Archive for July, 2008

The Death of Marketing and Sales: Open Source

Friday, July 11th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | 3 Comments »

(hat tip to TechCrunchIT for the story) Recently Sun Microsystems announced the layoff of 1,000 employees (with the potential layoff of 2500) at their main headquarters, Menlo Park Campus, and employees in Colorado. According to TechCrunchIT's post, Sun will be ...

How to be Productive with Social Media!

Friday, July 11th, 2008 Posted in Marketing, social networking | 5 Comments »

Lifehacker had a great post where they interviewed social media expert, Steve Rubel. Steve had three steps to making social productive, I have outlined them below and added a couple of my own. Step 1: Set A North Star (Keep ...

Indiana Chamber Suing Christian Chamber

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Posted in Smaller Indiana | 1 Comment »

Oh the woes of networking groups. I am not quite sure how long this battle has been going on between the two chambers. I was alerted of the unfolding situation by the IBJ and a forum post in Smaller Indiana. Excerpt from ...

Screw OpenID. Screw It.

Monday, July 7th, 2008 Posted in Marketing, Word-of-Mouth, social networking | 2 Comments »

I am impatient. I am a millennial that gets pissed off when something takes longer than 5 minutes to figure out. You can call me an idiot. You can call me an OPENID hater. That's fine because, at the moment, it's true. Whether ...

New Zealand Takes On YouTube.

Sunday, July 6th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

We have been talking extensively on Smaller Indiana about using social media in the political forum. Mashable had a great write up about New Zealand using the YouTube platform to promote their soon to be election for the 49th New ...

Explaining Social Media. Brilliant!

Sunday, July 6th, 2008 Posted in social networking | 2 Comments »

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Microblogging=Money? Assetbar Thinks So.

Sunday, July 6th, 2008 Posted in Advertising, Marketing, Viral Marketing, social networking | 1 Comment »

Major props to Louis Gray for cluing me into a new development in the world of making money on the Internet. In his post titled Assetbar Launches Fanflow for Premium Messaging and Content, Gray talks about a new ...

Blog Away Mahmoud Admadinejad.

Saturday, July 5th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

I trust everyone had an excellent 4th of July! After enjoying a robust display of fireworks in the wonderful city of Peru, Indiana I decided to sit down and hit up Google Reader for an RSS update. Mashable had a great ...

Friends Review of Wall-E

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Thanks to Collin Trent for this excellent review of Wall-E. "First, I didn’t fall asleep in the theater. You all know this is an accomplishment for me. The movie started at 9:00 PM, so it wasn’t exactly an ...

A Picture is Worth $10,000? Give me a Break, McCain.

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

I am sitting here drinking coffee, watching Channel 6 News, and finishing up a blog post. I am having a pleasant morning, thank you for asking! Unfortunately, now I am a little upset because of a picture worth (brace ...