In case you haven’t noticed this entire website has been completely reworked and redesigned thanks to my friends at Blue Sail Creative; the same folks that did the new website for my company Chess Media Group. I’m very excited with the new look and feel
As many of you may know, traveling is among one of my greatest passions (yes and chess as well). I travel quite frequently both domestically and internationally and usually share my travel photos and experiences with people on Flickr, Twitter, and Facebook. I decided that
Over at Chess Media Group we’ve brainstorming steps that companies and consultancies need to take together in order to really be able to create a social business. We’ve developed what we consider to be a pretty solid social business process that is broken down into
If you missed my keynote presentation on social media ROI from this afternoon during social media tools week, I put it up on slideshare. It’s also embedded below: Social Media ROI Presentation
We’ve all heard the saying right? “Don’t hate the player, hate the game.” Usually this phrase in uttered in a different context (I hope you know what I’m talking about) but just work with me on this. Try to look at this from a social
From November 16-21st the folks over at the social media academy are hosting an online conference called “tools week.” The conference is bringing together folks from various aspects of the social media space to address things such as best practices, strategies, and measurement. The entire
Recently Forrester released a report estimating the 2009 interactive budgets for various industries, the estimate puts the total interactive budget at under $30 million. Take a moment to look at the graph below. There are a few things to note form this graph: Consumer goods
I came across two posts today that I wanted to share with you. The first one is by Al Ries called “Social Media Not the Answer for Weak Brands,” and the second post is called “When Big Brands SHOULDN’T Listen to Their Customers.” Both of
The internet is really a funny place isn’t it? Where else can you find your next spouse while simultaneously looking at images of funny cats? The internet is pretty amazing and when used properly it can help you in an infinite number ways, however the
My girlfriend Kacie emailed me an interesting story by Jack London called “What Life Means to Me.” If you haven’t read it yet then I highly recommend you do so. I’m not going to review or interpret the story but I did want to call
