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Spammed by my local colleagues

This is in reply to a blog post by Judy Dunn at Cat’s Eye Marketing regarding the folly of spam as a marketing tool for small business – or most businesses for that matter. You won’t find any controversy between us though; I agree with her. I’m just building on her position. Spam in sheep’s…

Free Twitter Background Donation for a “Deserving” Organization

Are you a non-profit, not-for-profit, charity, community organization or cause that desires more exposure, new outreach ideas and more networking opportunities? You may or may not be aware of so-called social media, where you have the opportunity to make your voice heard, reach new people, and learn from a larger community. One such social media…

Real Creativity, or My Wife’s Clever Christmas Idea

This year, this Christmas, cash flow is a problem. But that’s another story, and shortage of cash is just one aspect of a less-than-ideal Christmas for us. The other is that we never quite feel relaxed around the holidays. Speaking for myself, there’s always anxiety about gift-giving. An avid non-shopper (living in Paramus, NJ, the…

Experimenting with another blog (gasp!)

Posterous.com is (from my lack of real research) a very new blogging-like platform that I can email into, and I like that. Perhaps something similar can be done with WordPress? I dunno. But there’s something about it I like, perhaps the spontaneity and simplicity and that I don’t have to host it and update it…

Visual brand vigilance

You as a businessperson may speculate that only a designer would care about such [insignificant] details as the alignment of elements or the indents and paragraph spacing on the company’s letterhead. Maybe you’re right. If that’s true, I wonder what else are you not caring about? What other customer, industry and media touch points are you simply leaving to chance?

Networking simplified and LinkedIn Answers

I’ve been quoted on this page (along with 25 other people) regarding networking advice. This results from a LinkedIn question for which I was one of many respondents. Julius at EventManagerBlog, who originally posted the question, then published his favorites pretty much all of them. Mine was one of the shortest, non-bulleted answers, and reflects…

What is this man doing?

If you know what he’s doing, I may be able to guess your profession and even your age…

Animated Infographic Excellence

Thanks to a mention in Graphic Design USA, I just enjoyed a few short web films from the reel of production company Superfad. Turns out I’ve seen at least one of their 3D animated tv commercials, for Playstation, in the last year. These three are quite different, are for Sprint, and really have me infatuated…

What to blog about?

First of all, thanks for visiting. We both know there’s lots to read on the web, lots of outstanding and very focused blogs, and all sorts of valuable web content – articles, white papers, case studies, press releases… and let’s not forget good old-fashioned news. So you honor me with your attention. I’m here to…

Hand Crafted Confessions

My wife Jennifer (who I really should have write the beginning of this post, at least) returned this week from a few days’ vacation in Baltimore, with our son Ian. Aside from the delicious blue crabs, her life-changing hot & spicy chocolate gelato, and the totally satisfying U2 Imax movie, she was most vocal about…