I’m so excited to be planning the 2nd Annual 24 hour all-volunteer Design-a-thon in Nashville, on August 6th-7th at CoLab Nashville. Our 2010 event brought more than 30 of Nashville’s most creative professionals and we wanted to continue the social good we started, by selecting a local nonprofit to help this year. Our volunteers even [...]
Yours truly was selected as Team Captain for Chevy’s Second Annual Road Trip to SxSW in Austin, Texas. Chevy is providing my teammates Nicole Yeary, Samantha Ogborn, Jen Knoedl & I with a beautiful White Chevy Traverse aka White Diamond. We depart from Chicago on March 8th with a scheduled arrival in Austin on March 10th. Why two [...]
Today, I had the pleasure of attending CoffeeFest Chicago 2011 with Tim McDonald, Kerri Olsen & Sam Hosenka. Tim and Sam interviewed a few businesses who are leveraging social media. Selby Software is a B2B software & POS system that integrated social media networks, like Twitter, into their POS so customers can order their favorite [...]
Back in March at SxSW Interactive, Jeff Pulver suggested I reach out to a local Nashville guy, Andy Dixon. Jeff went on to tell me a brief summary of Andy’s background and that he had spoken at Jeff’s #140 Conf in NYC. I contacted Andy when I returned to Nashville and asked him to meet [...]
If you haven’t been following me recently, I’ve started blogging for Social Fresh, here’s a piece of the newest blog I wrote about how cities, like Boston & Chicago, are engaging citizens & tourists through social media. To see the entire blog post and leave comments, check out Social Fresh. CHICAGO New York is famous [...]
Southern Fried Design-a-thon On July 24th beginning at 11am, some of Nashville’s most creative minds will be gathering with the purpose giving back to our community. More than 30 of Nashville’s web developers, marketers, designers and copywriters are foregoing sleep to create a brand new logo, website, marketing collateral and more for a 25 [...]
Content consumption is quickly shifting away from the desktop and more to mobile devices and with the iPhone mobile app market alone pulling in more than $200 million dollars a month in sales, it is no wonder that every company wants to increase their brand exposure. In a recent report by Kony Solutions, 69% of Fortune [...]
Boyfriends and bachelors beware: Tiffany & Co.’s iPhone app [iTunes link] for engagement rings arrived in the App Store today, and it’s been carefully engineered for getting clueless and/or commitment-phobic grooms onto the engagement ring floors of Tiffany stores. For those looking to buy or receive a Tiffany’s engagement ring, the app brings the smooth, [...]
Social Media Releases Chemical Feel Goods Sometimes referred to as the “cuddle” chemical, oxytocin — a hormone produced in the brain — stimulates feelings of trust and security, reduces anxiety levels and may even produce positive sexual side effects. It sounds like a miracle drug, so how does one get their hands on it? Perhaps, [...]
