28 Straight Days: A Challenge To Eat Healthier (RECAP)

August 1, 2011

Last week, a few dozen of us wrapped up the second 28-Day Challenge – eliminating harmful additives. Read more about the challenge in this post – 28 Straight Days: A Challenge To Eat Healthier. The quick version of the challenge was as follows: Pick 5 harmful food additives from a list of 10 (or choose [...]

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Does Your Profile Picture Matter?

July 18, 2011

In case you were wondering, the answer is yes … I’m still looking for a job. Lots of options – and directions – to consider. The wheels of #ProjectAwesome are moving and moving fast. Phone calls, interviews, tweets, IMs, text messages, 6100+ views of my interactive resume, and thinking. etc. It’s been fun. August 28, 2011 [...]

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Social Media Experiment: Finding a New Job

July 11, 2011

*8/28/11 Update - Waldow Social: My Successful Social Media Experiment — I’m a big believer that things happen for a reason. In this case, the “thing” was my dismissal from Blue Sky Factory on July 1, 2011 as part of a merger (details announced today). I’m told that it is typical for an acquiring company to [...]

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Raising Your Children To Be Nerds

July 6, 2011

Last year I published a blog post titled Nerds, Dorks, Geeks, and Cool Dudes. I’d encourage you to bounce over there and read/skim it before continuing as it will set the context for the rest of this post. OK. For those that didn’t read it, my point was to distinguish between these various labels we [...]

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Chris Penn: Marketing Technologist, Ninja, Knower of Many Things

July 1, 2011

Earlier this month I had the opportunity to sit down with social media ninja, Blue Sky Factory client, and good friend Jason Falls. In this 8 min, 13 second video interview,  Jason shared with us a bit about how he got to where he is today. In today’s post, I was able to track down [...]

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28 Straight Days: A Challenge To Eat Healthier

June 23, 2011

Most Americans eat like crap. I’m not talking about “super-sized” portions or overeating. I’m talking about common foods that most of us consume every day – crap that is making us overweight (obese), unhealthy, and slowly killing us. Many of these ingredients and/or additives have become household names. However, many more are things we have [...]

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King Arthur Flour Has Human Customer Support Specialists

June 16, 2011

I believe that in order to have killer customer service these days, you need to be slightly north of suck. For those that think social media is the answer, it can be, but not if your company/brand/product/service/event sucks. Oh, and social media isn’t for everyone. I’ve written my fair share of both the good and [...]

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The 28-Day Challenge: RECAP

June 14, 2011

On May 12, 2011, I popped out of bed at 5:15AM. Our daughter had been sick and out of daycare all week. My wife and I were trading off the morning and afternoon staying home with her. At 5:30AM, I left my house and started the 1/2 mile walk to my local Starbucks. 3 minutes [...]

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Honest, Valuable Feedback

June 8, 2011

Honest, valuable feedback. Think about it for a second. When was the last time someone gave you honest feedback, solicited or unsolicited? Was it valuable or just something like, “Great job!”? Did it help you to improve whatever it is you did for the next time? Did it make you are better person? More educated? [...]

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Do You Know What You Are Consuming?

June 6, 2011

In February 2010, Jamie Oliver spoke at TED in Long Beach, California about the “Food Revolution.” Jamie was the 2010 winner of the TED Prize, awarded annually to an exceptional individual who receives $100,000 and…”One Wish to Change the World.” If you haven’t watched this 22-minute talk, stop reading this post and go watch it now. [...]

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