Archive for May, 2010

Quote o’ the Day

Friday, May 21st, 2010

“Happiness is a butterfly which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Facebook Pages Need …

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

… a way to moderate fan photos and videos before they get posted to the page. I mean sure, you can delete material once it’s posted (and block the offending poster), but why not have a filter, ala moderated blog comments?

Have You Played Atari Today?

Wednesday, May 19th, 2010

Remember Atari commercials like this one?It’s a long way from Red Dead Redemption.

25 Years of Bledded Wiss

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

Changing “twenty-one” to “twenty-five” in the final verse doesn’t change much, and if Ogden Nash can try and rhyme “marriage” and “courage” then he probably wouldn’t mind, anyway.

“The Anniversary”

A marriage aged one
Is hardly begun;
A fling in the sun,
But it’s hardly begun;
A green horse,
A stiff course,
And leagues to be run.

A marriage aged five
Is coming alive.
Watch it wither and thrive;
Though it’s coming alive,
You must guess,
No or yes,
If it’s going to survive.

A marriage aged ten
Is a hopeful Amen;
It’s pray for it then,
And mutter Amen,
As the names
Of old flames
Sound again and again.

At twenty a marriage
Discovers it’s courage.
This year do not disparage,
It is comely in courage;
Past the teens
And blue jeans,
It’s a promising marriage.

Yet before twenty-one
It has hardly begun.
How tall in the sun,
Yet hardly begun!
But once come of age,
Pragmatically sage,
Oh, blithe to enrage
Is sweet marri-age.

Tilt a twenty-fifth cup
To a marriage grown up,
Now sure and mature,
And securely grown up.
Raise twenty-five cheers
To the silly young years,
While I sit out the dance
With my dearest of dears.

“Please, Sir, May I Have Some More Fans and Followers?”

Monday, May 17th, 2010

For years I’ve been singing the “quality, not quantity” mantra as it pertains to social media followers. I’m glad to see that Harvard Business Review has finally caught up. (Hat tip to Barbara for the link.)

Takeaway for marketers: It’s not always about more. Sometimes it’s about better.