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Posts from ‘May, 2007’

Branding with Gusto!

I went to the NRA show 3 different days and my favorite was on Monday. That was the day when I gut suckered into one of the brands with the 1-2 punch of sizzling bacon and a free t-shirt…I’m an easy sell.
Punch 1) Beautifully lined up bacon. While I was taking [...]

2007 NRA Show – Chicago

I went to my first NRA show yesterday and I didn’t think I was going to make it out alive. I felt like I was being attacked from all sides. Booth after booth. I couldn’t avoid….
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…all the saturated fat!! Everywhere I turned, there was free food being offered to me by food [...]

LikeMind: Early Coffee and Conversation

On Friday morning, I went to my first LikeMind coffee chat at the Intelligentsia on State/Randolph. There were 4 of us and coffee was paid for by Anomaly. I first heard about LikeMind from Mike Maddaloni’s The Hot Iron. In a nutshell, it’s a chance for like-minded people to get together once [...]

Menuism wins Honorable Mention for Web 2.0 Awards

Today SEOmoz announced its Web 2.0 awards for 2007 and to our surprise we got Honorable Mention for City Guides & Reviews!! We didn’t even know we were in the running.

It’s a real honor to be named amongst the other web giants. It recognizes the progress we’ve made and motivates us even [...]

Use NetVibes as your Virtual Office

When you move from a corporate desk job (and HP and Microsoft are as corporate as you can get) to a virtual startup team, you miss out on a lot of things – steady salary, 401k matching, stock purchase plans, and, of course, the office! It wasn’t until a few months ago that I [...]