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Archive for March, 2009

Run, Forrest.. RUN!!

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009 Posted in Stuff | 3 Comments »

Anyone who has seen the movie Forrest Gump can recall the break-through scene where Forrest is being chased by the bullies on bikes. Forrest still has his braces on and ... Read more..

Do you really want to get in a public fist-fight with a blind man?

Sunday, March 29th, 2009 Posted in Business, Culture, Technology | 4 Comments »

Seth Godin wrote about trade guilds the other day in this blog post. You should read the entire post, but the relevant part is: Whenever a trade association raises the barricades ... Read more..

Microsoft points out what you will settle for in this economy

Friday, March 27th, 2009 Posted in Brand Awareness, Culture, Technology | 2 Comments »

Watch this commercial. It takes Microsoft a while to figure out its place in the market (Windows, MSIE, I'm a PC) but when it gets there, it does ok. It finally ... Read more..

GerardMcLean.com now featured in Alltop.com

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 Posted in Business, Personal Branding, Social Media | 1 Comment »

Looks like I made the big time. Posted as a news release at my employer's web site. Gerard McLean, President/CEO of Rivershark, Inc. can now officially claim he "kicks ass" as ... Read more..

Your ads may be what tags you as a geezer

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009 Posted in Brand Awareness, Business, Social Media | 4 Comments »

Take a look at this ad from Intel that appeared in the Wall Street Journal on March 24, 2009. What do you see? Look closer as it will become very ... Read more..

The paradox of personal branding

Saturday, March 21st, 2009 Posted in Brand Awareness, Business, Personal Branding, Social Media | 1 Comment »

This week, I had a need to print a limited run of personalized white papers in color. I called my printer with whom I had been doing business for 20+ ... Read more..

Hiding in plain sight using Social Media

Thursday, March 19th, 2009 Posted in Brand Awareness, Social Media | No Comments »

The best place to hide sometimes, is in plain sight. Recently, Phil Van Peborgh made this comment on a blog post on AdAge.com entitled Social Media Playtime Is Over. There are ... Read more..

How far would client expectations push you?

Friday, March 13th, 2009 Posted in Culture, Technology | 1 Comment »

Let me quote first from the statement Bernard Madoff made in Federal Court as he pled guilty to 11 felonies. At that time, the country was in a recession and this ... Read more..

When you get services for free, who do you call when they break?

Friday, March 6th, 2009 Posted in Social Media, Technology | 3 Comments »

Recently, we had an episode with someone trying to crack into some scripts and highjack them and steal bandwidth. Long story, but the server load was going nuts sporadically and ... Read more..

Listen to the groundhog

Monday, March 2nd, 2009 Posted in Brand Awareness, Culture, Social Media | No Comments »

Originally published at: DogWalkBlog.com [caption id="attachment_1357" align="alignright" width="200" caption="Punxsutawney Phil being yanked from his comfy home by people who can\'t wait to know the future."][/caption]I love Groundhog's Day. It is a ... Read more..