Tag Archives: change

Thank You for Blogging about International Medical Corps!

The International Medical Corps and my team have been working on winning $1.5 Million dollars through American Express’ Members Project. IMC needs to be in the top 5 in order to win. Please check out the Member Project page, Saving the Lives of Malnourished Children, and then please vote.  I would like to personally thank […]

Poll: How Much Do You Need to Live Comfortably?

$20,000/yr

$40,000/year

$80,000/year

$160,000/year

$320,000/year

$640,000/year

Above $1,000,000/year

More Money Doesn’t Hurt Happiness

“Although a large body of research does show that people become happier as they move from being very poor to lower middle class, after this point the impact of income on happiness is much weaker. Think of someone who makes $100,000 one year and $110,000 the next—do we really expect this additional income to suddenly […]

Sarah Palin is New Feminism According to Camille Paglia

I would have never guessed that Camille Paglia would be in awe of Sara Palin or perceive her as follows, “Conservative though she may be, I felt that Palin represented an explosion of a brand new style of muscular American feminism. At her startling debut on that day, she was combining male and female qualities […]

Always Remember the 95 Theses of the Cluetrain Manifesto

Markets are conversations.
Markets consist of human beings, not demographic sectors.
Conversations among human beings sound human. They are conducted in a human voice.
Whether delivering information, opinions, perspectives, dissenting arguments or humorous asides, the human voice is typically open, natural, uncontrived. […]

What Motivated You to Learn About Social Media?

Leo Bottary, SVP at Mullen, asked a pretty great question over on LinkedIn, What motivated you to learn about social media?  I took a stab at answering in my own way (via Marketing Conversation):
I came to social media PR the other way around. I have been online since the world of the bulletin board systems […]

I Actually Am “That Guy”

According to an online quiz on Details, “Are Your That Guy,” I am totally that guy: a total douchebag, apparently.

1 You initiate fist bumps.
Yes
No
Someone told me that high-fives are passe so I have replaced them with bumps and regular, manly, handshakes.
2 You order foreign dishes in an accent.
Yes
No
I ask for foreign dishes, yes, properly. If […]

Is There a Danger in Brand Barack Obama?

There are so many amazing things about the Obama campaign — including incomparable media savvy. Douglas Rushkoff wrote an insightful post about “brand Obama” that I consider to be one of the reasons why I supported Hillary Clinton — turning America around from the mess left by the Bush White House is going to be […]

The Final Stretch of Sharp’s Life Changing Box Game

Don’t forget — there are two more prizes coming up! One big one and one really big one — please add the app, play the game, and then check out the Facebook Group and the Facebook Page! The game ends on July 14th!

Three Mistakes PR Folks Make Pitching Bloggers

Krishna De just wrote an article called How Not To Pitch A Blogger and it is brilliant and useful — “here are three of the many mistakes they made in the pitch:”

there was no personal connection in the email to me about why the story may be of interest to me and my readers
they did […]