The Cotton Club Blog & Podcast
After a brief hiatus The Cotton Club was back online this evening w/ Keith Crawford, Tyler Presley, Steven Trotter, Chris Spencer, and Mike Fraietta to discuss Google+. Being that Google+ is fairly new, this was the first chance for me to really connect w/ some of my friends to get their take on the new […]
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One thing that I always like to point out on my blog are cool brands or businesses that I run across who are using social media to grow their business and to communicate with their base. I didn’t have to look very far to find the topic for this post, instead I ran across this […]
I have known about Klout for a while but only recently did I start using it frequently and recommending it to clients as a tool to track their social media efforts as well as gain insight into their network, etc. The fact that Klout now pulls in Facebook in addition to Twitter makes it a […]
I had the opportunity this week to record another episode of The Cotton Club with Keith Crawford, Amy B. Hole, Brant Collins, Robert Blake, and Calvin Hill. On this episode we all discussed some of our favorite brands of 2010 and what it was we liked about each one. Last week I summarized some of […]
Today I started thinking about all of the startups, services, and brands that I was introduced to, influenced by, or impressed with this past year and it gave me an idea to do this post. Being an entrepreneur of sorts I do my best to stay aware of trends and absorb as much innovation and […]
This past week Keith Crawford, Luke Irvin, and I sat down with the CEO of Footfeed, Dennis Mink to discuss their brilliant iphone application. Footfeed is a new mobile geo location check-in aggregator network that brings together many web services so users can checkin to many networks simultaneously. Built from the ground up as a […]
The big story today in our industry was the announcement that a lot of applications inside the Facebook social network exposed certain information about users. Granted Facebook has done a lot to promote privacy within their platform, they even reinvented and simplified their privacy controls for users. I don’t think that Facebook is solely responsible […]
Last week my partners and I were discussing social media and how it fits into our spectrum of products and services. Just like any business we want to bring as many products and services to the market as we possibly can that will increase revenue. After all, that’s the name of the game right? Whenever […]
It has been a few weeks since we released an episode of The Cotton Club so last night Keith Crawford, Steven Trotter, Craig McCoy, Abbi Siler and I all sat down to record one. For some reason the quality on this episode isn’t as good as previous episodes so please bear with me as we […]
This past weekend I took my wife on date night to see ‘The Social Network’, the story of Facebook, or at least an account of the story shared in the popular book ‘The Accidental Billionaires’ by Ben Mezrich. From what I have gathered, the research for the book was based primarily on legal transcripts so […]
