Archive | September, 2010
The Permission Thermometer – Email and Social Media can get along after all.

The Permission Thermometer – Email and Social Media can get along after all.

It seems like for a while I’ve been hearing this raging debate about whether social media followers or email subscribers are more important and whether social media should just be used as a tool to get people to sign up for your email list. I tend to think it’s a bit more complicated than that [...]

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Re-Monetizing the Tribeswell Website

Re-Monetizing the Tribeswell Website

I’ve decided to make some changes to the Tribeswell website. I’ve currently got just under 300 posts on my blog but the content is buried on a dedicated blog page on the site.  This content could be better utilized (and monetized) with more of a content-centric strategy. Technically my site is already monetized in that [...]

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Are you really NOT watching This Week In Startups? 5 Episodes to get you started.

Are you really NOT watching This Week In Startups? 5 Episodes to get you started.

This Week In Startups is by far my favorite program on the web.  Twice a week the host, Jason Calacanis, who also started Weblogs Inc (which got bought out by AOL for a cool 25 mill) and Mahalo, interviews a different startup founder, takes questions from his virtual audience, and each show ends with a [...]

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It’s a Tech Conference, It’s a Party, It’s Geeks Gone Wild – Highlights from the #combine2010

It’s a Tech Conference, It’s a Party, It’s Geeks Gone Wild – Highlights from the #combine2010

Well folks, if you didn’t make it out to the Combine 2010 conference in Bloomington this weekend, I have to say you missed out.  The were great speakers, great networking, a not-great-tweetup , and a lot of fun was had by all.  Here’s a quick recap for those of you who missed it. Thursday Open [...]

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Would you give advertisers your information?  I would.

Would you give advertisers your information? I would.

We need to make massive changes in the way we think about advertisers, especially when it comes to mainstream media.  I don’t consume a large amount of it personally, mainly because it is overly difficult, expensive and inefficient to do so.  I think there’s a huge opportunity to streamline the process and cost of media [...]

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