THE DREAM IN ACTION

Above is my SXSW Foursquare scoreboard. Foursquare had a mini game within the app four SXSW participants to checking w/ as many different friends as possible, checkin at as many places as possible, had a collection of SXSW specific badges to acquire, etc. This actually made checking in really fun aside from it’s obvious utility. Another big [...]

staying power – n. the ability to endure or last. Some startups today seem like they’re cool features or tools (insert twitter tool here) but I just don’t see how some of them will be around in a year or 2 when their budgets dry up. I could be totally wrong and maybe Twitters tool [...]

In a recent interview with Peter Kim of the Dachis Group, (one of hundred’s he’s done over the last 2 weeks) Gary Vaynerchuk summed up his hard work and much of his business philosophy by saying, “Talk and things happen.” I’ve been watching WineLibraryTV for probably about a year. Gary is nuts and I won’t [...]

Now you can comment on this blog and it will post to Friendfeed. There are many great conversations going on over on Friendfeed and I’m happy that I’ll be able to reach and engaged that community with this blog. During a talk with Robert Scoble and Gary Vaynerchuk at CES, Scoble mentioned that Friendfeed has [...]

Instead of making big New Years Resolutions for 2009 I decided last November that I would attempt to call out and meet 12 specific people in 2009. I figured those relationships would be much more valuable than any half ass’d resolution. So, over the last few months, up to the night that I posted this [...]

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 [...]

As many of you well know I’m a huge fan of Gary Vaynerchuk of WineLibraryTV. Gary is authentic and uses that authenticity to build great businesses. A few weeks ago I reached out to Gary for a spotlight on ActionsTalk, my start-up that features great entrepreneurs and allows them to tell their story to our [...]

  Over the last month I have been reading Gary Vaynerchuks ’101 Wines guaranteed to inspire, delight, and bring thunder to your world’. Yes the book has taught me about 101 wines but most importantly it has begun to teach me how to talk about the wines that I taste. Gary has the ability to [...]

This weekend I attended my first Jimmy Buffet concert at Alpine Valley, WI.  In the words of my dear mother, “Everyone needs to see Jimmy at least once”. Jimmy Buffet, like no other musician that I’ve ever seen in my life, draws a very diverse fan base. Based on what I saw this weekend, literally [...]

Yesterday Gary and Kevin were together in Vegas and took an hour or so just to answer questions people had on Seesmic. A few notes on this: Seesmic is obviously sweet and is going to last. The big names are buying in. Kevin and Gary combined have phenomenal insights into building web companies and communities. [...]