I met Michelle Olson in Cabo San Lucas four years ago. Tough life, huh? We were there for the spring Counselor’s Academy conference and, when I was introduced to her, she noticed the bandages on my knees and elbows (how embarrassing). When asked what happened, I explained that I flew over the handlebars while mountain biking with two local tour guides who smelled so bad I had to get in front of them and missed seeing a large crevice they would have prevented me from hitting. We became fast friends, I’m certain, because of that first impression. But that’s not everything Michelle does. MORE >>

I found a new tool worth experimenting with called Keepstream. The tool seems to allow me to “bundle&# tweets – either from the regular stream, those I follow, or various lists. Or, best yet (?) my own stream of tweets. will like that last one, because I can choose from the best and share here. Maybe I’ll do so weekly, maybe daily. But first let’s see if I can embed this into a post. If it doesn’t work, here’s my bundle for yesterday (09/15/11). Thanks to SloDive (and Leo – you rock! for tipping me off on this content curation tool. MORE >>

It’s been a crazy travel week. Now I’m in Phoenix doing media training with a client. The one really great thing about all this west coast travel is I have a TON of uninterrupted plane time to write. hope Geoff Livingston can keep up! probably just jinxed myself and will be way too tired to do any writing on the flight home tonight. This week’s Gin and Topics is really good, if I do say so myself. There were some very odd, very creepy, very funny things that happened. So without further ado…. Good Samaritan Rescue Man In Fiery Crash. The men in my homestate are superheroes. Picked. MORE >>

ebay is gradually but steadily& seriously working towards becoming the dominant ecommerce player if the world. After having been beaten by Taobao in China and observing the surge of Amazon as a cloud-marketplace, it’s not unnatural for ebay to initiate what it calls X.Commerce. tried creating an infographic to show the ebay strategy based on my understanding and you can understand how the recent buy-outs by ebay are starting to make sense. Let’s look at the buy outs first: 1. Where.com – Over 1.2 lac retailers onboard. Location based ad-network + local deals. USD135M). MORE >>

Interesting video that explores what is branding? This comes to us from University of East Anglia in the UK. Video: Watch this video on the post page). Featured Video brand video branding video video on branding MORE >>