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January 2010 Blog Posts (213)

Super Bowl Sponsorship - Minus Advertising?

As a self-proclaimed sponsorship geek, I am very interested in Papa John’s Super Bowl strategy – particularly as it plays out against rival Pizza Hut. http://promomagazine.com/eventmarketing/news/papa-johns-super-bowl-sponsor-0114/

Papa John’s has purchased rights to be the Official Pizza sponsor of Super Bowl XLIV this week in Miami. Now get this: Papa John’s will not buy a 30-second TV… Continue

Added by Julie Grice on January 31, 2010 at 7:01pm — 1 Comment

Google Wave Meeting Agenda Template and a few Wave Tips to boot!

First to start with my tutorial on the Google Wave Meeting Agenda Template. While this may not be the best way to currently hold one's meetings with the increasing amount of bots, features, apps, and gadgets that are being added to wave very soon exporting one's Meeting Wave into a usable and trackable document is not long…

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Added by Ernest Rando on January 31, 2010 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Do you find Power Point Boring? Play with Prezi - I did!!

So this is just awesome!! Low and behold i had to do another Power Point presentation for school next week. Boo000…. However, I found Prezi. Now this web application is just too cool. To give you a quick little run down, because you won’t understand the story otherwise, there is a story that goes through the images “The Parable of the Sadhu” then there are some discussion slides. Now just a word of caution, buckle up before you start this ride!! To visit this presentation on Prezi follow…

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Added by Ernest Rando on January 31, 2010 at 4:30pm — No Comments

To Be a Child Again...and Open to the Positive Possibilities

Just this morning, my daughter decided she was going to make her white animal balloon she got yesterday at a charity event into a zebra, so she asked for a black marker. Both my husband and I told her it would pop, and her reply was “no it won’t.” She grabbed the marker and marked away – making the albino animal balloon into a beautiful zebra – and it didn’t pop.

Her intention was to make that zebra, and it didn’t matter to her that her parents said it wouldn’t work. She jumped out… Continue

Added by Serina Kelly on January 31, 2010 at 8:34am — No Comments

Building solution-oriented comfort in your brand

The landscape of business is intensely challenged during a recession. This process forces marketers to precisely redefine their brands and know exactly what they stand for during tough times. There is a tremendous challenge to interacting with and engaging a nervous recessionary consumer without interrupting their life. Build your brand personality to highlight ease of use and unmistakable experience to encourage your target consumer to spend time learning about your brand, even though they may… Continue

Added by Joby Semmler on January 30, 2010 at 8:40pm — No Comments

"I know you don't know..."

"I know you don't know what this is..."

It was the beginning of a sales pitch that was headed for doom. When the dulcimer player was attempting to sell the activities director on granting her a paid spot on the activities schedule, she made five fundamental errors.

1. She didn't introduce herself. She showed up at the front desk, saying, "I'm here to see the activities director. The receptionist didn't know if she was a family member, or whether she had an appointment. It… Continue

Added by Carrie Lee on January 30, 2010 at 8:30pm — 2 Comments

Hospital Orientation

Our third week of clinicals involved a lot of preparation for next week, when we will be unleashed onto the floor of University 4 Medical-Surgical Unit.…

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Added by Caitlin Davis on January 30, 2010 at 7:00pm — No Comments

There is Art in the Heartland!!

Last night, Andy and I attended the opening of "Art from the Heartland" . It is a juried exhibition featuring more than 70 works by 50 artists from Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan. Paul Klein, Chicago-based curator, art critic, writer and creator of an Art Letter juried more than 400 pieces by 200 artists for this first of what will be a biennial exhibition at the Art Center.

It is an amazing collection… Continue

Added by Lorraine Ball on January 30, 2010 at 9:30am — No Comments

A One-Sided Conversation With My Daughter

"Daddy, are you awake?"

"DADDY!"

"I said, are you awake?"

"I want to watch TV."

"I don't want to watch football."

"You weren't watching it, you were asleep."

"But people don't snore when they rest their eyes."

"How does meditation make you make that noise?"

"Nuh-uh. I don't believe you."

"I'll ask Mommy."

"No, she's — oh, I guess she's meditating too."

"Why can't I watch my… Continue

Added by Erik Deckers on January 30, 2010 at 12:44am — No Comments

Oh What a Spoiled People We Are

Ahhh... to be an American in 2010!

Did you know that the majority of people in the U.S. that are below the poverty line have cable TV? In many countries, the average person doesn't even have shoes. We're complaining in this country that our poor don't have broadband Internet access.

(This is when I sound old...)

When I grew up in Connecticut, none of my neighbors had air conditioning. We used to stay in the basement on hot days because it was cooler down there.… Continue

Added by Douglas Karr on January 29, 2010 at 8:00pm — 14 Comments

My apps are better than your apps

iPhone owners are a funny bunch of people. We already know we're the hippest mobile phone users on the planet and we have no problem flaunting it. But when we get around other iPhone owners we have to find something else to brag about.

That something else is apps. It seems every time I get around another iPhone owner all we do is compare apps. It usually goes down something like this...… Continue

Added by Patric Welch on January 29, 2010 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Are You Linked In?

Are you "LinkedIn" to social media? LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/ is a professional business networking website, which launched in May 2003.

Wikipedia states that Linked In has over 50 Million users in more than 200 countries and territories. According to LinkedIn, a new member joins the site every minute. You can learn some of the basics of LinkedIn at… Continue

Added by Dean Voelker on January 29, 2010 at 3:30pm — 1 Comment

iWars: Will Apple iPad help or hurts Amazon Kindle?

Could 2010 be the year of the e-book reader? First came a wave of announcements at CES from various manufacturers planning to launch their own ebook readers also known as e-readers. A good summary of all announcements and what the manufacturers are planning can be found on engadget. Then came the announcement from Apple about the launch of the highly anticipated… Continue

Added by PK Koduri on January 29, 2010 at 2:00pm — 1 Comment

Why do I like to dress in drag?

I make no bones about it, nor am I ashamed to say it, I love to dress. My t-shirts with my favorite things on them are my way of dressing. I have Batman, Penn & Teller, Lenny and Joe's Fish Tales (a Connecticut seafood landmark with yearly shirts), and one of Napoleon's famous hand in jacket on it. People think it's casual, but I do think of my mood and then pick the shirt. I have some from charity events, all 5 years of Indy Fringe, rock concerts, places we visited, and many others too… Continue

Added by Taylor Martin on January 29, 2010 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Thank you for coming to Bloomington!

I check out Smaller Indiana and BlogIndiana daily, and am so often lost in envy when I read about the tweet-ups and Brewhouse meet-ups (yum, that place rocked!) and other meetings, all in Indianapolis, for I live over a hundred miles south of the City and can't attend those. When the Bloomington conference was announced, I was embarrassingly ecstatic! The people I had met at the larger actual BlogIndiana conference last summer made such a positive impression on me, and I wanted… Continue

Added by Jane Goodwin on January 29, 2010 at 1:00pm — 1 Comment

My Boyfriend Won't Wear a Scarf, This is Why

The man scarf – a rare phenomenon or an everyday juncture?

My job at this lovely establishment means that looking at, feeling and tying scarves are central activities of my life for 40 plus hours weekly. I also happen to be fairly infatuated with the accessory, so it’s typical that I don’t leave these thoughts at my… Continue

Added by Bridget Johnson on January 29, 2010 at 10:55am — No Comments

Papa Roux, the Po' Boy and Smaller Indiana

Dick Davis (of Burger Quest fame) invited me to lunch today and recommended Papa Roux... a Cajun H*** in the Wall over by East 10th and Post Road. We ran into Smoosier Brian Huff having lunch there as… Continue

Added by Douglas Karr on January 28, 2010 at 11:56pm — 1 Comment

Apple announces revolutionary device with a horrible name

I am not going to write today about the hype concerning Apple's big product announcement yesterday. Nor am I going to talk about how shiny and pretty it looks, how thin and light it is or even what it is capable of doing.

What I am going to write about instead is the name Apple chose for this beautiful new device... the iPad.

The what?!?!?

For a second, when I first heard the name while watching the live stream of the event on the Internet, I thought it was a… Continue

Added by Patric Welch on January 28, 2010 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Got Mold ??

WARNING:

DO NOT USE CHLORINE BLEACH TO CLEAN UP OR KILL MOLD

WARNING !!!

Do NOT use Chlorine bleach to kill mold or disinfect moldy areas. It is

not an effective or long lasting killer of mold and mold spores. Bleach

is good only for changing the color of the mold and watering the roots

of the mold.

CHLORINE BLEACH IS INEFFECTIVE IN KILLING MOLD FOR THESE

REASONS:

(1) The object to killing mold is to kill its “roots”. Mold… Continue

Added by Larry Reed on January 28, 2010 at 3:17pm — No Comments

Are Facebook and or Twitter right for your business?

By now I’m sure you're all too familiar with the words “Facebook” and “Twitter”. It seems one of these social media giants gets coverage once a week by Brian Williams on NBC Nightly News. And like all good Business Owners / Executives, I’m sure you’ve asked the inevitable… Continue

Added by Chad Myers on January 28, 2010 at 1:30pm — No Comments