Category Archives: Social Media

This social world.

The Most Interesting Thing Ever

And you can’t see it. What if that most interesting thing ever were the internet, or whatever it is that you were trying to find on the internet today? This censorship would be the reality. SOPA and PIPA are two … Continue reading

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Found it! The Nicest Place On The Internet

Found it. thenicestplaceontheinter.net/

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The Art of Social Design

Check out the deck that Leslie and I presented at Intel’s “Be Social” conference last week. It’s a great deck that addresses some big principles that it’s important to remind yourself on while working with social design. At almost 25,000 … Continue reading

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You Should Know About Gamification & Jesse Schnell

You should undertand why the gamification of our reality is important – something to be aware of to both leverage it to your benefit as well as our societal benefit, and also to protect yourself against its potential to manipulate you. In any case, Jesse Schnell is the guy to listen to… Continue reading

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Snackable Content – Desiging for Social Media

Ever late to my own party, I wanted to post the deck that Jesse and I presented at the Nonick Conference in Bilbao a couple of weeks ago. Here’s the blog post about it on the JESS3 blog. It’s already … Continue reading

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New Headshot Illustration

This is going to be my headshot for a new Eloqua social media playbook coming out soon. Excited!
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Bilbao Bound

I’ll be heading to Bilbao to speak at the Nonick Conference next week. Jesse Thomas and I will be representing JESS3 and speaking about the importance of social objects and storytelling in successful social media strategies. Looking forward to jamon, … Continue reading

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Joe Hewitt, Meta Developer – Leaving Facebook

Joe Hewitt leaving Facebook may be one of the best things to happen to HTML5 in a long time. He’s taking off to return to his roots (as in Firebug) in order to focus on solving problems for developers working … Continue reading

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Color Me In – Let’s See Where This Goes

Color, the new geo-social-media-sharing app is being underrated by all the haters. I’m all for some good hilarious snark like the much lauded review of the app on iTunes. But we’re all forgetting that just because something does happen to … Continue reading

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Matt The Electrician Kickstarter – Support Now!

I bet you keep saying to yourselves that you want to get in on that whole new Kickstarter trend where artists and makers of all types crowdsource the funding of their projects. Sometimes they’re projects that would never otherwise be … Continue reading

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YouTube Playlist – Fun For Playing at Parties

I realized that with Google TV a great thing to do for the ambiance at parties is to create a YouTube Playlist to play in the background with the sound off. Sometimes it was fun to have old movies playing … Continue reading

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Anander Mol, Anander Veig

Anander Mol poses the question of what it means to be Jewish today. How should things change in this new time, and what is our new way? This is an important question not just for Jews in the world, but for all people in the world. For me the Maccabeats pose this question “Isn’t that hilarious?” To which I would have to answer, “No. It’s cute.” Continue reading

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You Can Be Uncool And Successful @ Social Media

Most people reading Jay Baer’s blog are ahead of the curve. They probably know who Brian Solis is and have quoted Seth Godin to their friends. But many brands aren’t marketing to these people – they’re marketing to target demographics that are decidedly in the majority – by definition not early adopters or social media elites. And the question is where do *these* people see the lines between cool and uncool, relevant and irrelevant, interesting and uninteresting. Continue reading

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Social Graph. Interest Graph. Para Graph.

As much as I hear people say that these graphs are so completely different from one another I just don’t think that difference has truly matured enough to be understood in an effective way yet. Continue reading

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Craplogo – the supnah edition

I couldn’t resist. I just had to see what my logo would look like if I’d paid hundreds of thousands of dollars (at minimum) to some big branding agency to remake me… Continue reading

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