This article, authored by Tony Wright, is a nice breakdown of the traits of two types of entrepreneurs; builder entrepreneurs and business entrepreneurs. Builder entrepreneurs are those who “designed, coded, played sysadmin, and played all sorts of other production roles for their startups”. Tony goes on to write that business entrepreneurs don’t “really have a […]

As social media continues to sneak its way into the mainstream, several are trying to figure out the optimal way to engage their users, clients, members, students, opportunities, constituents… the list goes on. The best way to start understanding how social media may work for your situation is to start with simple social web research. […]

I found a handful of interesting links this morning from my Google Alerts I thought I would share, all having to do with social media and how it is playing a big part in today’s world.
The following article does a fine job explaining how social media played a large role in the latest presidential […]

What is that, you ask? Social Web Research is something for everyone. The world is changing. Traditional marketing mediums are losing their competitive edge. Look at how president-elect Obama took the election, with a grass-roots, very much web-enabled approach. By using the social web mediums, Obama and his team were able to mobilize volunteers and […]

A few of my friends are convinced that they need to learn a programming language, and I am very excited about that. Having web programming experience is unbelievably valuable, especially if you plan to do any business in the web-o-sphere. Before you can lock yourself in your room for a month and learn a programming […]

In the process of moving data from my old pc to the new macbook pro, I have had a terrible time trying to get my development environment to run smoothly. After trying to get the apache/mysql/php stack that comes with leopard to work, I scratched it and thought I would try something simpler for time’s […]

It has been a crazy week and a half. Starting with FOWA, Jon Hinson (code monkey and co-founder of TeacherHubs, sole-developer of Get a Roomy) and I had a great time listening to all of the speakers. We were able to meet Kevin Rose of Digg and Gary Vaynerchuk of WineLibrary TV. The networking opportunities […]

During FOWA, Emily Boyd of RememberTheMilk.com (RTM) showed an awesome application of their task list web app. First off, RTM allows a user to create different tasks for different categories (personal, study, work, etc.). Tasks may be described with a quick description, given due dates and assigned levels of priority. That is great and all, […]