It’s been more than a year since Cohabitat opened. I remember sitting at The Flying Saucer in Addison talking with Blake and Stormy about my experience with starting The Creative Space. Blake has done an awesome job creating a space and community for entrepreneurs to thrive. D CEO Magazine recently recognized Blake and Dave for their efforts. I’m glad to be a part of it. Congratulations, y’all.
Read the whole thing here.
Lately I have felt like an ass with some of the conversations I have been having. I keep shooting down good ideas. And they are good ideas, the problem is that they are off focus from the core idea.
I’m one of the organizers of The Big (D)esign Conference and it’s shaped up to be a magnificent conference. The list of speakers is phenomenal, we have wonderful sponsors, interest has been good, promotion has been strong, ticket sales are growing higher every day, and I think we have the best team ever putting the whole thing together. How this has anything to do with focusing on a core idea is this: Our team of wonderfully intelligent and creative people come up with a ton of good ideas — and we want to do them all.
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This past weekend I traveled to Northern Virginia to visit my sister and attend Gold Cup 2009. Gold Cup is a steeplechase horse race (the kind of race with jumps) and is an absolute blast. Steve Berry, who is one of my favorite people in the world, invited us to his tent and we had a great time!
Actually, we started out the weekend on Thursday in Fredericksburg, VA when Steve and I went to meet my sister and her group at Kybecca Wine Bar. We ended up meeting a another group from Remax who are part of a group called WIRED (Women In Real Estate Daily). I joke a lot that if you want to meet someone, point me in their direction and I will introduce you. (more…)
Seriously y’all I’m not even drinking and this is still amusing me. I went ahead and took screen shots of some of my favorite filtered results from the guru/douchebag filter I wrote. Enjoy! (more…)
I was talking to my friend Erica today about her upcoming presentation at The Big Design Conference on social media. She pitched a great presentation and I asked her to just make sure she hits on the subject of trust because so many of the people who call themselves “social media gurus” don’t get it - they think it’s all about numbers and are complete douchebags. She laughed and agreed.
Then to waste time because I am awesome, I rewrote a greasemonkey script that replaces all instances of the words “guru”, “expert”, and “maven” (and now “Kanye” (as in West)) with “*douchebag*” on any website you go to. So now you will immediately know if that new twitter follower or SEO company is worthy or if he/she is a total douche 
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And it is. It’s all about you. Yesterday I found this really great online service and checked out their About page. It wasn’t really about them at all - it was a thinly veiled sales/benefits pitch and it got me thinking about content and how sites engage their visitors. Too many times people try to pounce on their visitors - never getting to know them or letting them get to know you. (more…)