Community Powered, Live from SXSW: Guy Kawasaki

When a brand goes on line… they think that any handful of negative comments reflects what everyone else thinks… That’s just not true.

Community Powered, Live from SXSW: Patricia Martin

We could not have picked a better person to kick off our #CommunityPowered podcast series, live from uber geek conference, SXSW. Patricia is not only an absolute joy to be around (she was kind enough to meet with us at 9:00 AM on Sunday morning), she’s also a very sharp cookie. By way of background, [...]

South by Southwest: Right Around Our Corner

Austin is buzzing right now as people arrive for the annual South by Southwest Interactive conference, and we at Powered are pumped to bring our own flavor to the event! We have several things going on – including a sponsorship of Monday night’s Mashable + Blurb SxSW Bash ’09, and we’ll be sporting our custom [...]

It Takes a (Twitter) Village

Yesterday when I picked my daughter up from school – she’s in fourth grade – she almost sheepishly showed me a necklace I knew I’d never seen before. When I asked where she got it she said “It was on my desk”, but I knew that wasn’t the whole story. After a little carefully poking [...]

My “Last Supper” list for SXSWi – a.k.a. Where to Eat in the ATX

UPDATE: Here’s a map I don’t cook. Not even a little. However, I made it through college waitressing and bartending in fine dining restaurants in Austin and have lived in the capitol city for 17 years. I also interned at the Texas Restaurant Association and was once published in Restaurants & Institutions magazine thinking I [...]

Social Technology from the Mean Streets

The web, from a technical perspective, is orders of magnitude more complex than it used to be. What used to amount to the creation and layout of graphic files and text on a page has blossomed into a network of websites that look more like applications than publications. Most of this complexity is due to [...]

Give Before You Get [My Stump Speech]

For what it’s worth, the original title of this post was originally “Are You Smarter than a Drug Dealer?” It came out of a conversation I was having with our CEO about the fact that the business model we encourage our clients to adopt – namely, “give before you get” – in many ways is no different than that [...]

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