Category Archives: Community Building

Closing out 2010 thinking of you

Tweet Last week my friend Danny Brown posted on the ROI of social media. Now instead of dollars and cents, he looked at how we all give back to our communities. After dwelling on it for a week or so, here’s how I plan on reinvesting into all of you. I appreciate you coming to…

Get Some

Tweet I stopped on my bike ride this morning to focus on two words that always stand out to me on my ride: Get Some. For me, these words always get me thinking about business and personal development. What are your goals? Mine are to be a published author within a year, to start a…

Spurs Social

Tweet For guest post, Jeff asked me to discuss a PR campaign I like. The campaign I want to feature isn’t a traditional campaign and that’s what I like about it. First some background, a friend of mine Cynthia Lee created Motah, her slang for motivate, a website dedicated to collecting video stories from kids…

Chicken + Peanuts = Conversation Starter

Tweet While the recipe mentioned in the title might imply that I am looking to cook up a mean batch of Thai chicken, it’s actually two companies adding value to their coupons in the circular from my Sunday Globe. So how does that start a conversation? Last week, I blogged on how offline advertisements were…

What can you give back to your community?

Tweet On an unseasonably warm Sunday afternoon in February, my wife and I went for a free guided tour of the Arnold Arboretum in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. The hour-plus tour was guided by a man named David who volunteers his time giving these educational and fun tours. His community giving got me thinking as to…

My DC snow angel in Boston

Tweet This video is a response to Mike Schaffer‘s vlog over the weekend on doing a snow angel for 12for12K. I am not sure of the bet he lost, but think it could be a fun thing to continue after young Cole made his first one for the charity earlier today. I kind of feel…

Congratulations Scott Brown

Tweet Earlier tonight Scott Brown defeated Martha Coakley for the vacant Massachusetts Senate seat. During the primaries, Brown was seen as a long shot, but after hitting the streets and building a community coupled with a poorly run (weeks off during the holidays) and highly negative campaign by Coakley led to an unprecedented win by…