$493 For Zion’s Children of Haiti: Food Program

October 5, 2011

I just sent $493 – via PayPal – to Zion’s Children of Haiti. To be clear, I personally did not donate $493. Instead, I was joined by 27 other amazingly awesome individuals – all who contributed between $3 and $50. As mentioned in a previous post, Help Send a Child To School For a Year, [...]

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Gay Rights = Human Rights

October 3, 2011

My friend Scott Stratten shared this picture on his Facebook Wall yesterday. As far as I can tell, it was originally uploaded by David Hein (co-writer/Performer at My Mother’s Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding, according to his Facebook page). It seems to be making it’s way around the intertubes the past few days – which is awesome. [...]

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Help Send a Child To School For a Year

September 18, 2011

As part of last month’s 28-Day Challenge (Good Deeds)*, I created an opportunity for the 100+ participants to do an “easy” good deed: Donate $2 to Zion’s Children of Haiti. For each $220 that is raised, this organization will send one child to school for a year. *Yes, I still need to write a blog [...]

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Why I Intentionally Deleted Email From My Phone

September 7, 2011

Yes. You read that correctly. 9 days ago, on August 29, 2011, I intentionally deleted my personal and work email accounts from my iPhone. Still not convinced? Check out the video of me actually deleting my email accounts. Can’t see the video? Try viewing directly on YouTube. Why Did I Do This? Before I answer [...]

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Waldow Social: My Successful Social Media Experiment

August 28, 2011

On July 1, 2011 my employment at Blue Sky Factory was terminated – effective immediately. One week later, I emailed 8 of the top social media folks in the industry asking them to film a 30-second “Hire DJ” video. 10 days after termination, I launched Project Awesome. So why the big, smiling, jumping off a [...]

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How To Run An Effective SMS (Text) Campaign: Red Mango

August 24, 2011

As of 3 weeks ago, I had never heard of Red Mango. Now, I’m an evangelist. Besides the fact that they serve all-natural, amazingly tasty, frozen yogurt, I’m also extremely impressed by their in-store marketing and effective use of SMS (aka, text messaging). Kristina (my wife), Eva (our 17 month old), and I went to [...]

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Speed Stacking Teaches Life Skills

August 20, 2011

Have you ever heard of speed stacking (definition)? I had not until this morning. I was at the Salt Lake City Farmer’s Market when I passed a booth with two boys in it. They were “stacking” cups. Actually, they were stacking cups at a dizzying speed. So fast, in fact, that if I wasn’t there [...]

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Social Fresh Charlotte: Win A Free Pass

August 18, 2011

***UPDATE***: The winners have been chosen. The winners have been chosen. Drum roll? Huge congratulations to Meg Crawford and Cole Watts for locking up FREE passes to Social Fresh Charlotte. Thanks to Brian Saemann and Misty Wuori for participating. In the end, it came down to Meg being first to enter and Cole’s awesome video from his brother [...]

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Why I Just Switched To Livefyre

August 16, 2011

I have been using the commenting system Disqus for a few years now. I absolutely love it – clean interface, great spam blocking, easy to keep up with the conversation (via email alerts), avatar integration, a slick interface. Overall, it’s a killer blog commenting system. So, why did I just switch to Livefyre? Jenna Langer [...]

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28-Day Challenge: Good Deeds

August 3, 2011

There are not many things more powerful and personally satisfying that doing a good deed. Starting on Monday, August 8, 2011, I’m inviting you to join me in my next 28-Day Challenge. If you are new to these challenges, take a few minutes to read the recap from the last one (eliminating harmful food additives) [...]

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