When I worked at World Cafe, we spent an afternoon recording a session with Donovan. He's one of the genuinely nicest guys I've ever met. I'd never have believed he'd become such an important part …
In memoriam: Joe Taylor Sr. 1945-2020
My dad loved cars, music, and his family. One of six siblings growing up in West Philadelphia (and, later, East Lansdowne), every story he told about his childhood always involved …
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Silence is violence.
Mine isn't the voice anyone needs to hear right now about the systemic racism that keeps tearing our nation apart. Yet, as I often tell my clients, silence is acceptance. Today, we now have to …
Why I still love Basecamp after fifteen years
Tara and Shannon from the excellent What Works podcast (and from the What Works Network, of which I've been a member for years) rounded up a crew of folks to talk about their favorite project …
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The Syllabus 2020: The Brand You 50
For the first 12 weeks of the new year, I’m highlighting what I’ve been calling The Syllabus: a dozen books that have positively improved my life and my career. I often recommend them to clients and …
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Personal Branding’s a bunch of bulls#!t! (But we’re going to need it, anyway.)
A few weeks ago, a friend of mine and I got into a debate over personal branding. We argued whether the notion of a “personal brand” seems like anything a true professional should need or want. For …
How I’m using Facebook these days
Earlier in the year, I wrote about getting louder and how I hadn’t really been active on Facebook very much in the past few years. Even though I was one of the platform’s earliest …
Introducing Podcast Taxi
It was just a matter of time. For years, I've been recommending podcasts, audiobooks, and other personal audio recordings as a pillar of a successful content marketing strategy. In a media …
Beautiful evening. You can almost see the stars!
Jay Frank gave a toast when Lori Taylor and I got married that might have been as long as the actual ceremony. And though I teased him about it in the years since, I never doubted his …
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An Hourglass and a Flower Pot
It’s the fall of 1987. There’s a new kid on the school bus. An Army brat, if I remember, or maybe the son of a frequently-transferred corporate executive. He was at our Catholic high school for …
Marketing on the post-organic web
The "level playing field" we enjoyed online from the early 2000s now looks a lot more like broadcast media from the late 1980s. Let's talk about what it's going to take for your business to …
Measuring your messaging’s real ROI
You've got "reach." You've got "engagement." You've even got "amplification." But all the online media jargon in the world won't help you if your content marketing campaigns don't convert to actual …
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