If this post comes off as a rant against a brand I will have missed the mark. I am using a recent experience with Stuart Weitzman to highlight a bigger point. Last week I had a pair of the brand’s shoes comically and awkwardly disintegrate on my feet during a long day of meetings. I [...]
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This is not an attack on Stuart Weitzman
Posted in Citizen Commerce, Cultural anthropology, Social Media, tagged customer service, shoes disintegrating, Social media, Stuart Weitzman, Twitter on February 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Hire these strong lads
Posted in American culture, Social Media on June 6, 2011 | 1 Comment »
With Groupon’s S-1 filing for its IPO, and the previous $6B bid by Google, the business of creating new marketing vehicles for promoting local businesses is sizzling hot. I’m watching the trend from the other side too. How does a local business actually grab these tools and technologies for itself? My favorite recent experience happened [...]
WordPress pronounces this blog a “Wow”
Posted in Social Media on January 2, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com, who hosts this blog, mulled over how I did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of my overall blog health, straight from them. This blog is a very modest one (so it must not take much to get a “Wow” rating). Maybe WordPress practices grade inflation, as [...]
Red Couch Interview
Posted in Citizen Commerce, Entrepreneurs, Social Media, tagged Level 3, Red Couch Interview, SXSW on March 26, 2010 | 3 Comments »
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 [...]
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 Arghand Cooperative, Blush Topless Undershirts, FoodShouldTasteGood, Jill-able, Laundry Tree SoapNuts, Living Proof, Maine Flame, Pacific Shaving, Pearl's Premium, Times Square Mirror, True Body, Twist Cleaning Products, Yahoo! Shine 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: [...]
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- This is not an attack on Stuart Weitzman http://t.co/ohP4383A 1 day ago
- @edloessi @marlomarkeging @contessastaff Thanks for sharing my shoe calamity post. My calves were killing me Friday! http://t.co/KBXXpcsr 3 days ago
- Silence? Surprising. @Stuart_Weitzman It was actually funny, but your shoes spontaneously disintigrated on my feet. http://t.co/NGJgunZh 4 days ago
