Here’s a post for anyone out there considering the new BMW 3-Series, due to arrive on these shores in February. I’m happy to report some uneventful driving in my cars, so I’ve no DIY story to share. I’ve got a lot planned for the M3 come spring. Even though the miles are still very low […]
If you’re in any type of communications role, you know every vertical has influencers. How to automate finding them, scoring them and cultivating them is a rapidly expanding cottage market within the broader social media marketing space. Marc Benioff of Salesforce.com has brought his formidable promotion skills to this space. Salesforce acquired social media monitoring […]
Last week I had two online services fail, and I needed customer service fast. The experiences made me stop and think about how much I use free (or almost free )services daily, and if them being free changed my service expectations as a user. On 11/17 this WordPress blog, which I’ve published for four years, […]
One of the great things about owning a BMW is that it is virtually impossible to know everything about the car. The amount of esoteric knowledge seems infinite, and its possible to turn the ownership experience into a full-scale hobby rather than just transportation. A case in point is the ability to access lots of […]
It’s been fascinating this week to read coverage of congressional hearings around the SOPA bill, or Stop Online Privacy Act. The bill has strong support from the Motion Picture Association of America, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and big pharmaceutical companies. It’s opposed by most technology and telecom companies, plus consumer advocate groups like the […]
One of the things I do regularly for clients is drive awareness of their news through social media channels. So I read with interest an article from Mediabistro’s PR Newser about comparing Facebook vs. Twitter for driving traffic. PRNewswire worked with the social media company CrowdFactory to analyze activity around press releases over a period […]
I read a very sad and ironic story on the M5Board this week. A guy named Tom Ranck had owned his 2000 M5 since new, and had driven it for 276,000. Roundel, the magazine of the BMW Car Club of America, ran a profile piece on Tom and his car in this month’s November issue. […]
This weekend I stopped by Calvert Woodley, a landmark DC establishment for wine. I wanted to pick up some French wine, and I wanted to attend a tasting of some wines imported by Robert “Bobby” Kacher. Kacher is a well known importer and a resident of DC. He was gracious as he multitasked conversations and […]
I read a good article this week on CircleID by Bruce Levinson. He talks about how eventually cybersecurity will be something the federal government regulates, alongside other more familiar types of activities such as financial transactions and the environment. You can disagree about the proper role of government in the regulation of private networks, but […]
This morning I attended the opening of the inaugural GovComm show at the Washington Convention Center. The show is presented by InfoComm, the trade association for all things audiovisual. My client Polycom is exhibiting and their CTO for public sector Sean Lessman gave the opening keynote speech. Sean started by talking about how far collaboration […]
I saw two pieces of news today that illustrated how consumers are dictating content delivery. The Internet continues to accelerate the move to personalized media consumption, when and where the consumer wants it. This trend has decimated the b2b magazine space, and now video usage is rapidly going mass market. In January Ziff Davis will […]
There aren’t many interesting restaurants very close to my neighborhood. Most dinners involve a drive to Old Town at least, if not DC. But this weekend we decided to go Bosnian at the Cosmopolitan Grill, located (a bit incongruously) right next to our gym along Route 1. Tom Sietsema in the Post gave the place […]