My Father Asks for Nothing
(hat-tip: www.sarahetc.com) Read this and see if your eyes don’t leak a little: http://sippicancottage.blogspot.com/2009/03/my-father-asks-for-nothing.html
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Internet Geekdom
Marketing
Pay-to-play – make the bad reviews go away
I’m a poet and don’t know it; the faster I try to write something the more likely it is to have an internal rhyme in it. Or maybe I’m a rapper in another life. Anyway, Crystal King just mentioned an article in a tweet about how Yelp may be extorting customers with threats about bad
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Marketing
Tony Rubleski yesterday
Tony Rubleski spoke to about 20-30 people yesterday at the Prattville Chamber. I get to hear a number of gurus, and I was impressed with his approach. He compared himself to Forrest Gump a number of times (and no, he’s not a southerner; he’s from Michigan.). My big takeaway from it is I’m still not
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Current Events, Marketing
Tony Rubleski at Prattville Chamber today
The Prattville Chamber is sponsoring a seminar by Tony Rubleski TODAY, and there are seats available, last I heard. What’s funny is he is able to do this seminar (at this price) because he’s already in town doing a (much more expensive) seminar for another group, and THAT seminar is sold out. Granted, this is going
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Local, Real Life
leadership Autauga County
I’m heading back (as soon as I post this) from Auburn, where I’ve been attending the Leadership Autauga County initial session. They’ve been trying to get me to do this for about ten years, and I finally had the staffing at the office to make it happen. Last night and today were mostly team building
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Real Life
Lost soles at the church property
Helped with the burning of some scrub at the future site of our church building. It involved dashing into some of the ashes to push wood into better piles. Apparently I wasn’t quick enough, as my boots, or at least the soles, are goners:
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Internet Geekdom, Local, Real Life
Lately it’s occurred to me…
… what a long strange trip it’s been. I was in Birmingham all day yesterday, from a medical appointment at UAB to a family visit to a meetup with some of the Birmingham twitterati, semi-organized by André Natta of bhamterminal.com fame.
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Gadgetry
Computer upgrade
Okay, I know this is just narcissistic, but my work PC now has 2 GBs more RAM and when I got to talking to my computer tech (Fred Limmer, On-Site Computers) about how I’d like to get one of those new wide monitors, he mentioned that he had one in his truck that a previous customer
Marketing
Does one ever get work unless the deck is stacked?
So the Brains on Fire Blog has a post about how they don’t respond to RFPs as an agency (with the exception of “unless we have the inside track or we write them” (which is really no exception at all). Good for them, and I mostly agree. At our company, we do some times respond
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