Earlier this week I saw the typical “down with thieves” discussion going on via Twitter regarding peer to peer music and film sharing and other activities that fall under the catch-all header of piracy. I would disagree with the general premise that all piracy is bad for your bottom line, however. There is always going [...]

I recently had an off-line discussion about my email communication style lately. I’m not sure why the thoughts and emotional intentions behind the emails I send when I’m in a rush don’t translate well to the page in recent weeks, but they don’t. So, while I would not have put “email tone” anywhere near my [...]

Another person who has helped me a great deal is Jim Keenan. He is the consummate sales person, yet he manages to be in his field, and get the results he does, without being smarmy, or making people angry. He’s a good listener, he thinks out of the box, he isn’t afraid to take risks, [...]

Michelle (@chelpixie) is a smart, kind and giving person. More importantly (well, to me anyway), she keeps me where I need to be (she recently came on board to help handle speaking gigs and scheduling things with me, and she is amazing). She is a great example of turning your life into what you always [...]

I’ve decided to add a feature to this blog that lets me give other people the attention they deserve. We don’t do this in a vacuum, and there are some great thought leaders in a variety of spaces that touch my life, and teach me things. One of my inspirations in Tara Hunt, author of [...]

Monday I was on a panel at the VRMS Emerging Marketing Technology Summit in Boston. My fellow panelists (Suzi Craig of Fathom and Steve Ustaris of Studiocom) and our moderator (Brian Costello of Red Plum) and I attacked the perils and opportunities of social media as it related to the attendees during our hour long [...]

This month’s Social Media Breakfast is brought to you by Magnitude Media, DimDim and the Manchester City Library. You already know about Uptown Uncorked, since we are the breakfast maestro each month, and DimDim, who handles the live casting of the breakfasts. Let me tell you a bit about the Manchester City Library: The Manchester [...]

After reading Chris Brogan’s post on interruptive communication today, and responding in the video below on Utterli, I started percolating on the concept. I love when something simple gets my brain cranking, don’t you? Here is the link to Chris’s post, the video is embedded below, and after that are my thoughts as they strayed [...]

This is a bit of a personal post for this blog, but I thought my network may have access to a better solution than I could find on my own. I am a book lover. A serious book lover. I have hundreds and hundreds of books. I adore the written word. I will most likely [...]