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Today I have learned a lesson about missed opportunity. You see for years I have been telling friends and family members that I wanted to write a coffee table book about the wonderful oddities located in the immediate vicinity of the Monroe, Ohio exit on I-75. I thought it would be fun to tell the stories of the people who live, work, and visit this very eclectic place in Southwestern Ohio. After all, the exit …read more
A couple weeks back I wrote a blog post about something I called the Me3 model for marketing. This model was built around the idea that marketing involves 3 broad area of concern – message, medium, and measurement. In the time since, I have found it to be a very useful way to approach marketing, particularly as it pertains to helping me determine where clients need my help. Still, as I was preparing to present …read more
School funding is a big problem in Ohio. For as long as I can remember there has been a system that relied on the passage of levies district by district every year or two. Those districts that regularly pass levies have money, and those that don’t pass levies struggle. One problem with this system is that even though there may be say 5,000 people who would be willing to pay a little more, if 5001 …read more
Yesterday I got to celebrate my birthday by having my very own social media conference – SummitUp. I highly recommend this as a way to celebrate your next birthday. (actually this was purely coincidence, but a nice one none the less.) The day was simply amazing. To give you an idea of how well things went, at least from my perspective, my biggest gripe for the day was that the coffee cups were roughly the …read more
I recently read Gordon MacKenzie’s Orbiting The Giant Hairball, an excellent book about cultivating personal creativity – particularly how to do so in the workplace. It is a brilliant book, chronicling the author’s experiences as an employee at Hallmark. The book is filled with doodles, sketches, stories, and anecdotes chronicling ways in which Gordon managed to leverage his creativity to further his career and enrich his life. The chapters are short, and it is a very …read more
In January of 2006, I discovered Pandora.com. Almost immediately, I began telling people about the site. A few days later, I even posted a thank you note on my blog to Tim Westergren, the founder of Pandora. Yesterday, I had the very distinct honor of introducing Tim at the Cincinnati Social Media Breakfast. My employer, LUCRUM was generous enough to sponsor the Cincinnati Social Media Breakfast where Tim was the speaker, and as a …read more
I was recently given the following information about the festivities surrounding Martin Luther King Day in Dayton, Ohio, and I wanted to pass it along to anyone who might be interested in participating. I plan to be there on Monday for the march. I hope to see you there. 2009 MLK CELEBRATION SCHEDULE OF EVENTS DAYTON, Ohio, January 7, 2009- – -As the nation prepares to inaugurate its first African-American president, Dayton SCLC officials have …read more
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