Alligator Bob Saves the Day

August 25, 2010

Apparently Chicago has its very own, Steve Irwin! When a 3-foot alligator—yes, I know Steve hunted crocs—was cruising the waters of the Chicago river, who showed up to catch it? None other than, Alligator Bob. I’m not sure if this is the same Alligator Bob who owns a custom leather shop in Lake Villa, IL, but [...]

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Apple Wishes… Droid Does

August 23, 2010

I work with a few people who have Motorola Droid phones. They mentioned this past week that they just received updates that allow them to view websites that contain Flash. If I were Motorola, I would run an ad campaign making fun of Apple talking about browsing the whole internet on the iPhone even though it [...]

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Jennifer Knapp and “Christian” Marketing

May 21, 2010

I just read an article about Jennifer Knapp. While most people will likely choose to write about her coming out and saying she is gay, I was drawn more to a different comment she made. On page 4 of the article she talked about, “critically thinking fans who are trying to sort out their lives [...]

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Response to letter from Steve Jobs

April 29, 2010

I read an open letter from Steve Jobs today about why Apple isn’t going to allow Flash on the iPad, iPod Touch or iPhone. I thought I would write a response. “Open”: True, Flash products are 100% proprietary. So what? You don’t have to use Flash. But if someone wants to spend the money to [...]

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Are Businesses Just Glorified Pimps?

February 26, 2010

I went to a meeting yesterday where they were talking about some of the changes in SharePoint 2010. Two things really stood out to me, and neither of them had much to do with SharePoint. The first thing was when the presenter was describing how often company website structures model their business hierarchy instead of [...]

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Will People Copy the Windows 7 Phone?

February 16, 2010

I had an interesting conversation at work yesterday. A lot of news was coming out about the new Windows Phone 7 Series operating system and someone mentioned that they were surprised that we won’t start seeing the phones until around the end of this year. “Doesn’t that give competitors a chance to copy what they are doing?” [...]

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How Good Is Linchpin?

February 13, 2010

I just posted a review of Seth Godin’s new book on Amazon, but thought I would also post it here with a few extra thoughts. I, like several others people, donated some money to a charity and was able to read an early release of this book. Seth is a brilliant and creative marketer. Why [...]

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We Care

February 1, 2010

I love it when the United States Postal Service delivers mail in a plastic bag with “We Care” printed on it. I always have to laugh because it’s like they are trying to distract me from the fact that they just completely mutilated my mail. “Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!” To [...]

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What’s so great about the iPad?

January 28, 2010

I have to admit that I was looking forward to the announcement of the iPad. After Apple completely changed the way we think of mobile phones I was curious to see if they how they might reinvent the tablet. Unfortunately, I was greatly disappointed. What is this better than? Surfing the web? Apple claims this is [...]

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Meet Joe, The Linchpin

January 17, 2010

I’ve been reading Seth Godin’s new book, Linchpin, which should be available on January 26th in the event that you are curious enough to take a look. As I mentioned in an earlier post, I donated some money to the Acumen Fund, and in response, Seth mailed me his book a few weeks early so I could [...]

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