Nearly 1500 people have a window inside my daily actions and thoughts by subscribing to my feed and following me on Twitter. Over a thousand can see updates on what I do through Facebook. There are Flickr photos from the events that I head to and I publish the cities that I will be travelling
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Yesterday I was leading a panel of "social media mavens" (as we were all described in the conference program) at OMMA Social in NYC to talk about social media campaigns that worked, those that didn’t and our tips and tricks for having more success with social media. We did thankfully make it through our entire
Continue reading »YouTube is everyone’s default location now for not only videos, but music, entertainment and just about any other piece of content you might have seen somewhere and want to see again. Copyright issues aside, having this global library of material available gave me an idea for an interesting social experiment the other day. What if
Continue reading »A few weeks ago the Philadelphia Inquirer and a few other local papers in the Philly area launched a very interesting mock advertising campaign for a new airline called "Derrie-Air" which was proposing the revolutionary new business model of charging air passengers based on the combined weight of their luggage and themselves. The site describes
Continue reading »I’m a blogger, so I’m used to my ideas getting taken and used – and I usually encourage it. One of the biggest learning curves I had to deal with when writing my book was that in the publishing world, you need written permission for just about any quote. That’s one of the reasons I
Continue reading »I have a former colleague of mine who left Ogilvy to focus on his own production company and create video projects. His group, g14 Productions, has just released a fantastic online video show worth checking out. It’s called The Reservation and features weekly episodes of 3-4 minutes of a show that is a cross between
Continue reading »Have you been to an unconference yet? For those who haven’t the "rules" are usually very different from what you might expect at most business events. The agenda is less structured. The powerpoint is less frequent. The lines between speakers and attendees are less defined. And the whole idea is to really have a collaboration
Continue reading »If I told you that you could buy a new book on Word of Mouth Marketing starting tomorrow on Amazon for $45 and that it was a quarter the size of a regular book and in paperback, what would you tell me? Now what if instead, I told you the entire book was available as
Continue reading »Early last week, I launched an interesting new campaign to promote Personality Not Included on the BzzAgent network through an area called the Frogpond. The Frogpond is a service offered by BzzAent where brands can submit some sort of online experience for BzzAgents to visit and evaluate. Unlike full BzzAgent campaigns, these campaigns are typically
Continue reading »If you have ever thought about declaring "email bankruptcy" just to get rid of all those old messages in your inbox – you may want to check out these two videos. The first is an often passed around presentation from Merlin Mann’s Google TechTalk last year about "Inbox Zero" which is a philosophy for clearing
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