Don't make ads, make news – Be the Voice podcast

January 20, 2009

Interview with Bob Thacker, Senior VP of Marketing and Advertising for OfficeMax, about building a new voice with their “Life is beautiful. Work can be too” campaign. What is the “Be the Voice” podcast? Interviews with individuals developing thought leadership for themselves and their organization to drive business growth. Subscribe to the podcast via iTunes […]

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Don’t make ads, make news

January 20, 2009

Interview with Bob Thacker, Senior VP of Marketing and Advertising for OfficeMax, about building a new voice with their “Life is beautiful. Work can be too” campaign. Summary: Office supplies are not traditionally an exciting and fun space. The category is known for big dull bland spaces that are pretty much all alike. OfficeMax’s “Life […]

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Spark Minutes on the air for the week of 1/19/09

January 18, 2009

For those listeners of the Spark Minute on Green 960 or 910 KNEW in San Francisco, you’ve found the summary of all the follow up information and reports you heard on air for the week of 1/19/09. Auctioning off virginity on the Internet. How did sex become the one skill for which no experience is […]

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Auctioning off virginity on the Internet. How did sex become the one skill for which no experience is highly valued?

January 18, 2009

Friday night, I appeared on The Curtis Sliwa Show on WABC Radio (audio up soon) to talk about 22-year old Natalie Dylan (not her real name) auctioning off her virginity on the Internet. The media circus frenzy on the virginity auction and the extremely poor public validation for any of this information makes me question […]

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Best online transit maps and tools for the San Francisco Bay Area commuter

January 18, 2009

Commuting sucks. Although two things have made the experience 1,000 times more pleasant. My iPod with podcasts. GPS-enabled buses and trains. While traveling on crowded buses and trains, you can get really bored and annoyed. For me, the process of waiting or being smushed has been completely eliminated thanks to podcasts on my iPod. I’m […]

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My Daily Mugshot: My favorite daily waste of time

January 18, 2009

Often, the most successful social media ventures discover a way to connect personally with the user. It can be something useful, or a colossal waste of time. As much as we like to be efficient all day, we’re only somewhat efficient. The rest of the day we’re just wasting our time. And I can’t recommend […]

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Using social media to experience the Obama inauguration before, during, and after

January 18, 2009

The TV and cable news networks will most definitely be jumping all over each other to deliver the most up to date, expert, and graphics-laden experience of the inauguration. But if you’re part of the ‘net generation you’ll probably be sitting on your couch in front of the TV with your notebook computer on your […]

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The digital TV transition will be a mess no matter when the deadline is

January 18, 2009

Come February 17th, that’s the date when all the stations turn off their analog TV broadcast signals and we only have digital transmissions. Everyone who still uses rabbit ears (not cable or satellite) to get their TV will be affected. OK, if you haven’t heard that in the past year and a half you’ve done […]

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Spark Minutes on the air for the week of 1/12/09

January 12, 2009

For those listeners of the Spark Minute on Green 960 or 910 KNEW in San Francisco, you’ve found the summary of all the follow up information and reports you heard on air for the week of 1/12/09. Porn stars on Twitter…How could THEIR lives be this dull? Scuba cams as cheap as $99 Best product […]

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Porn stars on Twitter…How could THEIR lives be this dull?

January 11, 2009

Last week I wrote about celebrities who Twitter and that I was not surprised to learn that their lives are less interesting than the people who I follow (@dspark) and probably the people you follow. I ran across the site, The Vine, which has a list of the porn stars that Twitter. The list contains […]

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