Did you doodle at school as a kid? Did you play make-believe games with your friends that took you to other worlds real and imagined? Did you have an invisible friend? Our minds are so free as kids. We imagine anything and everything. Our creativity knows no limits and our imagination is boundless. When do we lose that? When does our creativity go into hiding, and we settle for the ordinary and the mundane? Some people never lose it. Some…

Hey there. I just wanted to share a couple of places you can find me, both today and in the near future, if you’re interested. The first is over at The Donovan Group, where founder and President Andy Donovan was very kind to profile me last week. Chatting with his media partner Donna Papacosta, we talked about Bonsai Interactive Marketing, social media, 12for12k and where the industry is heading, amongst other things. You can find the podcast of the interview…

We get easily distracted by shiny new things. We see something that gives us the “Oooh” ripple of excitement, and we buy into the premise. For a while, everything is good. We see only positives, and ignore the (in hindsight) questionable. But then the cracks appear. Faults that had always been present start to become clearer. Actions and non-actions reveal a side that we had previously ignored, but now can’t be ignored any longer. We start to ask the questions…

A blog’s community can be many things. It can be long-term subscribers; it can be first time visitors. It can be “only” readers; it can be regular commenters. It can be every day attendees; it can be folks that visit once then read every other post from a feed, never to visit the actual blog again. One thing that every single member of a blog community has in common, though, is the connection to each other through the blog (and…