Archive for April, 2009

Step Up 2: Electric Boogaloo – the live blogging experience

Lucky Flash by Robert Swier, on Flickr
I was staying with a colleague in Frederick, Maryland back in September, and his girlfriend (now fiancee) happened to be nannying for a couple of kids. It was movie night over here and the movie we’ve picked (aka, these kids) is Step Up 2: The Streets (aka Step Up [...]

White House Flickr Photostream Remixing Contest

President Barack Obama meets with NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer in the Oval Office 3/25/09. Official White House Photo by Pete Souza
Get ready to fire up Photoshop and create some wonderful remixes. Von Glitschka, an awesome illustrator who I’ve been a fan of for a long time, posted tonight about the White [...]

An example of the power of the brand ambassador

The key to effectively leveraging social media: at some point your brand ambassadors start endorsing your brand on their own, as is evidenced from this conversation I found on Twitter recently (see images below). I see this conversation as a way to know that we’re doing a better and better job of getting the message [...]