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I am asked a lot of questions about things people see on the Interwebs. It seems like nearly every Thanksgiving, Christmas or Arbor Day a relative corners me at the dinner table to ask me about hashtags (or something along those lines). Sometimes they ask, “Why are we gathering for a meal on Arbor Day?” Digressing […]

Once a year or so someone comes out with the newer, better, faster, smarter social media platform. And it is often billed as – wait for it – a “Facebook killer!” People openly beg for invites. “Please, oh please! I have to get in!” You’d think they were teenagers at the Playboy mansion’s velvet rope […]

“I think being an ad guy doesn’t really exist anymore, does it?” That was the rhetorical answer Steven Grasse gave in my recent interview with him for ThisMoment in Content Marketing, a video series I’m doing for ThisMoment. He went on to say equally as revealing things, adding, “I mean nobody looks at advertising … no […]

Almost as if planned, my first post on the new blog stirred up some level of controversy. In the comments section of a Facebook share of the post by my friend Scott Monty, a fellow social media speaker/author type decided to declare my work a fraud, my content stolen and the topic stale. The person in question […]

Keep in mind this may be the first time I’ve used the word “azure” in a sentence. But that is the only apt description of the color of the Mediterranean, or, at least the Myrtoan Sea south and west of Athens, that lapped against the marbled shores I saw in October. On a day cruise […]

We’ve been talking about the ROI of Social Media, or its return on investment, almost as long as we’ve been talking about social media itself. My first deep dive into the discussion was in 2008 when it became the biggest topic of conversation at a PRSA International convention. At that point, I made an interesting […]