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The Social Media Tsunami

1. September 2010

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My friend Mike Singleton just coined a new phrase which I like which happens after you meet someone for the first time, or correspond with them online.  It represents the full monty of online connections that can occur.  These usually happen in fast succession resulting in an avalanche of connection options coming from one person [...]

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Institutional Knowledge

31. August 2010

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Within any workforce there are new workers and old workers. This is not an age debate and when I refer to new worker I mean new to the company and old workers as been there awhile. They say you can master a job or at least hit your stride after 18 months. So what does [...]

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Retargeting? Yes please.

19. July 2010

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While browsing the web today I was hit by a banner ad powered by Criteo for Zappos.  They are using my previous browsing history to target Zappos products I may be interested in.  This technology, called retargeting, has been around for a while but I have never been presented with a link at the bottom [...]

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Paid Search FTW

5. April 2010

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Image by naughty architect via Flickr Over the weekend I was out on Long Island and in need of a home service provider, specifically an exterminator. I setup an appointment and quickly realized my problem was “wildlife” and not “vermin” and needed a new provider. I was told to check the “phone book” and look [...]

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Behavior Generated Content

9. March 2010

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Behavior generated content is the by product, or data exhaust(as I like to call it), or using a product or service the way you normally would only now some data is collected in the background. As my friend Mike Singleton’s article points out this activity is being captured by services like Foursquare (USV is an [...]

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Advice from SXSW Pros

8. March 2010

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I have never been to SXSW, but excited to head down this year for SXSW 2010. In preparation for my time in Austin I polled a few friends to get their advice and thought I would share it here. Thanks for taking the time to write your thoughts – and hope this is helpful to [...]

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Working in the Cloud

3. March 2010

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For the past few months I have been looking into how to best migrate off of Microsoft Exchange and onto Google Apps. The first step in that process was to determine the needs of everyone that would be using the new mail system and how they differed from doing things before. The second step was [...]

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Social Network URLs – the future of advertising?

23. February 2010

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I have been watching a lot of the Olympics and loving it. One thing I have noticed as I watch in real time is a growing trend of brands using social network URLs instead of their own. Below are examples from Uniball and Toyota. I remember seeing another for an upcoming movie but I forgot [...]

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NY Clothing Drive

1. February 2010

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Everyone has extra stuff to clean out of their closet, but no easy way to donate the bags of clothes. For that reason my friend David Fraga and I organized the New York Clothing Drive, where we come pick up your old items for free in the NY metro area. It is a simple idea [...]

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Start Today

30. December 2009

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A lot of folks are providing top ten lists for the year and even the decade. I am skipping those on my blog and ending off the year a simple statement; start today. You don’t need a resolution, a mission statement, or the perfect set of people to accomplish what you want to do. You [...]

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