In my January travels, I had the good fortune to try out 2 different Kimpton properties in Washington DC - the Hotels Rouge and Helix. Because of our more frequent visits to DC and my intention of staying at these properties again, I took the time over the weekend to fill out their lengthy [...]

I just returned from a hotlap to Atlanta. And the people we went to see there were downtown and had one of those elaborate security processes where you had to check in at the gate, park your car and then a shuttle comes and takes you to the front door a couple blocks away where [...]

Last week I attended the Greenville Chamber annual meeting where our own Courageous President was up for the Athena Award. It was the usual hoopla, but one of the bright spots in the evening was the keynote given by the editor of USA Today, Ken Paulson.
Ken had a lot of great things to say about [...]

This weekend, Geno, Spike & I had the pleasure of working with intimate groups of marketers from around the world who had convened in Los Angeles for a trade show. We shared our experiences of building movements in the US in great detail with folks from Australia, the UK, Canada, and Mexico. While [...]

*There will be some self-promotion here… but I hope to bring it around to a constructive point by the end of the post… so bear with me.*
I am a co-founding member of a theatre company here in Greenville called The Distracted Globe. We specialize in classic comedies and comedy about the classics. While [...]

A very nice write-up about the Fiskateers movement over at the Community Guy blog. It seems we won the “Community Guy Best Social Project of 2006.” And that means a lot coming from someone who knows his stuff.
We love you too, Jake. Thanks for being a kindred spirit.

I just read Hugh McLeod’s How to be Creative. It’s all good.  And worth the read.
Direct (well, edited a bit) from Hugh:
“The world is changing.
Some people are hip to it, others are not. If you want to be able to afford groceries in 5 years, I’d recommend listening closely to the former and avoiding the [...]

Last night I had the pleasure to go see and hear the Songwriters Tour. Guy Clark, John Hiatt, Joe Ely and none other than Lyle Lovett all came out on stage with only their guitars and went down the row, one-by-one, singing some of their favorite songs – no band, no playlists and no agenda. [...]

Earlier this week, Spike, Geno & I had the good fortune to discover a tiny gem in the Manhattan hotel scene. Located only 3 blocks from Bryant Park, the Library Hotel is not just clean, friendly, accomodating and beautifully designed - it is full of surprising touches that made the 3 of us want [...]

Number One:
Ben beat me to it, but our good friend Ted over at Fizz Corp, alerted me to the recent NYTimes article, “Anywhere the Eye Can See, It’s Likely to See an Ad.”
Oh no.
Here’s the gist: The average person is inundated with around 5,000 advertising messages a day. And advertisers are seeing about a 4% [...]