First three via @MarkRaganCEO 60 Thought Provoking Interview Questions And, Chew on these axioms and idioms And another from PR Daily: 22 ideas for creating irresistible content. 4 “seriously-cool” information resources via @portentint 26 Tips for Writing Great Blog Posts    

A recent article in The Buffalo News documents how suburban governments restrict the ability of homeowners to raise chickens on their property. As someone who has raised chickens for nearly a year, I can say with authority that those governments are just being foolish. Are they dangerous? Hardly. Yesterday, one of our “poofs” (Silkies) gave [...]

A simple response to a tweet by @karinejoly led to Medaille’s Facebook timeline cover photo being included in her roundup on collegewebeditor.com on colleges who very quickly made the switch to this new feature. I’m in good company! The story of Keep Calm and Carry On, one of the more recent graphic memes that card-makers and [...]

Just in case people are interested. IABC Planning Meeting March 6, 2012, 5:30 p.m. Buffalo Niagara Enterprise I. Welcome & acknowledgments II. Introductions III. IABC in a nutshell Mission Provide lifelong learning opportunities that give IABC members the tools and information they need to be the best in their chosen disciplines. Share among our membership [...]

A definitive post from @patrickjpowers on Facebook for higher education. Colleges and Pinterest via @emilyatteberry. Best practices for higher education and Pinterest via @higheredlive. “Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” ~ Malcolm Forbes the #140cuse conference on April 19 at Syracuse University (@140cuse)  

So the zooms and shrieks of the Daytona 500 are a dull hum from our living room, and over this weekend I’ve had a brief but lively schooling in the level to which media and social media have become embedded within the racing industry. Did you know that the NASCAR season starts with its biggest [...]

Mac and Cheese is one of my favorite food groups. Peeps and Company, just in time for the Easter season. I bought purple sanded sugar and will be experimenting with making Giant Homemade Marshmallow Peeps. On weekends, when I can wrestle the remote away, I love watching the Food Network. And now I have a [...]

The N.Y. Times article, “How Companies Learn Your Secrets,” didn’t scare me; it just confirmed much of what I’ve already suspected about the sophisticated ways in which brands can just know what you need. Thinkgeek knows that I buy stocking stuffer-ish products each December. Target knows that I have a dog, a lip gloss addiction (image) [...]

NPR had a piece this morning on Barry Wellman’s recent work analyzing Twitter networks and geography: “Why Twitter Ties Resemble Airline Hub Maps.” It’s a new spin on his catalog of research, which I remember reading much of as a graduate student. Dr. Wellman teaches at the University of Toronto (not too far from Buffalo, [...]

Find out the demographics of your Twitter followers with knowyourfollowers.com. Become a Twitter ninja (lordy, I hate that word) in 30 minutes a day via @tweetsmarter Get circled on Google+ via @glengilmore Urban Chicken Backlash by @dlepeska via @rachelbarnhart As long as you have a big enough yard and are prepared to deal with chicken droppings on [...]