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A top exec at one of Chicago’s biggest advertising agencies recently jumped to his death from a hotel roof here in Chicago. He was highly visible in the industry and had been frequently pilloried by bloggers covering the advertising world. New York Times: “We’re certainly used to criticism in the agency business,” said Nina DiSesa, […]

We’ve all done that cloying trust-fall activity where you pretend like you trust your fellow co-workers enough to let them catch you as you fall backwards. I’ve always thought that maybe if there was less time spent doing trite exercises and more time investigating why co-workers don’t trust eachother it would make the workplace work […]

I think if I could cook down the entire Internet to on sentence it would be: There’s always a bigger freak than you. No matter how much you love scrapbooking or American Idol or UFC, there is someone out there online that knows all that you do – and just a little bit more (and […]

Several weeks ago I was onsite in San Francisco with one of the big Web 2.0 companies. We were talking about how they were re-centering their business around their users after spending the previous year focused more on product development. They realized that a rabid userbase is a key component of the success of any […]

Also add to your calendar: I’ll be presenting as part of the Microsoft Small Business Summit via satellite telecast. Details…

Not sure what this whole ‘social media’ nutty-ness is about? Flummoxed over Facebook? Distraught over Digg? Podcasting maven Leesa Barnes has put together a gaggle of experts to take you on a guided tour of the internet marketing landscape exploring topics like social bookmarking, social networks, virtual worlds, podcasting, blogging, branding – the whole shebang! […]

The market is telling them what it wants – they’ll continue to not listen: China Mobile, the No. 1 cell company in China, claims there are 400,000 unlocked iPhones running on its network. That’s more than 10 percent of the 3.7 million Steve Jobs announced Apple had shipped through mid-January.

Hmm. Take action. That sounds like one more thing to do. Just what you don’t want – another thing to be added to your ever-growing “to do” list. But, this isn’t what you think. Vinny Goldsmith, writing on SEOMOZ, penned a great article entitled, Give Your Readers Something To Do. It’s about writing content that […]

Andrew of Astereostudio in his Revive blog takes a look at WordPress as more than just a blog – using it as a CMS or content management system.  Take a look at some the creative ideas he puts forth on how people are taking this platform one step beyond ….  As I always say – […]

Nitin Pai over at Tech Tracer 2.0 posted a fantastic article about all the things you can do within Google Search. Let’s say you want to find a file by type – DOC, PDF or PPT. It’s as easy as typing in the subject of what you’re looking for followed by filetype: doc Example: blogging […]