Today, John Reese took a couple bloggers to task, including one who writes for Mashable. (disclosure: John is a friend of mine)
If you’d like to hear the perspective of someone who is both a good human and a great marketer, you can read his reply to these guys. Calling John an “e-book salesman” is kind of like calling Tiger Woods a duffer.
Want to get 4 million views on your YouTube video in a hurry?
Just use YouTube’s new interactive features (speech bubbles, notes and spotlights) to perform a magic trick for the viewer.
Very cool.
Andrew Baron, creator of the Rocketboom Podcast (one of the first and most well-known) put out a request via Twitter asking people to call the number 867-5309 (remember…Tommy Tutone song) from all area codes — and better yet, to report their findings on the Rocketboom Wiki.
Here’s Andrew Baron’s Twitter page, from where the call-out was made.
And here’s the Wiki where people are leaving their results. (I’m assuming they’ll do a story on the Rocketboom Podcast.)
Using podcasting, Twitter, and a Wiki – all for a fun experiment. How can you apply this to your own online marketing? Maybe use it as an excuse to promote your own Twitter page – or better yet, your own wiki or community. The point of the story is a case study of someone using three burgeoning Web 2.0 media to gather and deliver information.
I thought it was cool.
(Note: In Atlanta, you don’t get Jenny. You get some guy who’s probably not happy I called him at 2:00 a.m.)
Many of our colleagues at Kate Aspen are from China, and a lot of them have friends and family members who were personally affected by the recent tragedy in Southwest China. This two-minute video gives you a small glimpse of the unbelievable devastation.
Avery and Alexandra wrote a poem for mom for Mother’s Day . . . .
Internet marketer and social media expert, Julie Perry (who used to work at Free IQ) was on the news in Fort Lauderdale the other night. (video on the right of the page) The hit and run driver who put her and a friend in the hospital and left half her face paralyzed has never been found. That sucks. But if you need an internet marketing consultant who’s an expert on social media marketing, Julie’s the best!
This year’s coolest golfer on the planet is PGA pro, Brian Davis.
If I was wondering why I went all the way to Los Angeles to listen to speakers at a three day conference, which has little to do with Internet Marketing, the question was just answered.I’m sitting in the main ballroom of the Beverly Hilton listening to Michael Milken moderate a panel with three speakers who are literally changing the world:
Very cool.
This is my second year attending the Milken Global Conference. It’s a pretty amazing three days, with world experts on every topic imaginable all in one place talking about solutions to world problems and trying to predict “What’s Next?” As an example, here are the breakout sessions availble for the time slot after lunch today:
Financial Convergence: The Changing Investment World Global Risk: What’s Keeping the Experts Up at Night? Lowering Barriers to Investing in China’s Small Businesses The Future ofHealth Care: What Kind of Reform Makes Sense?
Innovator: Across the Universe With Physicist Lisa Randall
Harnessing Growth to Break Poverty’s Grip on the Developing World
Institutional Investor Activism
Giving It Away Takes Creative Effort: Philanthropy Tales From Those Who Know
Moving From Me to We: The New Competitive Edge
Eliminating Malaria: A Workshop
The Increasing Impact of Online Teaching in Primary and Secondary Schools
Book Signing: Dalia Mogahed - Who Speaks for Islam?: What a Billion Muslims Really Think
Book Signing: Jared Cohen - Children of Jihad: A Young American’s Travels Among the Youth of the Middle East
Book Signing: Reza Aslan - No god but God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam
I received this email today. I haven’t had a chances to run it by Snopes or verify any of these. But I thought some of them were pretty funny and you might enjoy them.
Classic but witty insults from some of the world’s wittiest . . . .
“He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.”
Winston Churchill
“I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.”
Clarence Darrow
“He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.”
William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)
“I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn’t it.”
Groucho Marx
“I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”
Mark Twain
“He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.”
Oscar Wilde
“I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend… If you have one.”
George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill… followed by Churchill’s response:
“Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second, if there is one.”
Winston Churchill
“I feel so miserable without you; it’s almost like having you here.”
Stephen Bishop
“He is a self-made man and worships his creator.”
John Bright
“I’ve just learned about his illness. Let’s hope it’s nothing trivial.”
Irvin S. Cobb
“He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others.”
Samuel Johnson
“He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up.”
Paul Keating
“He had delusions of adequacy.”
Walter Kerr
“Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?”
Mark Twain
“His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.”
Mae West
“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.”
Oscar Wilde
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