On Thursday of this week, Crystal Peterson, Doe-Anderson’s senior vice-president for human resources, and I will give a talk to the Louisville Advertising Federation called, “I See Your Profile: Your Online Life Has Windows.” The talk is to illustrate to young advertising professionals that they should be participating in social media, but they should also [...]

I have a bone to pick with my social media and marketing brethren. Stop making fun of people because they’re on MySpace. It’s unbecoming and shows that you’re so overwhelmed with your own smarts that you’re stupid. It’s the same smugness some Mac users generate despite the fact their beloved, intuitive machines account for a [...]

Lee Odden got me thinking. (I bet I’m not the first person to say that.)
Lee’s post and poll at Top Rank Blog Sunday offered up the latest usage statistics for MySpace and Facebook. MySpace is still top dog. According to Nielsen Online, it had 40 million more users than Facebook in December. Lee then offered [...]

Valeria Maltoni shared an interesting video on Conversation Agent today that got me riled up. I started to comment on her post and then realized the length of my response might shut down her servers. So she gets credit, I’m copying and pasting all this there, but I wanted to share the video and my [...]

No one really knows why birds migrate. Scientists can conjecture all they want, but until a Canadian goose pipes up and says, “Yeah, it’s because of food and a safe place to breed,” we can only guess. If that actually happens, my bet is migratory patterns will be the least of our worries.
Like birds, the [...]