50 State Quest: Number 45, North Dakota

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One of the best parts of traveling in the US is to experience the wide open spaces. In the past year I have been to several Midwestern and Plains states for the first time as part of my 50 state quest. Places are so flat that the horizon is much further away than it is [...]

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The Storytelling Power of Spam Comments

I am a big fan of spam comments on my blog (the other one that has posts and traffic), and occasionally I like to collect them and share them. Today I received three comments on the same blog post. Each is fun and unique in its own way, but taken together, they almost tell a [...]

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Nobody Walks in LA

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Earlier this month I traveled to Los Angeles. When I travel to urban areas I never even consider renting a car. I don’t like to hassle with driving directions from the airport, even with a rented GPS, or the parking in a city. If a city is not walkable I’ll just take a cab. Even [...]

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My Year of Travel: 2012

I started 2012 with a trip to Las Vegas and ended with a trip to Fort Myers Florida. In between I traveled over 82,000 miles to 36 different cities over 126 days. That’s about one-third of the year on the road and 86% of it was business travel. That’s not to say that I didn’t [...]

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How PR Firms are Still Doing It Wrong

Sometimes a rant is longer than a tweet and doesn’t quite seem right for a Facebook post. So here I am. This morning I got an email from a PR firm telling me that their client made a video that might interest me and would be of interest to my readers. Keep in mind that [...]

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My Year in Travel: 2011

I’ve had a busy travel year, between speaking engagements, conference attendance and a new job. I traveled to many parts of North Carolina, 9 different states, including California 3 times, Texas 3 times, New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Arizona, Connecticut, Florida and Wisconsin, as well as Washington DC. I also visited 3 different cities in 2 [...]

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Why My Mom is Now a Fan of Radian6

I have been involved in social media, both personally and professionally, for over six years. While that pales in comparison to my more than 20 years of marketing experience, it is a long time to be involved with such a new area of marketing and communications. My career path has taken me from client-side marketer [...]

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Some NYC Instagrams

I took a quick business trip to New York City yesterday, and I had some wander time in the middle of the day. I was at the edge of SOHO and the Village and I took a few pictures with my iPhone. I was in an Instagram mood, so I shot the photos with Instragram [...]

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Dinner at Uchiko. Even Better than Uchi

Tonight we ate at Uchiko, a Japanese Farmhouse Dining restaurant. It is the alternate version of Uchi, which is a more traditional Japanese sushi restaurant. Kipp and I went without a reservation, and were seated immediately at the sushi bar. This meant that during our meal, we interacted with one of the sushi chefs who [...]

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Dinner at Uchi

Last year while at the South By Southwest Interactive (SXSW) Festival in Austin Kipp Bodnar, Dave Thomas and I had dinner at Uchi. It was an amazing meal, and Kipp and I are definitely going back this year. I had an annotated menu that listed what we ate, and I figured this was the best [...]

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