Gone are the days of the long lunches and concepting over beers. I have accepted it. The new norm is “I need it tomorrow.” Or, “do you think you can have something by end of day?” No self preserving account executive uses the word “no” anymore. This leaves us creative types pulling more and more […]

Image by Rishi S via Flickr Why do people always say if you’ve had a particularly bad experience that you should “learn from it?” Do they really mean it? It’s not always possible to grow from something. Especially if that bad experience lasts longer than say five minutes. (I want to make it clear I’m […]

As an agency professional, I really enjoyed BlogWell. It provided a great insight into how social media efforts are viewed, integrated, and deployed by big brands. There was a lot of learning to be had from the individual presenters which I’ll go into in a later post. But there were a few 10,000-foot view take […]

Well, that blows. Really, it does. I know a lot of people just like you. After all, the economy is awful, so who would quit any job? Even if you’re severely overworked. There have been days, where I’ve felt just like you. Thankfully, it’s not persistent. Fortunately, my job is pretty diverse. Wasn’t always that […]

Image by danorbit. via Flickr The latest technology to get people all hot and bothered in mobile web marketing is augmented reality. Because the technology is so new we don’t require any creativity from the people employing the medium other than than just using it proficiently. This is going to change rapidly with all Web […]

You knew it would happen. An employee was gonna blow a gasket on Twitter. So now you’re thinking maybe this social media thing needs to be clamped down on. And just when it was starting to pay off too. Well did you plan for when the implosion happens? You’ve got a plan for workplace accidents, […]

The interwebs got me in touch with an old friend last week I had not talked to since I moved east. I picked up the phone and we picked up where we had left off – it was a great conversation. It was also connection worth renewing. But there are some people I see every […]

Warren G Harding ran for president for promising a “return to normalcy.” The word normalcy didn’t sound normal back then either. But his slogan did tap into the uncertainty and rapid change of the time. They’d just gone through a war in which the rules had changed thanks to a technological transformation. The whole country […]

I was talking with a group of social media folks about metrics the other day and it made me think of a famous quote by William Goldman, the Hollywood screenwriter “Nobody knows anything.” Goldman was talking about how nobody in Hollywood knows if a movie is going to do well. There are just so many […]

My first experience with BackNoise ever was three weeks ago at the New Media Atlanta conference. BackNoise is a website that allows people watching an event to provide a running commentary of what is happening. They can do it anonymously or, if they choose, comment using their name. What this provided was a window into […]