After one of our clients recently set up a twitter account for her company and we connected, she sent me an email that read "OK, seriously - how did you manage to get 439 people to follow you? I mean, I'm sure you're an interesting guy, but 439? The race is on!"
I had to admit that 400 wasn't really that many compared to a lot of the people I follow, and we continued a conversation about how twitter and other social networks could fit into their marketing plan. In keeping with my new years resolution to blog more for clients than creatives, I thought this topic would make a good blog post - so here we go: how to use social media for your business (an introduction).
Read the rest at sxates.com: http://sxates.com/business/getting-started-in-social-media-twitter-for-business/
Used music stores don't sell 8-tracks anymore, or cassette tapes. But I've found several that sell old records. Something about vinyl gives it an enduring quality.
It's been probably 15-20 years since I played a record, but having found a couple of local caches of vinyl gold, I decided to give it another go. I don't know what it is about vinyl, but its a unique music experience for me, that my computers and iphones and zunes just can't match.
I found a couple of old turntables in storage that I tried cleaning up, but they didn't work very well. For Christmas I got 3 turntables, 2 new, 1 very old. I'm sending the new ones back in favor of the 70's model pictured below. It was my grandparents, and my dad has been doing some restoration work on it. It needs a bit more tweaking, particularly the amp, but it's working well enough that I've got it hooked up and playing some Simon & Garfunkel tonight.
I think the thing with vinyl is that it requires your undivided attention. We hear music in the background all day long - while we work, while we drive, while we shop, while we watch tv... It's constant, but never the center of attention. When you have to place a needle and can physically watch the music play, you have to just sit back and listen, and enjoy.
“Working with Microsoft to develop some cool windows 7 gadgets that use location based services. Netbook + Location = lots of possibilities”
Spent monday out at the track - good times!
This is what most people do with the phone books you paid to advertise in.
