It may seem like a silly question. Most folks are pretty adept at answering the question, “What do you do?” But this weekend at BarCamp Memphis, one of the conversations I got into tossed around the question and what the right answer should be. Its something that I’ve struggled with and I bet others have too… especially when trying to explain to mom what it is you do!
Ok, so lets take a crowd sourced stab at answering this one. Here are some ideas to get you thinking… Read the rest of this entry
Those are the words of my friend Mitch Canter, the self-described Chief Creative Mercenary of studioNashVegas.com. Mitch is one of, in fact probably the first, professional WordPress Theme developers I ever met in person, all the way back at BarCamp Chattanooga. Just like Dave Barger, last week’s recommendation, I keep running into Mitch at BarCamps and WordCamps all over the place. He is a wealth of knowledge about our blogging platform of choice and can truly make it dance and sing… and that’s why he is my Follow Friday recommendation this week.
You may have seen Mitch’s work without even knowing it. He’s done several projects that would be considered high profile, but the one’s he is most proud of is web-strategist.com, the personal blog of well known social media observer and analyst, Jeremiah Owyang. Read the rest of this entry
You know how you look back sometimes and wish you’d paid more attention in school? I’ve been having those moments lately as the conversation has turned toward the Web Economy. Its not that I didn’t like or didn’t pay attention to Mr. Gipson during Ecom class, I just didn’t understand the application to real life. Well, now I know.
The Old (Current) Web Economy
As the Internet has been maturing, our first forays into business online mimicked those of our off-line exploits. Following the rules of the industrial age, it was based on a scarcity mentality… get our products to market first, be the best, horde all the customers and put everyone else out of business. That approach worked really well when, for instance, you were the only car dealership in town. You had a captive audience. It was great!
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