I’m sitting in here Big Sky, Montana at the beautiful home of Kelly McDonald celebrating her big 5-0 with a new friend, Pam Atherton. I was introduced to Kelly through our mutual friend, Jeff Hurt. Kelly and I met in-person at the Association for Accounting Marketing Conference and have been friends ever since. Kelly is…
Last week I was on a call of an informal group of social media leaders. The purpose of the call was to exchange best practices and share ideas on the industry and how it applied to a specific niche. All of the participants on the call were thought leaders and everyone wanted to be on…
It’s no surprise that Midori and I, along with our community of colleagues love to push the limits of creativity, try to things and help people, associations, events and companies embrace technology. However, in order to be successful at moving the communications and gatherings through the journey to progress, it is important to do it…
Last week at EventCamp Twin Cities, I delivered a 6 minute Pecha Kucha session on the topic of Using Social Media for B2B Marketing. In the short presentation, I told a story about my friend Tim. Recently I received a call from Tim asking me how he could use social media to support his sales…
Charles Caleb Colton, an eccentric English writer once said that “imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.” Well let me tell you, I have seen a ton of flattery going on in the last few weeks. I may have mentioned this in previous posts, but when my friend, Andrew Rose, presents, he always ends with…