Over the past year I have been serv­ing the Day­ton chap­ter of the Amer­i­can Mar­ket­ing Asso­ci­a­tion as Vice Pres­i­dent of Mar­ket­ing Com­mu­ni­ca­tions. One of the first things I did was cre­ate the Day­ton AMA blog site, mak­ing the Day­ton AMA one of the first to join the blo­gos­phere. The site has been very suc­cess­ful, and …read more

RSS, RSS, always with the RSS… NBC is on the RSS train with their cov­er­age of the Olympics. You can obtain a news­feed for any and every event in the win­ter olympics. WHAT??? NBC will auto­mat­i­cally tell you what is hap­pen­ing, when it hap­pens, with­out telling you about a bunch of sports you could care …read more

Ear­lier this week I posted about a study that showed how dif­fi­cult it can be for peo­ple to detect sar­casm in an e-mail mes­sage. I was reminded of this fact this morn­ing when lis­ten­ing to NPR’s Morn­ing Edi­tion. The story, which is linked to below, was about for­mer FEMA direc­tor Michael Brown, and his role …read more

Fol­low­ing my rant about “a la carte cable” I offer today’s Fri­day Fun Poll. Some would say that what you watch on tele­vi­sion mir­rors who you are as a per­son. If that is so, can you be described by a group­ing of chan­nels? Choose the group­ing of net­works that most closely resem­bles you as a …read more

I love to watch tele­vi­sion. I can recite lines from decades of shows, tell you the names of obscure actors, and out­line vir­tu­ally every episode of Cheers given a quick hint of the episode in ques­tion. That being said the fol­low­ing may come as a shock. I do not have cable tele­vi­sion. (or sat­telite, or …read more

For most of you, your home is your largest invest­ment.  Whether you are buy­ing, sell­ing, or refi­nanc­ing a prop­erty, it is crit­i­cal to know the mar­ket value of your home.  Zillow.com can give you a great start­ing point for esti­mat­ing the cur­rent value of your home.  The site has an easy to use inter­face, and …read more

I love to thank peo­ple who make my life bet­ter.  This week, with the release of the Curi­ous George Sound­track, I would like to thank Jack John­son.  I bought the CD yes­ter­day, and my fam­ily and I had a blast lis­ten­ing to it last night.  We played it over and over again, hap­pily danc­ing around …read more

Once a week I sit down to write up a gro­cery list, and I tell my wife, ” I need to cre­ate some type of spread­sheet or some­thing so I can save time by avoid­ing re-writing lists, remem­ber what I actu­ally need, and then have it orga­nized in a way that keeps me from tra­vers­ing …read more

Alright, so you are not sure if Fire­fox is for you. You are used to using Inter­net Explorer. You are just more com­fort­able with Microsoft, or you have never felt the need to explore your web brows­ing options. Well, at the very least, you should down­load the new Inter­net Explorer 7. What is IE7 like? …read more

Our gov­ern­ment proves its inep­ti­tude once again with new rules that make hunt­ing for a job online more dif­fi­cult. Who thought this was a good idea? If you are look­ing for a new job, read the arti­cle below. It is impor­tant to fol­low the new guide­lines. New fed­eral rules will make job hunt­ing online trick­ier …read more