This is my 100th blog post! My first was released October 19, 2009. I started out talking a lot about online marketing and technology but soon started dropping in some personal stories and almost always included some opinion. I put them into 14 categories and listed them below with the most current listed first in each category. There are links (underlined) to the ones I think are the best but you can go to the site and enter the title words in the search box just under my picture to find any of the 99 if you wish to read them. Here goes.
Business (8)
How Corporations Should Prioritize Social Media Budgets
ROI Perspectives of Social Media
Online Advertising Forecast Up 11% in 2010
Should I Do A Blog or Newsletter?
The Business Model (This was an attempt at a video post; and not very good)
6 Great Reasons for a SMB to Follow Internet Marketing Industry News
How Web-Savy Are Seniors?
Losing Your Website Domain Name-A Near Disaster
Blogging (4) - About blogging
Mashable is 5 Years Old
6 Reasons Why Bloggers Are Moving to the Front at Fashion Show
The State of Blogosphere
Blog, Blog, Blog and Blog (my first)
Customer Service (5) - Issues that show good or bad customer service
Apple's iPhone 4 Problems
United Breaks Guitars (View the video, it's hilarious and a catchy tune)
My Take on the iPad
Comcast Is Listening But Not Answering
HP's Racist Computer
Education (2) - Articles on the best and worst of what's happening in education
Higher Education: How Colleges are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids (If you have a kid facing college you need to check this out)
Mark Zuckerberg Gives $100M for Education in Newark
InfoGraphics/Videos (12) - The format delivers a huge amount of information in an entertaining style. The Twitter one was one of the first I noticed and best.
Is Social Media Ruining Students?
The Best of April Fools Day 2011
The Value of Being LinkedIn
January 28th was Data Privacy Day
Update on Groupon
Top 25 Most Viewed Videos On YouTube as of July 31, 2010
The Latest InfoGraphics and Video on the Interenet & Social Media
Incredible video on Internet Statistics
Online Metrics
If You Printed Twitter
Music (5) - I do live in Nashville after all so it was inevitable. The Indie Music post details the new go-to-market model for music.
4 Conclusions on the Impact of Digital Natives on Music
What if Napster Had Never Been Invented?
Nashville is the Silicon Valley of the Music Business
Indie Music and Online Marketing
A Possible Nashville Success Story for MusikPitch (this guy has become my friend)
Marketing (11) - I claim Marketing Technologist as my title and The Wow Factor video has a research-based formula that's very interesting and can help anyone.
New Job Title - Marketing Technologist
My Take on QR Codes ( I think this is some my best interpretation of market opportunities)
2 Business Lessons I Learned from the Grassland Community
Online Marketing Delivers Cost-Effective and Measurable Results
Will Groupon Become the Next Hot Social Media? (This was from January of 2010)
Pepsi Breaks 23 Year Super Bowl Streak to Invest in Online Community
Permission Marketing (This is about the Seth Godin book)
The Wow Factor (This is really unique)
B2B Marketers Will Increase Online Marketing Spending in 2010
Enhance Your Marketing Resume
Online Marketing VS Visitors Bureau
Opinion (13) - Let me know if you think my tornado strategy makes sense or I am crazy.
Tornadoes VS Hurricanes VS Software Bugs: A Comparison
Has Social Media Innovation Ended? I Say No
Contribution Value Versus Feel-Good Value for Charities
Why Doesn't the US Government Do Something About WikiLeaks?
Why the Republicans Should Support Defense Cuts
What Can Be Learned from the Chilean Miner's Rescue
Net Neutrality - Blah, Blah, Blah
My Favorite Blogs
Super Bowl Thoughts (This is where I say Payton Manning will not be considered the best quarterback of all time)
Not My 2010 Prediction; My Request
Another Reason Why Google Will Kill Microsoft
The New Velocity of Life and Are We Competitive (one of the best technology videos I have ever seen)
10 Personal Branding Predictions for 2010
Personal (6) -These really have nothing to do with business.
Why I Love Country Music (this post has in my opinion one of the best music videos ever and I have seen all the Lady Gaga videos).
The Nashville Flood May 2010 (I think this is my best written post)
Lessons Learned on How to Deal with Car Repairs
My Visit to Asheville (Guys will appreciate this)
My Weekend in Stone Mountain
Thanksgiving (my 2nd best written post)
Religion (3) - In spite of my sending the last one to my priest, he still does not blog.
6 Social Media Tips for Churches
3 Things You Should Know About Islam (this video has resulted in roughly 50 hours of further study)
Pope Tells Priests to Blog
Sociology (7) - The Digital Natives concept is referenced more in other posts than any other. I think you'll like the joke post.
Internet Usage Among Generations Has One Alarming Trend
Study Shows Reading Slower on iPad & Kindle but Satisfaction Higher
Privacy Discussed on Russian Television
Digital Natives (This made a significant impact on me)
4 Possible Positives of the Kaiser Study on Media Use by 8-18 Year-Olds
Study Reveals Brain's Different Reaction to Surfing Versus Searching
The World's Funniest Joke
Social Media (5) - About the business end of Social Media
New Social Media Value Chart for Marketing
How Web 2.0 Is Having A Positive Impact in Our Lives - A Perspective
How Is Social Media Use Affecting Our Lives?
Facebook Celebrates 500 Million Users
Despite the Recession, 94% of Enterprises Continue to Invest in Social Media
Technology (14) - My Sci-Fi theory of how the Jeopardy incident will be a milestone in the history of how machines conquer man.
New Tool helps Tone Down Emotion in Email
Man VS Machine on Jeopardy - A Milestone of Human Elimination (Having been a life=long fan of sciene fiction, I am proud of my sci-fi story line)
End of an Era, Kodachrome Film Is No More (this post is historic even if I do say myself)
Survey Results on Cell Phone Service & Some Tips
Web 2.0 Summit
Prop 19 (California Marijuana) Would Have Passed on the Internet
Credit Card 2.0 Wins DEMO Award of $1M (if you are a techology buff you'll like this one)
Google Announces Realtime Search Ability
Experts Say We Will Be Working in the Cloud by 2020
Website VS Blog: Which Is Better?
2 of the Top 5 Supercomputers in the World Are in Tennessee (as a Tennessean native, this was pretty cool to know our state has a claim to a high-tech benchmark)
Google Search Tips Video
Google CEO at Gartner IT Expo
Google Search Tips
Social Media for Kids (4) -There are lots of sites that have security as opposed to Facebook
Social Media Monitoring for Parents
The Case for Social Media in Schools
Update on Facebook Security Concerns
Nashville Area Parents Create Safe Social Media Site for Their Kids (This resulted in a relationship with the developers of this applications)
So at this occasion after 99 posts, what have I learned? I have learned how to take a concept and search the internet for supporting documentation and images. I have learned to take data or opinion of some sort and add my perspective and interpretation to the data. I have found that while having to face the inevitable deadline that rather than dread it, I look forward to it as a challenge. I have taken an infographic for example and converted it into a viable post even though frankly I started out to 'phone it in' that day. But most of all I have found in writing a blog that is both an outlet to express opinions AND a mechanism to offset the effects of multi-tasking which most of us have internalized as a way of life. So I will continue to blog even though the subjects may change. Because I like it...