UPDATE: This post was originally published in April of 2017, just one week before the social-influencer fueled Fyre Festival bomb that is now the subject of a Netflix and Hulu documentary, both of which I watched eagerly, almost greedily, as I’m sure many of us...
I don’t need to tell you what a horrible year 2017 has been for political animus and deepening divisions in the U.S. It’s been written about time and time and time again. And you know; you’re probably living it, too. But today I learned something...
Content marketing, am I right? We’re all supposed to be producing massive amounts of content to compete with the massive amounts of content clogging the cloud. And this content that you create should be phenomenal because the internet is full of garbage....
UPDATE 2/08/18: Another commenter states that the racist, hateful rhetoric on the /pol/ board of 4chan exists all over the site. He says it’s no longer contained to one small section, and 4chan has generally turned into a recruitment tool for white supremacists....
1/3/18: SEE UPDATE BELOW! 4/21/17: SEE UPDATE BELOW! Ok, 2016 has been terrible. Really, really terrible. Both personally and publicly, some amazing people and animals died. We’ve had an election to end all elections. Everyone hates 2016, right? Remember...
Remember when ranking well in search was 1. easy 2. effective for your business and 3. super cheap? And then came Google’s algorithm updates that destroyed cheap SEO because marketers had to start acting like people again instead of algorithm-dodging robots....
To follow up on Jen’s recent post about Twitter’s eight-year anniversary, I thought I’d compile a short list of mistakes that businesses regularly make on Twitter. Twitter is one of those platforms that everyone thinks they should be on, but that few...
The beginning of 2014 marks four years that I’ve been with Commerce Kitchen. I started working with Tynan, Jamie, and crew just two months after I moved back to Colorado from Los Angeles, where my daughter had been born the previous July and where I had just...
Back when I was a twenty-something-year-old working in entry-level positions and trying to break into the professional world, social media wasn’t a thing. Friendster was launched the year after I finished college, and I was already creeping into non-food service...
Last week I attended a two-day Scrum product owner certification course. Not only is Scrum a strange word to say (scum meets scrape?), but it’s a challenging concept to translate into what I do, which is marketing. We’ve written about agile software...
