Archive for November, 2007

Speaking at DMA & NEDMA in 08

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

I recently finalized my first two speaking engagements for 2008. It looks like a straight shot south, then a direct line north for me in March & April. At both of these events I am going to be presenting my "From Inbox to iPod" talk. I am looking forward to ...

The Email Standards Project

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

Hats off to our friends in Australia at Freshview for spearheading the launch of the Email Standards Project. This is an important movement and one that all email marketers and particularly those on the design side should embrace and participate in. The Email Standards Project is about working with email ...

links for 2007-11-27

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

One Laptop Per Child Do something wonderful this holiday season. (tags: laptop education technology kids laptops charity) Consider Your Media-as-Business Strategy Good thoughts on making media as part of your biz strategy from Chris Brogan (tags: blogging Business email entrepreneur media podcasting socialmedia technology tools web2.0) Share This

links for 2007-11-21

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

Bootstrapper ยป Top 100 Entrepreneur Podcasts Top 100 Entrepreneur Podcasts by Bootstrapper - great blog if you havent seen it before! (tags: entrepreneurship podcast podcasts entrepreneur) Share This

The Importance of Public Speaking

Monday, November 19th, 2007

I have been meaning to write on this topic for a while now, and have finally gotten around to putting some of my thoughts on public speaking into a post. About 6 months ago, I realized just how much of a positive impact that my public speaking has had on ...

links for 2007-11-18

Sunday, November 18th, 2007

Email contacts - the natural social network Interesting thoughts on email from Don Dodge (tags: emailmarketing email socialnetworks networking networks socialmedia marketing media facebook google web2.0) Email Is NOT Dead Scott Karp states the truth! (tags: emailmarketing email marketing technology web2.0 socialmedia socialnetworking socialnetworks networking Business media rss) The case for the community CEO (+ 8 ...

State of Email Metrics Survey Results

Sunday, November 18th, 2007

This past week, my colleague, and as tough as it right now, fellow Ravens fan, Simms Jenkins from Bright Wave Marketing, and producers of the excellent site Email Stat Center, recently posted the results of their first annual "State of Email Metrics" survey results. Some highlights from the results: Frequent Measurement is ...

Holiday Trends - Digital or Paper Survey

Saturday, November 17th, 2007

This week at Blue Sky Factory, we launched a holiday correspondence survey to our client, prospect and newsletter subscriber base. The idea is to find out how organizations are sending their holiday greetings and invitations, ie. paper or digitally through email. We have gotten some pretty interesting responses so far, ...

Tech Cocktail Chicago Tonight

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

2007.09.06-Tech-Cocktail-4124 Originally uploaded by Greg Cangialosi Tonight is Tech Cocktail Chicago number 6. The nations premiere technology networking event returns to the place where it all began once again. If you are in the windy city area hopefully you can make it ...

Metrics, Measurement and Social Media

Monday, November 12th, 2007

This is going to be a fun one, as this post has given me the opportunity to write down and organize all of the various thoughts that have been running through my head around social media and its overall impact on business and marketing, in my own experience. Geoff Livingston ...