Innovative marketing? Thy name is Mahaffey. You will definitely want to listen to this interview to hear all about this tent and party rental company’s seriously creative QR code campaign constructed with Mahaffey’s Marketing Manager, Beth Wilson. We offer our kudos, and look forward to more awesome uses of QR codes. I mean just look [...] [...more]
Rethink the term “Young Entrepreneur,” folks, because Cole is an 11 year old man-with-a-plan. This past weekend, Cole took his and his brother’s idea for a musical instrument tutorial site to the 48 Hour Launch. Now, he has a domain, a Facebook page, Twitter (@bandtutor), and some real momentum behind his clever idea. Listen in [...] [...more]
Our 2011 kick-off podcast touches on a wide array of topics, but we’ll give you a little preview here: QR codes, the latest in location-based services, default settings (and the pros and cons thereof), customization, and hand-crank phone chargers. Confused? Listen to the podcast, and it will all become clear! But here are a few [...] [...more]
Today’s breakfast had a great crowd, which was fantastic because we crowd-sourced our topic! To kick off the year, we decided to ask Expeditioners for their Predictions for 2011 in social media and technology. It seems many of the members are placing their bets on QR codes and mobile devices. Of course it’s all speculation, [...] [...more]
Happy almost 2011! Only a few hours until champagne and resolutions, so while we had some time left before next year, the Social Expedition took the liberty of gazing into our fancy high-res crystal ball to see if we could decipher the future. We couldn’t, but we can still make some guesses. Listen in for [...] [...more]
Can using your cell phone on an airplane cause the controls to malfunction? Apparently not. But since take-off and landing are the most likely times for some kind of problem, the airlines probably ask you to “turn off all electronics” so you aren’t distracted in the case of an emergency. Or perhaps, as Andy Glover [...] [...more]
November’s Twilight Camp was about 3 years ago, but fortunately we took some notes and finally have a recap. We discussed several trends branching across several tech categories: Content Farms: What are they and are they the root of evil or good? The purpose of Content Farms are to increase SEO results. Agencies like Demand [...] [...more]
You’d know Mark if you ran into him. He’s pretty tall, good humored, and is usually wearing a Mark’s Menus tee-shirt. Also, he’s a talented developer and can deliver a winning escalator pitch. On this week’s podcast, he shares some of the hurdles and triumphs he’s met in co-founding Mark’s Menus. If you live in [...] [...more]
This go ’round, we added just a smidge of structure to our still very casual monthly meetup: We went around the room and asked everyone to name one “Yay!” and one “Boo!” they’ve found in the webosphere recently. For “Yay’s,” folks tossed up… The new Twitter platform A virtual meeting site called TalkShoe The just-announced [...] [...more]
Alright, that may have been an obvious title for the podcast, given the guest. But a fascinating guest! Maggie Louie is the Online Media Specialist and Product Manager at the E. W. Scripps Company, which (amongst other things), is responsible for the awesome Inside Scoop daily deals, which can be seen everyday on the homepage [...] [...more]
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