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Michael Jackson Creative Commons Photo

Posted by eschipul on Tuesday, July 28, 2009 at 8:50 am. Comments are off.

Tweet From a random trip into the wax museum in Tijuana Mexico while in San Diego on business. Yes I enjoyed Michael Jackson’s music. But I guess I never really “got it” at the level of so many people. Since MJ passed away, this creative commons photo of Michael Jackson has taken off in traffic [...]

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The Finish Line

Posted by eschipul on Monday, July 6, 2009 at 12:04 pm. Comments are off.

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Yammer – can we have an emergency preparedness option?

Posted by eschipul on Saturday, July 4, 2009 at 11:29 am. 19361 Comment.2009-07-04+17%3A29%3A54eschipulhttp%3A%2F%2Feschipul.com%2F%3Fp%3D1936

Tweet I posted previously on Yammer. That it was a big help for us during Hurricane Ike in 2008 in Houston. During the hurricane the ONLY thing that worked was text on the cell phone. No voice. No data plans on the cell. No land lines. Certainly no cable or dish or regular TV. Radio [...]

Filed under Social Software, budling, Emergency Response, pricing, software business models, yammer.

The Godfather, The Undertaker, and Informal Systems

Posted by eschipul on Monday, May 4, 2009 at 6:30 am. 18273 Comments.2009-05-04+12%3A30%3A33eschipulhttp%3A%2F%2Feschipul.com%2F%3Fp%3D1827

Tweet In recent talks I have found an anecdote that has worked well to explain the difference between formal and informal systems that most Americans can relate to. The book The Godfather opens with: Amerigo Bonasera sat in New York Criminal Court Number 3 and waited for justice; vengeance on the men who had so [...]

Filed under Nonprofit and Technology, Social Software, formal systems, godfather, informal systems, Public Relations, Sociology, undertaker.

Swine Flu – We’re all (NOT) Gonna Die Man!

Posted by eschipul on Saturday, May 2, 2009 at 8:29 am. 17843 Comments.2009-05-02+14%3A29%3A06eschipulhttp%3A%2F%2Feschipul.com%2F%3Fp%3D1784

Tweet STOP IT! Just STOP IT damnit. No, we are all NOT going to die from Swine Flu. Sheesh. “The biggest question is this — how severe will the pandemic be, especially now at the start,” Chan said. “It really is all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic.” True, the definition of [...]

Filed under Social Software, emergency preparedness, H1N1, houston, pandemic, swine flu, texas.

Showmanship for Magicians – Entertainment Fundamentals

Posted by eschipul on Thursday, April 30, 2009 at 2:56 pm. Comments are off.

Tweet From Showmanship for Magicians, PG 24-25 “From the above, then, we should be able to to begin to cull a list of the often-found integrants in successful and popular entertainment. Most often appearing in our analysis, as shown above, are the certain fundamentals:” Music Rhythm Movement Youth Sex appeal Personality Color Comedy Harmony Romance [...]

Filed under Social Software, audience, entertainment, entertainment fundamentals, magicians, performance, public speaking.

Tracking Buzz Through Stock Photography Geography

Posted by eschipul on Tuesday, April 7, 2009 at 9:11 am. Comments are off.

Tweet Via David Brown of Spacetaker, I saw this article in the New York Times called The Geography of Buzz, a Study on the Urban Influence of Culture. The methodology of the study itself is quite fascinating – reviewing stock photography taken at parties and plotting them on a map. The overall report is a [...]

Filed under Social Software, Association of American Geographers, buzz, geography, hipsters.

Social Media Training for Political Campaigns Presentation

Posted by eschipul on Monday, April 6, 2009 at 2:59 pm. Comments are off.

Tweet Busy weekend. From the Bill White Social Media Training post on the Schipul blog Bill White Campaigners’ Social Media Training View more presentations from Ed Schipul. We had a super morning this Saturday, meeting with Mayor Bill White, his WONDERFUL wife Andrea White, their staff and a great group of volunteers. The topic was [...]

Filed under Social Software, bill white, houston, politics, Social Media.

Hall’s 10 elements of culture

Posted by eschipul on Thursday, March 26, 2009 at 10:37 pm. Comments are off.

Tweet From The Silent Language by Edward T. Hall culture can be discerned by reviewing 10 elements of a culture. In his words: The criteria, from an anthropological point of view, are firm. There are ten separate kinds of human activity which I have labeled Primary Message Systems (PMS) (editors note: how unfortunate?!) Only the [...]

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Mom2Summit Panel Video: It’s the end of Marketing as we know it. And we feel fine.

Posted by eschipul on Wednesday, February 25, 2009 at 7:27 pm. 16763 Comments.2009-02-26+01%3A27%3A49eschipulhttp%3A%2F%2Feschipul.com%2F%3Fp%3D1676

Tweet Well it took me half a week, but here is the full video of our panel from the Mom2Summit last weekend. The title was “It’s the end of marketing as we know it. And we feel fine.” First the full video. Panel: It’s the end of Marketing as we know it. And we feel [...]

Filed under Blogging, Business, Marketing, Social Software, Sociology.

Rose Petals

Posted by eschipul on Wednesday, February 25, 2009 at 7:26 pm. 16801 Comment.Rose+Petals2009-02-26+01%3A26%3A18eschipulhttp%3A%2F%2Feschipul.com%2F%3Fp%3D1680

Tweet Rose Petals on Flickr.

Filed under Social Software, creative commons, Photography, rose petals.

Formation of New American Group Influencers

Posted by eschipul on Friday, January 30, 2009 at 8:01 am. Comments are off.

Tweet New groups are being formed throughout the country, and nobody has noticed. These emergent groups are zero to three years old. And the organizers are not the usual suspects. If there is a connection to urban tribes it is the connecting of existing urban tribes. We meet our new friends, talking to others we [...]

Filed under Art Community in Houston, Economics, Leadership, Pop Culture, Social Media, Social Software.

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