For anyone in the SF Area, and attendees of the Salesforce.com Event (Dreamforce), I’ll be buying a round (although rumor has it Manticore will be providing a round too). Feel free to stop by: Tues. Nov.4 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Restaurant Azie, 826 Folsom Street – about a block from Moscone Center. If you are attending Dreamforce, I’ll be speaking at this session (full...

There have been a number of items in the press lately about problems with voting machines, fraud with paper ballots, and other similar topics that bring to mind the hanging chads of Florida. All of these problems are difficult to combat because of the secrecy of ballots, and this made me think: Would you be willing to trade the privacy of your vote in exchange for transparency? If votes were...

I was talking with some friends last night and we were discussing the general decline in community organizations for business people. There are many of them, groups like the Lions, Elks, Civitan, Rotary, Masons, and the Jaycees. All of these organizations still exist but I don’t see their presence the way I remember it a generation or two earlier. I’ve been trying to figure out...

This morning I attended a Seth Godin event, a presentation on his new book Tribes (please click to offset my massive new media experiment debt). I took the Acela down from Boston the night before and had a chance to crash in Hell’s Kitchen, and then head over for the morning session at the New York Times Center. I brought along the camera and audio rig, I’ve found that to be...

Way too much… Time is at a premium. But there is no shortage of cool stuff going on: The Red Sox are fighting it out for the American League Championship (top of the 8th right now). Interesting political stuff going on today with Colin Powell throwing his vote to Obama. Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live – you have to love that, you know the actors can’t stand it but they...

I am going to be passing this over to the Marketing Over Coffee audience later today or tomorrow, but I figured that since there are a lot of Bostonians that read over here I’d give you guys first crack.I have a pair of tickets to The New Marketing Summit coming up on the 14th and 15th at Gillette Stadium. Get a chance to meet the organizers: David Meerman Scott, Paul Gillin, and...

Just an update of what’s been going on with me – after being sick AND it raining last weekend I was able to make up for lost time. I took photographs at all of my nephews and nieces games (2 soccer one football  – you can check out the Sports Illustrated level lens that I rented this weekend looks like over on these Flickr shots (sorry, my contacts only). And since the...