THE DREAM IN ACTION

Image by Strife81 via FlickrHAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYBODY! I went through some of my oldest blog posts this morning and found one to be particularly appropriate. In a time of leaning business practices and tight funding opportunities it is even more important to focus on businesses that will generate revenue! Sometimes this requires us to put [...]

Fifty People, One Question: New Orleans from Benjamin Reece on Vimeo. I found this video by Benjamin Reece a few weeks back and after re-finding in I’ve decided that it is just too aww inspiring not to share. This post is out of the norm for Ryan A Graves.com but I think you’ll be glad [...]

There was a great post on the Viral Thinking blog today called, ‘Creating Your Personal Brand‘. This started as a comment on that post and I wanted to continue the thought here… <comment> Personal branding is SO important. Even for businesses that aren’t just run by one individual, its important for that companies individuals to [...]

Today was awesome. I had a productive day at work, I started early (about 6:50am), got to work on some video editing which was fun, got news about a potential stint in Paris, and left a hair before 5 (always nice). Then when I came home I realized that it was an awesome “social media [...]

AdaptiveBlue publically launched their new product today called Glue. My friend, Fraser Kelton, the VP of Business Development at AdaptiveBlue hooked me up with the product about a month ago through their private beta and it is awesome. It uses semantic web technologies to literally link your friends to the objects you view on the [...]

I recently read Paul Graham’s Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy. It’s super encouraging for someone in my position because it affirms yet again that my efforts towards starting SocialDreamium are NOT wasted. It also affirms that starting a company now is actually very well timed. I’ve always thought that starting anything [...]

The Credit Crisis – the US economy horror picture show View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: economics credit)

This video is a bit long, just shy of 1 hour. But, it is packed with great lessons from 37 Signals founder and CEO, Jason Fried. He goes through a series of tips or lessons before opening up for Q&A. Here is my take a two of his lessons that stuck out to me most. [...]

I’ve struggled recently with where SocialDreamium will go. In it’s current state, less than 1 month old,  I’m still working on closing my first client for social web consulting, I realize already that eventually I will have a desire for it to grow far beyond it being solely services. For now, consulting is a very [...]

This morning I signed a petition for Free the Airwaves that would help the wireless initiatives in the US. Remember the fuzzyness between TV channels, well those radio airwaves are currently controlled by the FCC and in Feb 2009 they are going to decide whether or not they will open up that “white space” spectrum, [...]

Image by graves.ryan via FlickrI’ve been using Google Chrome on my PC at work since the first day. I really like the browser for one reason and one reason only…SPEED. However, over the last few days I’ve had it crash on me about once a day. Each time I’ve had 5-10 tabs open and am [...]

Miami University a traditionally very republican school seems to be a bit up in the air this year. Look at this video found on boston.com Obama’s appeal to younger voters definitely will make this years election interesting on Miami’s conservative campus.

Paulson’s take on where we are: “We’ve taken steps to bring confidence back to the banks, but we will have a number of difficult months ahead of us.”

Peter Urban from Alberta, Canada launches Smibs.com’s first product, Doorbell, into public beta today! Testing Doorbell out last night I’ve decided to use it to manage my SocialDreamium contacts and clients. The product has proven to be extremely useful and powerfully simple. Smibs which obviously stems from Small/Medium Business sets out to make the sales [...]