Social Media
24 March 2008 | View Comments
photo credit: skampy Although it’s gotten its fair share of blog posts and media hits in NY Times, Marketing Sherpa and MarketingProfs over the last several days, Peter Shankman‘s Help A Reporter Out project deserves a mention here as well for those of you who don’t have your finger on the pulse of the marketing [...]
Tagged in entrepreneur, Facebook, Help A Reporter, karma, mailing lists, marketing, media relations, Peter Shankman, startup
Legit Moguls
14 March 2008 | View Comments
There’s a wing joint that dominates the city of Austin and has started its migration across Texas. Started by two former University of Texas students, Pluckers has become the name that defines Buffalo wings in the state capital. The chain was recently featured in The Alcalde [Note that the article on Pluckers is not available [...]
Tagged in Austin, bars, college, customer service, Pluckers, restaurants, service, sports, startup, University of Texas
Wannabe Viewpoint
7 March 2008 | View Comments
It started as such an innocent tool. In my love of Gmail, I stumbled upon the powerful Google Reader (reader.google.com) and begin to fill it with RSS feeds from my favorite Web destinations. Instantly, my reader became the fastest way to skim through the gaming blogs, tech news and business musings of the talking heads [...]
Tagged in blogs, efficiency, Google, Google Reader, ignorance, life hack, optimize, RSS, simple, simplify