A Face from the past…and present

A question from my sister yesterday about how I use Facebook got me thinking.
I guess I’ve been on Facebook for almost a year. I don’t remember when I joined, and I’m not interested enough to go back and look it up.
It’s not what I expected when I joined. It’s more like a series of big [...]

Randomness

Not much blogging going on this week.  I hurt my back and am pretty crabby and don’t feel like doing much.  But here are a few random things I found interesting in the last few days:
1. Very funny Facebook parody on YouTube:

2. For you Snuggie fans, here’s a parody from YouTube. [...]

Super waste of money

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
This photo has absolutely nothing to do with this blog post.  But we got our picture taken at church on Sunday, and I wanted to post it, and hey, this is my blog, so I can do what I want. I love the expression on David’s face.
No, this blog post is about the Super Bowl.  [...]

Random Friday

I’ve run out of variations on “odds and ends”, so I had to come up with another title.
1. Interesting article by David Pogue on twitter. (I’m getting really good at this live links thing, aren’t I? Huh?…Huh?) 
2. Another great post from Bob Hoffman, the Ad Contrarian, on social media and its potential for marketing. Any marketer who reads [...]

Odder ends

1. Last week, Governor Blagojevich compared his arrest to the attack on Pearl Harbor, and said that the whole thing is part of a conspiracy on the part of Illinois lawmakers to raise taxes.  Today, he said that he thought about selecting Oprah to fill Obama’s senate seat.  Hey, why not throw in Cardinal George, while [...]

Twittering the time away

I still can’t figure out Twitter.  I mean, I know how to use it.  It’s pretty simple.  It’s social instant messaging using a 140 characters or less.  The technical description for it is “micro-blogging”, where people send messages to their “followers”.  You sign up to follow people, and then people sign up to follow you, [...]

Not so lucky jeans

I get really frustrated with on-line retailers who have no understanding of how this whole Web thing works.  I won’t name the retailer (hint, hint: read the title of this post. ) I was buying jeans for Tim for Christmas  (he knows he’s getting them, so this is giving away nothing.)  I had a really frustrating [...]

This is why I buy generic ibuprofen

No, not really.  But the recent Motrin experience is a great illustration of the power of social media.  In case you haven’t heard, Motrin started running this ad on their Web site on Friday:

By Saturday morning, I started getting Tweets about the uproar it was creating on mommy blogs and in social networking [...]

Regrets only

How would you answer the question, “What is your biggest regret?”

What’s the purpose of Twitter?

Before I write about Twitter, I have to admit that I’m breaking the cardinal rule of blogging, which is fugure out what your angle is before you start your blog. Is it a professional blog or a personal blog? Who’s your target audience?  Andy Sernovitz, word-of-mouth marketing guru, would be horrified, because I don’t know [...]