Level 3, a sponsor of SXSW, does this cool travelling series of “Red Couch” interviews. It’s dead simple. They ask you a few questions and off you go. Here is my version. It pretty much tells you where my head is at these days. Click on the image to view the video. Tell me if [...]
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Red Couch Interview
Posted in Citizen Commerce, Entrepreneurs, Social Media, tagged SXSW, Level 3, Red Couch Interview on March 26, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Quick wind-up of SXSW
Posted in Social Media, Start-ups, tagged Carla C. Thompson, Guidewire Group, Susan Strausberg on March 21, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Now that I’ve been, I realize that dissecting SXSW is a time-honored “aftermath” sport. Makes sense…this is THE social media crowd. OF course they are going to pound the blogosphere etc. before, during, and after. I don’t have unique insights on how to navigate or embrace this behemoth of an event. But I liked this [...]
Gotta get my party vibe going
Posted in Entrepreneurs, Social Media, Start-ups, tagged SXSW Interactive Conference on February 27, 2010 | 5 Comments »
I’m thrilled Daily Grommet was asked to present at the upcoming South By Southwest Interactive conference. It’s a huge honor and opportunity. SXSW is an enormous 24 hour party wrapped around a conference. And the place where Twitter really got lift-off when they presented. If I could pick one place to take our show on [...]
Surprising result from study: What NYT articles are “most emailed?”
Posted in American culture, Cultural anthropology, Social Media, tagged John Tierney, Jonah Berger, Katherine A. Milkman, NYT on February 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A recent study , written by by John Tierney, of the most emailed New York Times articles yielded some unexpected results. Here’s how it was conducted: Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have intensively studied the New York Times list of most-e-mailed articles, checking it every 15 minutes for more than six months, analyzing the [...]
Twitter Lists…a new flirting tool?
Posted in Social Media, tagged Twitter Lists on December 8, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Twitter Lists provide a fascinating way to see view how other people categorize your expertise and interests. For example, people generally put me on startups/marketing/design/CEO lists. And “women” lists. But I noticed the other day that someone I respect enormously put me on a “most attractive/smart” list. It sure got my attention and I was [...]
Great things are happening to the Grommets
Posted in Citizen Commerce, Entrepreneurs, Social Media, tagged Pacific Shaving, Living Proof, Jill-able, Blush Topless Undershirts, Arghand Cooperative, Yahoo! Shine, Maine Flame, Twist Cleaning Products, Pearl's Premium, Laundry Tree SoapNuts, FoodShouldTasteGood, True Body, Times Square Mirror on September 5, 2009 | 3 Comments »
A central reason for doing Daily Grommet is to help the “good guys” win. Our vision has always included helping the Grommets to really get lift-off–because of the power of our community and story distribution. We really do believe we can harness Oprah-like power and reach, some day. We’re on our way. Here’s a roundup [...]
Five ways to be a human at a distance
Posted in American culture, Social Media, tagged B Designs, Chris Brogan, Jackie Kennedy, Karen Battles on August 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The social media maven Chris Brogan sent out a newsletter yesterday that was jam packed with good advice. His section on “Five ways to be a human at a distance” held a surprising point. I’ve heard he’s very appealing, but I thought he might be all about sending warm pixels. However, he actually wrote: [...]
Twist as gifts – Yippee! Yippee! Yippee!
Posted in Citizen Commerce, Entrepreneurs, Social Media, tagged Twist on August 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The above title of this post is lifted straight from an email subject line. Patti sent it around to the whole team last week. She was letting everyone know about something wonderful that happened with one of the Grommets. It was the Twist Clean Bundle, a wonderfully effective set of green cleaning “tools”. Twist Clean [...]
Bringing Jesse out from behind the camera….
Posted in Entrepreneurs, Social Media, tagged coBRANDit, Jesse Buckley, Pacific Shaving, Stan Ades on April 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We’re trying to get out in the field more frequently, in our videos, to show how we test our our Grommets. I like this shaving demonstration video, for that reason. FYI, the man in the mirror is Jesse Buckley, who is normally behind the camera shooting our videos. His excellent video production and distribution company, [...]
Bye-bye to buy buy
Posted in American culture, Social Media, e-commerce, tagged Economist, thoughtful consumption on April 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The Economist recently published a piece predicting permanent changes in consumer buying behavior. Mindless consumption is out. Thoughtful purchases are in. As a product designer, I think that’s great. I’m all for people being more demanding of the stuff they buy. But what is a great product producer to do, to get his or [...]
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