So my attention was called to a post by one of my favorite thinkers in this space, Olivier Blanchard (aka The Brand Builder) about a fly by night certification scam (not the first, and I’m sure not the last to sucker people in) called International Social Media Association. I won’t even try to pull the [...]

In contemplating the words I’d like to see drop from use in this industry in 2010, I began to ponder the larger concept of labels and how they limit us. As humans we have this need to conquer our universe, and one way we do that is by labeling anything in it. Sure, this helps [...]

In which I discuss the need to look beyond the minutia of the daily and into the future, charity, and more.

(if you follow me on Twitter, you will see this twice – once direct from Utterli and once from the blog)

I’m talking about workshifting space hogs over on Workshifting today. Are you “That Guy”? Do you know “That Guy”? It’s time to stage an intervention.

Since Twitter has been reaching the mainstream in a big way lately, there are more and more ways people are trying to “game” the system. The most popular method for this is the follower/following count scam.
There are a variety of ways to pull this off. There are several “programs” and “systems” that promise thousands of [...]