Holding A Big Meeting? Pick A Venue That Doesn’t Suck

This week our start-up presented at TechCrunch Disrupt, a conference about how emerging technologies and bootstrapping start-ups are disrupting the media business. It was held at 570 Washington Street (pictured here via Google Streetmaps), a former Merrill Lynch data center in New York City’s far West Village.… Read the rest

Getting Rid Of The Sludge & Greasing The Skids

I use this blog not only to organize and share my thinking, but to experiment with various Web software services — typically plugins and small code embeds. An unintended consequence of a few recent updates resulted in very slow page download speeds — sometimes up to 13 seconds.… Read the rest

Be More Effective Through Storytelling

New Scientist cites Chao Lu of China, who was able to recite 67,890 digits of pi from memory in 2005, making him a world memory champion. I found the method used by memory champions interesting:

Many of them use a mnemonic method. Before starting to memorize a number, they associate a person or object with each four-digit number from 0000 to 9999.

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Search Marketers Poised To Dominate Exploding Growth Of Social Media Advertising

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There probably isn’t a single advertising or marketing communications agency today that hasn’t checked the box on “social media marketing.” Can you think of one that hasn’t? No? Didn’t think so.

With so many agency disciplines and the absence of meaningful advertising platforms on the social networks, most agencies have been building social-media marketing (SMM) capabilities around “earned media” tactics.… Read the rest