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Help for Jude

A few weeks ago one of my wife’s clos­est friends, Molly Housh, got together with my sister-in-law Katie Dun­can and decided that they were going to try to do some­thing to help my son Jude and my fam­ily.  The result has been noth­ing short of spec­tac­u­lar, as friends, fam­ily mem­bers, busi­ness col­leagues, and com­plete strangers […]

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Adding Fun to Your Run with Nike Plus

Hi, my name is Dave, and I am a nerd… a nerd who is try­ing to get in shape by run­ning every day even though run­ning alone can be mun­dane.  A nerd who is stay­ing inter­ested in run­ning by gath­er­ing data about my run­ning using an awe­some gad­get called Nike Plus.  If you are a […]

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What Next?

For the past week, much of the con­ver­sa­tion around Day­ton has been about NCR and their depar­ture from the com­mu­nity.  NCR was founded by John H. Pat­ter­son over 100 years ago.  Pat­ter­son was an inno­va­tor, a com­mu­nity leader, and one of the pio­neers of mod­ern sales tech­niques.  One need not look very far to find […]

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5 Reasons to Join Dayton Marketing Community

If you are a mar­ket­ing pro­fes­sional liv­ing or work­ing in the Day­ton, Ohio area, I want to encour­age you to join a social net­work I cre­ated — Day­ton Mar­ket­ing Com­mu­nity. The site is con­stantly evolv­ing, and new mem­bers are join­ing every day.  There are so many rea­sons why you should join.  Here are 5: Find A […]

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The Physics of Marketing — Fraunhofer Diffraction

Joseph von Fraun­hofer lived a short, dif­fi­cult life, but that did not stop him from becom­ing one of the world’s most tal­ented mak­ers of opti­cal glass and an expert on the dis­per­sion of light.  Accord­ing to Wikipedia, he was orphaned at age 11.  Fraun­hofer then went to work as an appren­tice for a glass maker.  […]

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More of This…

Alright so I am not a big “New Year’s Res­o­lu­tion” guy, but I thought I might take a moment to write about my thoughts for 2009. In 2009 I plan to do more: Goof­ing Around With My Fam­ily — This is really impor­tant to me.  I have the most awe­some fam­ily in the world.  It is easy […]

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