What I’m talking about today isn’t anything new. However, it’s still something that I see happen on a regular basis that always makes me scratch my head. Tell me has this happened to you… You are friends with a brand/person/company on Twitter (they follow you and you follow them). You interact with them and have meaningful conversation about each others 140 characters. During this time, their profile has a respectable follower to following ratio. Flash-forward [...]

It’s the final day of Startup Weekend Dallas and everyone is hard at work finishing their presentations for tonight’s showdown which is less than 1 hour away. After lunch Ryan Roberts, Startup Lawyer, briefly gave the crowd a run down of things he’s seen his startup clients do right over the years. Ryan represents startups that are in various stages of growth. He started his website, startuplawyer.com, to help entrepreneurs grasp the legal aspects of [...]

Day 2 of Startup Weekend Dallas is nearing an end and the troops are slowly but surely clearing out. This year I’m working with a group of 7 and our goal is to create an app that will allow restaurant goers to rate their meals while dining out. Our name is OnDaMenu and you can follow us on Twitter or fan us via Facebook. We’ve managed to throw together the foundation of our social presence [...]

Startup Weekend Dallas has officially launched! By registration numbers this is the largest SWDallas event to date. It’s running in unison with Global Entrepreneurship Week. There are 23 Startup Weekend events going on worldwide this weekend and around 40,000 GEW events total. Also going is the Global Startup Battle. For Global Startup Battle, each of the winners at the Startup Weekend events will have 24 hours to make a 90 sec video pitch. Those videos [...]

Here at the first night of Startup Weekend Dallas this fall and ready to hear some great ideas from this awesome crowd! I just got to catch up with the great guys from Proxomo that I had the privilege of working with at the first Startup Weekend in Dallas. They are making great progress and are currently in private beta. “Proxomo being back at Startup Weekend is a homecoming for us. A year later we’ve [...]

From the looks of things it would seem as if I haven’t been writing but au contraire! While I will admit my production has slowed, I’ve also been working on a some other projects like volunteering for DFW AMA, writing an ebook, and drafting up a plan for world domination. In fact, I’ve got 5 yummy little nougats of tips and advice sitting in draft format just waiting for me to clean them up and [...]

That’s right! I’ll now be speading the word on marketing, public relations, reputation management, social media and much more as the Dallas Marketing & PR Examiner on Examiner.com.

At the beginning of this year I knew I needed to get my tail in gear. As a social media enthusiast and online brand management wanna be expert, I’ve known for quite some time I need to do a better job of practicing what I preach. Yet, I have always found it exhausting to take a dose of my own medicine.

You’ve got to start somewhere and I can’t think of a better place than right here and right now. Don’t get me wrong, I got my start a long time ago when I used to send emails to my best friend through Juno and dial-up Internet service.