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Last Call – Sept. Blog Click-a-Thon (For Flight 93 Memorial Fund)

Posted in Blogging, Fundraising, Inspirational, Personal, Pittsburgh, tagged , , on September 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Today is the last day for the Flight 93 Memorial Fund click-through extravaganza over at Burgh Baby. (I mentioned the month-long initiative in my recent 9/11 post). I’m really trying to drive the point home because this is in the name of helping to preserve the memory of those who lost their lives on 9/11/2001.
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PCPGH3 Friday 5 – The Late, Late Edition

Posted in Blogging, Media, Personal, Pittsburgh, Social Media, Technology, tagged , on September 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »

So, I tend to not read correctly sometimes. I noticed the Friday 5 – Podcamp Style over at the PodCamp Pittsburgh site, but didn’t read that my answers were supposed to be posted by this past Friday. I’m posting them now, … ’cause that’s just how I roll.
PodCamp Pittsburgh is only 20 days away and [...]

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Life Lesson From Age 14

Posted in Personal, Social Media, The Big Idea on September 18, 2008 | 4 Comments »

The other day, I was thinking about the time when I was a high school freshman at a new school and wanted so badly to fit in. I used to pull the all-nighter several nights a week, watching MTV (when it was still Music Television) with re-runs of “Singled Out,” “120 Minutes” and so on. [...]

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9/11. Seven Years to the Day.

Posted in Personal, The Big Idea on September 11, 2008 | 3 Comments »

It seems as if it were only yesterday that I wrote this post somberly reflecting on the five-year anniversary of the September 11 attacks. I could remember exactly what I was doing on Sept. 11, 2001 and all of the events in the days that followed, as we tried to move forward as a nation. [...]

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For Our Third Anniversary, I Got You This New Blog …

Posted in Blogging, Branding, PR, Personal, Professional, Social Media on September 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »

It’s the third anniversary of my blog. Well, the real anniversary actually happened several days ago, but as I deleted the original from Blogspot, I have no sense of the exact date.
So, here we are three years later and I decided that it was time for a rebirth. As you can see: new name, new [...]

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The Michael Phelps Phenomenon

Posted in Advertising, Branding, Business, Media, PR, Sports, Television, celebrities, tagged , , , on September 3, 2008 | 2 Comments »

You probably know the Michael Phelps story now, so there’s no real need for me to rehash all the details. In case you’ve been living under a rock, however, here’s a quick rundown: Phelps had one goal in mind at the 2008 Beijing Olympics – to win eight gold medals. While medaling in all eight [...]

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