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Why boomers are hesitant to adopt social media tools for serious business

Friday, January 29th, 2010 Posted in Brand Awareness, Business, Culture, Social Media, Stuff, Technology | 5 Comments »

I ran out of coffee filters the other day. Not a big deal, I'll just hike to Kroger and get some more. When I got there, I saw the empty ... Read more..

How social media is failing social media… and business

Monday, November 2nd, 2009 Posted in Business, Social Media, Technology | 1 Comment »

The Center for Media Research sent out their email Research Brief today about how small business are not into social networks for leads. As a small businessman myself, I agree ... Read more..

Accuracy is important

Saturday, August 8th, 2009 Posted in Business, Culture, Technology | No Comments »

This past week, most news organizations reported that Twitter had been hacked on Thursday, causing wide-spread outage to the micro-blogging service. As it turns out, this was wholly inaccurate as ... Read more..

When anger turns into creativity

Thursday, July 9th, 2009 Posted in Brand Awareness, Culture, Social Media | 2 Comments »

This was published originally on TourneyCentral.com. Watch the video above. It was written and produced by Dave Carroll after an unpleasant experience with United Airlines. As of this writing, the video ... Read more..

How Twitter is going to drive up prices and reduce competition

Sunday, April 19th, 2009 Posted in Brand Awareness, Business, Social Media, Technology | 2 Comments »

Originally published on DogWalkBlog. I was reading this blog post by Leah Jones. It is a thoughtful look at what happened with the #amazonfail twitterstorm and makes a case for journalism. ... Read more..

Write me a blog post and then we’ll talk

Monday, January 19th, 2009 Posted in Brand Awareness, Social Media, Stuff, soccer | 2 Comments »

I just came back from a trade show for the soccer industry. Since we provide a soccer tournament management system to teams and tournaments with our TourneyCentral product, all ... Read more..

Another way to think about social media ROI

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008 Posted in Social Media, Stuff, Technology | 1 Comment »

  [caption id="attachment_200" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Alexander Graham Bell probably got impatient with business owners asking for an ROI on his telephone invention"][/caption] When was the last time you asked the phone company ... Read more..

The ROI of “social networking”

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008 Posted in Brand Awareness, Social Media, Stuff, Technology, soccer | No Comments »

[caption id="attachment_794" align="alignleft" width="250" caption="Soccer photo from the Mead Cup Soccer Tournament in Dayton, Ohio"][/caption]I received a panic email from a graphic designer at a local city magazine yesterday who ... Read more..

The definitive metaphor for social media

Sunday, December 7th, 2008 Posted in Social Media, Stuff | No Comments »

There has been a rush with the social media consultant groups and evangelists about how to define this thing called "social media." Chris Brogan defined it as cafe-shaped conversation. And ... Read more..