At this time of year, I always take time to reflect. Not on specifics, necessarily, but on themes. Certain themes follow me through the months, years and decades of my life. Some themes are just beginning, some are chronic. I suspect my “terminal” themes will continue to dog me as long as I reflect on [...]

This post isn’t exactly ‘publish or perish,’ but it is definitely born of a push to publish. It’s been weeks since my last confession here. I’m hoping an explanatory post will help those who’ve: Been awaiting a response to an overdue email from me Gotten used to a certain rhythm of tweets Been wondering why I’m almost [...]

There’s a kerfuffle brewing about censorship at eMusic over on TechDirt, which covered a very stupid move by eMusic - editing people’s comments on their blog post. “We just wrote about the PR nightmare facing eMusic for announcing both a price increase and its first major record label signing at the same time — leading many [...]

When I was at Marqui, we transformed a technology-centric brand to a prospect-centric brand quite successfully. I inherited a technical software company look in Maestro CMS, a regional Canadian software company looking to reinvent itself. The goal of the new executive team was to create the “salesforce.com” for marketers in Marqui. Our product would help marketers [...]

People are starting to wonder how they might get the word out about the social media surrounding events these days. For example, attendees who Tweet would surely want to learn what the hashtag for an event might be. I was privy to an email from the folks running the recent SOCAP conference last month that I [...]