Connecting the dots of life and business

Shawn Morton and I are hosting a tweetup here in Louisville for area folks this Thursday. Our agenda is simple, there are great people locally who obviously love Twitter and other new media tools and we think we should get together!
We know there are lots of fun meetups, so we asked our friends at [...]

Last week’s Twitter love-fest reminded me of a post I’ve wanted to finish for some time. After Blog World, I came back feeling energized and excited about social media and its future as an industry. Although still young, a conference like Blog World shed light on what COULD be a promising future. [...]

After hearing LinkedIn’s announcements of new features, I thought this image perfectly depicted their position. LinkedIn is way ahead, but Facebook and others are encroaching on LinkedIn’s business networking turf. To “flank” Facebook and the numerous startup networks, LinkedIn has added the following features:

Facebook’s feed – Possibly Facebook’s greatest feature is it’s mini-feed where [...]

A common term used in the church is having a “mountain top experience” where a person or group strengthens their faith during a concentrated period.
Yesterday’s Twitter “love-fest” had a similar feeling, where many people who commented on Jeremiah’s post, received several new Twitter friends. I personally received over thirty and our web show @dailyidea [...]

One of the aspects (although unproductive at times) is how I never know the new areas of the web I’ll discover each day. With the advent of social bookmarking, I found many new sites with the likes of del.icio.us, Reddit (rarely digg) and now Mixx. My latest tool for new links is Twitter. [...]

Much has been discussed on whether the $15 billion valuation of Facebook is valid. A quick online search show many have opinions. Some say $15 billion isn’t enough, some it’s worth every penny and many say it’s outlandish.
Rather than join the bigger debate, Rob and I decided to analyze what does this valuation [...]