I don’t think Chevy quite knew what they were in for when they picked Nan Palmero, Mike D. Merrill and me for this Mancation promo. Apparently, we quite outdid ourselves not only in the creative department, but also the subsequent marketing/campaigning for the contest to win a second mancation. From the Chevy Texas blog:...
I recently took my first “Mancation” (no women, just guys, being manly, together), courtesy of Chevrolet. They selected me and three other Texas bloggers and gave us each a free hotel night, some spending money, and a Chevy vehicle for a week – in my case, a red 2011 Camaro convertible (awesome!). For my...
For our Chevy Mancation, I took my son, Jordan, and his best friend, Judd, to Port Aransas for a deep sea fishing trip out of Captain Kelly’s Deep Sea Headquarters. Our goal was simple: catch dinner. Mission accomplished! Fish on! He put up quite a fight: Judd and his 12-lb king mackerel: We left...
I’ve been looking forward to my upcoming Chevy Mancation – I’ll be taking my son and his best friend to Port Aransas for a deep sea fishing trip. I got our one-day fishing licenses last weekend, confirmed our hotel reservations, etc. And today, the pièce de résistance: a cherry red 2011 Camaro Convertible. The...
On the morning of 9/11/2001, I was attending a knowledge management conference in Reston, VA, a suburb of Washington, D.C. My wife and 7-year-old son were with me on the trip, planning on doing some sightseeing in D.C. while I was at the conference, and then we were taking the rest of the week...
For some inexplicable reason, my blog is producing malware errors in Google Chrome, saying that my site contains code from softwarecode.ru: The problem occurs: Only in Chrome – Firefox and IE are fine. Only on single posts, not the home page, categories, or pages (that I’ve seen). Intermittently – fairly consistently on certain...
