Archive: May, 2010

25 May

Techcrunch Disrupt – live streaming video powered by Livestream

via livestream.com I’m at the TechCrunch Disrupt Conference in New York City which continues through tomorrow night. I encourage you all to tune into the Livestream of the conference because there are a lot of new technologies being introduced that will influence and assist in how we consume, create and engage in content. There are [...]

23 May

Omni Hotels ‘Gets It’ by using Twitter Outreach

Omni Hotels has a presence online but each individual location has a key individual who handles guests specifically at that hotel.  Kelly Burnett is the rockstar who manages the presence of Omni Orlando and I was lucky to grab an interview with her.  It was this tweet that caught my attention and got me asking, [...]

23 May

Papa John’s Recruits Facebook Fans to Create Next Pizza

In much the same way that Dunkin’ Donuts and Mountain Dew are tapping their online fans to create new products, Papa John’s is using Facebook to find their next speciality pizza. The Papa’s Specialty Pizza Challenge tasks Facebook fans with creating the winning recipe for the company’s next specialty pizza through June 14. Although the [...]

23 May

Foursquare Gets More Mainstream

Featured Story Foursquare Gets Mainstream Exposure on “The Today Show”       100Share Social Media Foursquare has scored itself another partnership, this time with NBC’s The Today Show. Foursquare users who head to 30 Rock this summer for the Toyota Concert Series on Today will be able to check in, earn badges and compete for [...]

20 May

Fast motion video of the entire weeks location based check in’s at SxSW Interactive

via mashable.com It seems Foursquare and Gowalla dominated the location based services used at SxSW in March. I know I used Foursquare as my primary communication tool because it was easier to see where your friends were at then have tweet, text, email or call them. How do you like the video? Do you use [...]

19 May

Join Us For A Little Southern Fried Social Change

We’re actively seeking volunteers and sponsors for this event.  It’s being held on Saturday, July 24th to Sunday, July 25th at CoLab Nashville.  We’re limiting the number of volunteers to no more than 40, to ensure we stay on task and provide the non-profit the best work.  The event will benefit Reconciliation, a 25 year [...]

19 May

My photo tour of Cheekwood Gardens and Museum

See the full gallery on Posterous I recently did a photowalk of Cheekwood Gardens on behalf of Social Media Club Nashville.  It was less than a week after the epic Nashville flood so I wasn’t surprised few showed up.  We’ll have to host a ‘do over,’ minus the floods, of course.   Enjoy a few [...]

19 May

Where you’ll find me next week in NYC

I leave tomorrow morning at 4:30am for New York City! This is a list of places you will definitely find me while in NYC next week… 5th Ave Chocolatiere – Because as soon as you say Champagne truffles to any woman, we melt. Roger Smith Hotel – Because I recently named their newest rooftop bar [...]

19 May

Wanna Poken Me? Originally blogged 12/09

I was recently invited by Jennifer Navarrete and Luis Sandoval Jr. to review one of the fancy schmancy new gadgets they’re covering in their January podcast for Tech In Twenty.  I was recently turned on to the Poken by our Tennessee Poken representative, Mark Smith, who I expect will be wildly success with the concept of  [...]

19 May

I love him, I love him and I don’t care who knows it! Originally blogged January, 2010

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Once upon a time there lived a Travelocity Gnome who was quite content living in a store on Beale Street in Memphis, TN called Tater Reds. … Ok, ok really it goes something like this… The JTMarCom team and I recently did some work for the Dunkin Donuts Franchisee in Memphis, TN so after a [...]