End of the Google Reader era… Where’s my web version of Zite?

sad mobile

The official end of Google Reader is fast approaching and it makes me sad this Wednesday evening… While my team still actively uses Google Reader every day, I must admit, I’m one of those “loyal” followers who has almost stopped using the product to connect with other bloggers the way I once did…  While people like [...]

SXSWi: The #SBflock is Descending

techzulu lounge

I’m so darn excited that I’m just a few hours away from hopping on a plane to Austin for SXSWi! This will be my first SXSW experience and definitely plan to immerse myself for a few days of fun.  My first memory of If you’re also going to be at SXSW, make sure to stop by [...]

Time-lapse: Waffle-making morning

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On Friday, Wendy arrived home with a very cool video capturing set up and we’ve been having fun all weekend playing.  Here’s one of my favorite videos so far:  A time-lapse of Superwaffles making waffles this morning. Your browser does not support the video tag For those curious, for this particular video, we used the Lapse [...]

Taking the Blog-First Mentality Seriously

A Handful

Hopefully you’ve noticed that I’ve been blogging more than a bit more over here lately!  (and you may have noticed that I moved the entire domain from 4realz.net to dustinluther.com recently!). At the beginning of the year, Wendy and I decided to challenge ourselves to blog more often…  I took it a step further and [...]

Can I Migrate Facebook Page Fans to Profile Subscribers?

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When Facebook first launched the “subscription” feature, there was talk of letting people convert their page fans into profile subscribers, but it now appears that this feature is not on their radar. Has anyone had any luck converting fans to subscribers?   By way of background, early on in the the life of facebook pages, [...]

Top 7 Ways to Ride a Bicycle that are Penguin Approved and Require NO Pedals

No pedel bicycles

Earlier today, I took two of our interns (@theAaronSam & @brittjohnson111) aside to give them a talk on Social Media strategy at D&B Credibility.  (It’s a talk I’ve given to just about every marketing intern that’s joined our program and something I really enjoy doing!). One of the points that I tried to drive home to them is [...]

Welcome to @DandB… Enjoy your Trailer Park food!

Trailer Park Truck Menu

Earlier this week, we welcomed a new intern, Aaron Wilson, to the D&B Credibility Engagement team.  He arrived in the middle of one of our hackweek events, where our developers drop all the day-to-day coding in order to build fun new projects.   And while the developers are playing (hard!), the company is awesome about [...]

Lots of confusion about how the fiscal cliff deal will affect small business owners, so…

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… I posted this article to highlight that small business owners aren’t alone if they’re confused by the conflicting news reports: Will the Fiscal Cliff Deal Affect Your Small Business?

Set up your iphone/ipad to send email from a google apps domain alias

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I spent some time this morning trying to set up my iphone/ipad so that I could send emails from a new domain.  I want to switch all my personal emails to go from @4realz.net to @dustinluther.com… and have already set everything to work “right” on the backend of my Google Aps account. However, @dustinluther.com is [...]

Some inspiring play to get us warmed up for an inspired 2013

advanced ping pong

I’m a sucker for great ping pong shots… Happy New Year!