The Social Media Success Summit is a completely online conference led by social media powerhouses Gary Vaynerchuk, Darren Rowse, Chris Garrett, Brian Clark, Michael A. Stelzner, Denise Wakeman, Ann Handley and Jason Alba – all of whom I follow and respect. I love going to conferences, but there are so many and with a busy [...]
UPDATE: Both presentations and slides are now embedded and linked below. This was my first ever Barcamp, so I wasn’t too sure about what to expect. I was traveling to Atlanta on Friday with work, so I wasn’t sure if I was going to be able to make it to Barcamp Birmingham because we were [...]
I should probably have written a SxSW recap when it was still fresh in my mind, but after being out of the office for more than a week I was swamped. I also came back to a few small changes for the book, which didn’t take long but still added to the overall workflow. Four [...]
I'm in Austin, Texas at SxSW (South by Southwest) for the Interactive portion of the Music, Film and Interactive conference. I'm here with Brant Kelsey, owner of Kelsey Advertising & Design, and Brian & Roman, two of our designers. So far I haven't attended many panels, but have met a lot of great people in [...]
I have always just used a random photograph or self-portrait for my website and avatars on social media websites like Twitter and Facebook. My Facebook profile picture is a photo snapped by a coworker in downtown LaGrange. It's not bad, but definitely out of date and not really "me." I've been considering having professional portraits/headshots [...]