As I've mentioned before, I am currently working on a personal website project. While I am not ready to share any real specific information about the project, I do want to discuss the basic premise of the project which is to create an online community for a specific niche that I am passionate about. I've been doing some research on online communities and thought that it would be a great topic for a blog post. In addition to sharing my thoughts on … [Read more...]

To say that I am a writer would definitely be an overstatement. Writing is a craft that I have never been very good at. Words just do not seem to flow out of me as they do others. I've worked with several extremely talented writers over the course of my career and have always been in awe of how easy writing came to them. As I've become more and more interested in blogging over the course of the last several months, I have a renewed interest in … [Read more...]

Over the past several months, I've noticed an interesting phenomenon. Well, it's maybe not so much a phenomenon as it is an occurrence I've been noticing. With the extremely rapid growth of social media over the last few years, I've noticed many people claiming to be "experts" in this field. I also see many managers claiming to or acting as if they "get" interactive marketing and social media. When in reality, I don't believe they do "get it" at … [Read more...]