Do you remember the theme song to the TV show “It’s A Different World?”  I do (okay don’t look at me that way).   Well it’s going through my head right now.   “If we focus on our goals.  If you dish it we can take it, just remember you’ve been told. It’s a different world...

Well whaddya know – it’s been a Twitterful week so far. On Tuesday, Twitter announced some relatively major upgrades to its user interface, while almost simultaneously it became known that Twitter-centric celebrity John Mayer shut down his 3.7 million followers to go to…um.. Tumblr? ...

What were you doing on August 29th, 2005? I can certainly tell you what you weren’t doing. You weren’t answering the question “what’s happening?” on Twitter. And, unless you were in college, or part of a college network you  weren’t updating your status on Facebook. And you...

In the Star Trek universe – there’s a training exercise designed to test how a Starfleet Cadet will react to a no-win scenario.   The test involves a simulation where a civilian vessel called the Kobayashi Maru has been crippled.   Life support is low – and all aboard will surely die...

If you haven’t noticed, there’s been quite a bit of news about same-sex marriage over the last week.   Last Week, Target (and a few others) came under fire and call for a boycott after they donated $150,000 to the group MN Forward – which is running advertising for a Republican...

This week I head to Chicago for the Web Content 2010 Conference.  My talk is on Social Media Brand Management  (download my presentation and my little present for the attendees if you like). I always like to bring a little Chicago flavor with me when I speak there – so in this talk I’m...