Archive for the ‘Entrepreneurship’ Category

SocialDevCamp and the Baltimore Scene

Sunday, May 11th, 2008

I have been thinking about all of the reasons why I have been feeling so good about yesterday's SocialDevCamp. Its a little hard for me to pin down exactly, but all I can say is that it was an absolutely great event. No, it was a special event. Baltimore has ...

Social Dev Camp East - Tomorrow

Friday, May 9th, 2008

Just a quick shout out to anyone in the Baltimore / DC metro area, to let you know or remind you that tomorrow is SocialDevCamp East. Blue Sky Factory is a sponsor of both the event and of the afterparty at the Brewers Art. If you are in the area ...

PNME Panel - Metrics in New Media

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

At last years Portable and New Media Expo (which is now simply the New Media Expo), Paul Vogelzang and Matt Snodgrass both of Porter Novelli joined me on a panel dubbed "Metrics in New Media." The audio version of this session is now online and available on the Podcast Academy ...

The ROI of Social Media - GBTC

Friday, February 15th, 2008

Earlier this week before heading out to the west coast I had the pleasure of participating in Greater Baltimore Technology Council's "Meet the Members" event dubbed "The ROI of Social Media." It was a panel featuring some excellent speakers from the region. The panel consisted of Jared Goralnick of Set ...

West Coast Power Tour

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

I will be on the west coast this coming week from Feb 12 - 16th. The tour begins in San Diego at the Email Evolution Conference, being put on by the Email Experience Council. I am really looking forward to participating, as this is the first annual Email Evolution conference, ...

Baltimore Meetup at Blue Sky Factory HQ

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

Next Tuesday, February 5th, we will be hosting a Baltimore meetup at 6:30pm at Blue Sky Factory's HQ. We will be hanging at our offices for a brief happy hour, then heading out to grab dinner. Right now the plan is to head to SoBo Cafe, but if the group ...

We’ve Acquired Blogarithm

Wednesday, December 19th, 2007

Today at Blue Sky Factory we announced our acquisition of Blogarithm, a leading RSS to email provider. You can read the official press release on our corporate site, here. The acquisition comes on the heels of our purchase of RSSFWD earlier in the year. We have been making lots of tweaks ...

The Launch of SoBotanical.com

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

I am VERY pleased to announce the launch of my wife's new e-commerce website www.sobotanical.com. It's been almost 8 months in the works, and its great to finally see everything come into fruition. After many years of being a master aromatherapist, and launching the first ever aromatherapy bar in the ...

BlogTV Book Interview w/ Somewhat Frank

Sunday, December 2nd, 2007

Frank Gruber and I did a video interview about my new book "The Business Podcasting Book". We missed each other in DC earlier today, so we decided to use BlogTV (which has a cool split screen view), to record the video. It was pretty interesting since Frank nor I had ...

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 ...