Update 5/11/11: Before you use Formulists please read my update and the comments at the bottom of this post. Call it a 2011 New Years Resolution if you must but one of my goals for this year is to do a better job of managing my Twitter feed. Â I’m trying […]
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Google has published a facial recognition patent that might be used to auto-tag people across the web.  Auto-tagging, feature recognition, and 3D modeling are far from new concepts so it seems like Google is going to rush to beat Facebook to the punch.  I suspect that in five years you’ll be […]
I just got home from an interesting session of FutureM Boston “Future of Digital Strategy†session and wanted to type out some notes while the ideas are fresh in my head. Quick takeaway; The role of marketing is changing. Analytics are key. 2010 was year of mobile. 2011 is year […]
When Yelp originally added the geo “check in†feature, I was very excited. I love Yelp and their iPhone app so I immediately put my Foursquare account on hold to focus on learning the ins-and-outs of Yelp. It was a very polished app but I made the assumption that the […]
Increasingly I’m finding that I’m spending more time on Twitter and less time on my blog and I suspect I’m far from the only one. Blogs are great as a repository of information or in depth research but, for me, Twitter has become a much more efficient method of reading […]
By this point it should be pretty obvious that I love the outdoors and if you haven’t checked, about half of the people I follow are somehow related to outdoor-oriented sports.  Blending my passions of the outdoor industry and social media is amazing; since I can’t be outside 100% of […]
Sorry posting has been light; between the new baby, vacation, training, and Wicked Philanthropy, time has been sparse. Here is a video that I did want to share: John Battelle does make a good point in regard to the statement, “Social Media isn’t a fad, it’s a fundamental shift in […]
This is an absolutely terrific piece on the historic impact of social media by NYU professor Clay Shirkly. It’s certainly easy to forget about the power of social media when we take it for granted and use it for ‘poking’, and posting pictures of, friends. Shirkly states that, “The moment […]