Hello everyone. The hiatus is over.
I have purposefully not updated my blog for the past couple months because I was working through a career transition. Well, the transition is no longer.
In July 2010, I accepted a position with the Tonkin Family of Dealerships in Portland, Oregon. For those of you unfamiliar with this [...]
My Follow Friday list is below for the most awesomest people you need to start following.
As always, you can review my complete list of Follow Friday Folk on my Follow Friday Twitter List.
@bluetoolcrew @searscares: Sears Holdings Corporation is the lone Follow Friday standout for me this week. More specifically, their Sears brand. I experienced some [...]
Let go of the “Post Every Day” blogging mantra.
Bloggers have argued relentlessly about whether to post every day or not. As Lisa Barone points out, this is so Web 1.0.
Bloggers believing (or suggesting) that you must post every day usually follow Chris Brogan and Seth Godin religiously. These bloggers are trying to create their blog [...]
Background
Ryan Landgraff is my guest this week discussing fatherhood, manhood and proper financial stewardship.
I met Ryan in the twitterverse. We reviewed each other’s posts periodically and found a common ground in the fatherhood arena. I forget who reached out to who, but nonetheless, we connected. Ryan requested a connection through Skype so we could “met” [...]
I wrote a post discussing the emergence of social media and mobile technologies in the automotive industry at DrivingSales. The post discussed a recent automotive digital marketing conference initially focused on transitioning the dealership of today into the future; however, the conference took a “follow-the-shiny-object” tone.
Here’s the first little bit:
The internet community at large is [...]
To be Private or Not? That is the Question.
I wanted to share my thoughts with you regarding the recent New Media Cincinnati event I attended this past Saturday. The topic of the event was Social Media Privacy. Three individuals shared their experiences and opinions regarding online privacy. I shared my pre-discussion thoughts and my post-discussion [...]
Communication is the imparting or interchange of thoughts, opinions, or information by speech, writing or signs. Communication is something imparted, interchanged or transmitted. (Both definitions were courtesy of Dictionary.com)
Communication involves a speaker and a listener. Communication is a two-way mutually beneficial exchange at its most basic level.
How are you communicating? Are you permitting your communication [...]