29 January 2010 Comments

How to lose a new Twitter follower in 15 seconds

Thanks for using TrueTwit validation service. When you sent me the auto-DM saying that you wanted me to validate my existence as a carbon-based life form by deciphering a captcha, I begrudgingly did it because I was legitimately interested in following you. When you sent me the second auto-DM without even so much as an [...]

9 January 2010 Comments

What’s up, Overstock?

I decided to do some Christmas shopping with Overstock – after all, I was to get 8% cash back on my order through Bank of America’s Add It Up program. My parents had been asking for a digital picture frame so they could have up-to-date photos of our daughter their granddaughter cycling through at all hours [...]

19 November 2009 Comments

Social Media Marketers are worth more than $12/hour

I can’t wait for the day when Social Media Marketing is seen by organizations as a legitimate form of marketing by that requires a broader knowledgebase than how to use Facebook, Twitter, et cetera – that there *is* a lot of training involved and an awful lot of higher-level thought…
… which leads me to my [...]