All Up in Twitter’s Business

A while back, in the post “Putting the Grrr! in Facebook,” I saved a few lines for the FB offender known as Twitter Newbie. He is a guy or gal who just got their iPhone, or what have you,  and has figured out the thing will pay for itself in just three years if they [...]

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From Big and Grand to Cash on Hand

Sometimes I feel like my clients and I are straddling two eras of web development. By “my clients” I mean those hardworking designer/ developers who raise their clients’ websites up from the good rich soil of teh intarwebs.
And by “we are straddling” I mean HE’s straddling and I’m sitting on his shoulders, dangerously displacing his [...]

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Take a Compliment for Once!

As Dale Carnegie once said,  “Any fool can criticize, and most fools do.” But praise is infinitely harder to come by. I have made a couple of additions to my  Rave Reviews page , so it’s as good a time as any to re-post this bit from October 2008. Enjoy your tasty leftovers, and please [...]

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The Self-Marketing Game

Successful freelance writers, video people, talent…entrepreneurs in general, live by a creed: It’s a Business First. This was the first piece of advice anyone ever gave me (thanks, Scott.)  And it’s the part of the business I am still endeavoring to master. Specifically, self-marketing.
Oh, do I hate cold calling. As a consequence, I do very [...]

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50th Post Blogstravaganza

Looking back on the LivelyExchange era…all 90 days of it!
Biggest Day So Far: April 17, 2008. This was the day I got a mention in the Low Country Blogroll, a compendium of Charleston-based blogs.
Most Active Post, Due to Content: Social Networking (Old School!) Imagine… MCAI people came out in force to defend their media production [...]

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On the Road with the Cat Killers

The scene opens on a farm in the foothills of Tennessee. A hitching post stands in the foreground, camera left.  A silver-haired man approaches, riding a donkey.  This is Gary, gentleman farmer and 6-time sales leader for a hospital supply company.
The donkey stops and Gary dismounts. He approaches the camera and says,
“Get off your ASS [...]

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Extremely Remote Video Production, Tape 3

Somewhere in suburbia, two video dudes sit in a breakfast nook sipping straight bourbon from dirty SONY coffee mugs. They smile wistfully.
1st guy: (sighs) “You know what this reminds me of?”
2nd guy: “That strip bar in Thailand?”
1st guy: “The drugs, the violence…”
Both: “The hookers!”
This General Foods International Bourbon moment was brought to you by the [...]

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Extremely Remote Video Production, Tape 2

The Story so far: After a heroic depletion of the stock at the Delta Crown Room, our video dudes head for France. They have some interesting video production experiences, but none of them seem to make it into the record. Instead, we get endless mockery of the fine French people and their customs. Enough of [...]

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Extremely Remote Video Production

About 15 years ago, I was asked to write a script for the European arm of the medical supply company I worked for. Come to think of it, this may be the first corporate video script I ever wrote.  That was exciting, but even more exciting was the notion that they were going to fly [...]

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Is that a Microphone in your Pocket?

I became a pretty decent video interviewer out of necessity. In the olden times, we jetted about the country doing product testimonials in hospitals. We corporate video dudes would tend to our 300lbs of gear, and leave the interviewing duties to the marketing managers.  Thinking it was one more headache we didn’t need, we got [...]

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