After a long week of client projects, writing, etc., what am I doing late Friday night? Goofing around on Twitter with friends. This… Prompted this… I love Bitstrips. I keep forgetting about it and don’t use it nearly as much as I should. If you’d like to learn more about it, check out my...
My mother was a piano bar musician. I grew up in a constant environment of music. On road trips, we actually song show tunes. We played word games…with song lyrics. My mother and I would go back and forth thinking of all the songs we could with, say, the word “flower” in it. For...
I had my attention called to this issue on Twitter today: It’s ludicrous that this even merits a blog post, but LinkedIn has so obfuscated the process that it takes a lot of digging to find it. If you just want the link, here it is: linkedin.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/linkedin.cfg/php/enduser/ask.php If you’d like to see how to...
A few weeks ago on Twitter, I heard about the Austin Makes a Book project, a book that will be crowdsourced for both content and funding. I’m already a published nonfiction author, but I’ve always wanted to have some of my poetry published as well, so this seemed like the perfect opportunity. If you’re...
Who says you have to have a royal treasury to live like a king? Here are some ideas for getting the royal treatment on a pauper's budget.
This is one of the cooler recommendations I’ve ever received: I’ve never thought of myself as edgy. Never actively tried to be edgy. Kind of cool that some people think I am. Sure beats being dull!
unmarketing: People on Twitter don’t care what you have to sell until they know you care about them. ScottAllen: @unmarketing I love you, man! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . Now...
This is what started it all… unmarketing: Sweet!! Doing a lunch seminar open to the public in Toronto on social media in March…. ScottAllen: @unmarketing How is social media in March different from social media the rest of the year? unmarketing: @ScottAllen son of a……. well played When I was in 5th grade,...
Sure, I stay up ’til all hours of the night sometimes. But I also don’t usually get started ‘til about 9:30 or 10:00 in the morning and am out of pocket for a couple of hours late afternoon. And I try not to work on Sundays. Here’s why: perrybelcher: What’s the biggest dream you...
