Ponytail. Or not.
Conflicted at the moment. The four years I've spent in coffee has helped produce a different guy. One of those old-hippie-ish balding dudes with a grey-brown six-inch ponytail. Quite a difference...
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Let me get this out of the way first: I lopped it off. Turns out I really didn't even have to rationalize the haircut. It's just one less complication in life. Can't tell you how many times I've...
View ArticleDoes Your Event Own Its Twitter ID?
I was exchanging tweets with an old colleague about using Twitter for her upcoming show. I noticed that her show's name (and logical variants, like <showname year>) have not been claimed.A...
View ArticleFriend or Blogger or Both?
Was just looking at this Mintel report on Word of Mouth (WoM). Mintel's interpretation is that traditional WoM (using actual lips and voice) beats online WoM by a large margin.But when I read it, I...
View ArticleHad to check the calendar to make sure it was still 2009
Why are we still talking about social media as if it were something new and mysterious?Social media applications are neither Godsends nor the coming apocalypse for face-to-face meetings. They are...
View ArticleThe small print...
You can tell I don't spend much time on this blog because it wasn't until this morning that I noticed when I open TSMR on Firefox, it only takes up about 1/2 of the screen and the font size looks like...
View ArticleTSMI.org is history
11 years ago I had an idea to develop an internet portal (portals were hot back then - remember VerticalNet?) for the trade show industry. The site was called TSMI for Trade Show Marketing Institute...
View ArticleA Suitable Replacement
The other day I actually applied for a contract job managing social media and marketing for an exhibit supplier. It's been a rough couple of years for the coffeehouse and we could really use an influx...
View ArticleAnother Alternative to TSMR
Hey, before you start cleaning out your Google Reader feeds and finding a new feed reader, thought y'all might be interested in checking this blog out:Tradeshow Media InstituteThis is a 'curated' blog...
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The MeetingPool. Is It Finally Safe to Go Swimming in the Deep End?
So I'm reading this morning's Twitter backlog and I see that Seth Godin is noting the milestone of his reaching 5000 blog posts.There's a pretty good chance I've been blogging longer than Seth. It's...
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