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EP:024 – The Cotton Club Podcast

July 25, 2011 By Leave a Comment

After a brief hiatus The Cotton Club was back online this evening w/ Keith Crawford, Tyler Presley, Steven Trotter, Chris Spencer, and Mike Fraietta to discuss Google+. Being that Google+ is fairly new, this was the first chance for me to really connect w/ some of my friends to get their take on the new product. It was also very cool to have Mike Fraietta on the show this evening, he is the enterprise community manager at NewsCorp, you may have heard of them before… Fox News, Wall Street Journal, etc. Anyway, having Mike on the show was great, his input was awesome!

A few days ago I blogged about my first impression of Google+ after having used the product for a few days. I still think the future is very bright for this product if Google stays on track w/ what they have going right now. During the show we each shared some of the things that we liked and disliked about the network as well as some thoughts as to how we envisioned various aspects evolving over time…

This was a fun show, definitely great getting the gang together again to talk tech! I promise not to neglect the podcast and will be sure to post new shows from time to time, and thanks to the handful of you who have stayed on me to bring the show back!

The Cotton Club Podcast - Episode 24 / Google+ Social Network [ 0.01 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
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EP:023 – The Cotton Club Podcast

July 25, 2011 By Leave a Comment

This evening I had the opportunity to chat w/ Keith Crawford, Steven Trotter, and Christopher Spencer about this years Wordcamp Fayetteville. During the show Chris, who is heading up the event, went over the 4 tracks for the event as well as touching on some of the content that would be covered this year. As a sidenote, I will be speaking during one of the sessions this year on WordPress profitability for agencies and freelancers, you can see my blog post about my discussion here…

If you haven’t registered for Wordcamp Fayetteville yet you had better get on the ball, I think there are 20+ spots available for the conference. To register online, click here…

The Cotton Club Podcast - Episode 23 / Wordcamp Fayetteville 2011 [ 0.01 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
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EP:022 – The Cotton Club Podcast

February 14, 2011 By 2 Comments

COTTONCLUBLOGOAbout a week ago I blogged about a product called Argyle Social that Keith Crawford turned me onto and I must say I was impressed w/ it the first time I opened it. If you are not familiar w/ Argyle, checkout the post I did a few weeks ago. Well, long story short, I started talking w/ Argyle right after I downloaded the software, they actually called me to see how I liked it, that’s pretty much unprecedented these days to start with, but what I have found is that their company isn’t your typical startup.

Keith and I managed to get Eric Boggs, the CEO of Argyle to agree to be on the show to give us the scoop on Argyle and tell us a little more about their company. The end result was about a half hours worth of awesome conversation about Argyle’s product. I highly recommend checking out this episode if you are a social media consultant or manage social media for your organization.

On a sidenote, we have been extremely busy at Pleth, and Keith has been extremely busy as well but I promise to get The Cotton Club back up and running on a bi-weekly basis again soon. Thanks for your continued support of the show and be sure to drop us your comments and let us know what you would like to hear us discuss, we are always looking for interesting topics.

Ep:022 - The Cotton Club Podcast w/ Eric Boggs, CEO of Argyle Social [ 33:42 | 30.89 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
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EP:021 – The Cotton Club Podcast

November 30, 2010 By 1 Comment

thecottonclubpodcastsign_thumb_thumbI had the opportunity this week to record another episode of The Cotton Club with Keith Crawford, Amy B. Hole, Brant Collins, Robert Blake, and Calvin Hill. On this episode we all discussed some of our favorite brands of 2010 and what it was we liked about each one.  Last week I summarized some of the brands that I discussed on the show like Gowalla, Tom’s Shoes, Starbucks, Facebook, and Groupon in a blog post, you can read that post here…

Some of the other brands and startups mentioned by everyone else included; Apple, Netflix, Microsoft Kinect, Wufoo Forms, Mailchimp, Evernote, and Sports Authority, just to name a few. As usual we wrapped up the show discussing some of our favorite iPhone applications.  A few of the apps that were discussed include Glue, World Series of Poker / Texas Hold-em, Pixel Pipe, Instagram, Public Radio, and Notifo. This was one of our longer shows in that it ran over an hour and twenty minutes but there is a lot of really good information and discussion, enjoy!

Episode 21 [ 1:16:45 | 70.3 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
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EP:020 – The Cotton Club Podcast

November 3, 2010 By 2 Comments

thecottonclubpodcastsign_thumb This past week Keith Crawford, Luke Irvin, and I sat down with the CEO of Footfeed, Dennis Mink to discuss their brilliant iphone application. Footfeed is a new mobile geo location check-in aggregator network that brings together many web services so users can checkin to many networks simultaneously. Built from the ground up as a stand alone check-in service, Footfeed integrates APIs from Brightkite, Foursquare, Gowalla, Facebook (and soon Twitter, Google Latitude and Whrrl).

Footfeed features an advanced location matching algorithm that matches locations across different services so that users can check-in to multiple services with one click. Using the Footfeed mobile check-in app, users can have their location matched across the different networks connected to their account and check-in to all networks simultaneously. Footfeed also offers an API to developers and companies interested in adding multi check-in capabilities to their apps.

Footfeed was co-founded by Dennis Mink and Benjamin Floering and incorporated in January 2010. Dennis brings 12 years of experience in marketing and product development, having built two successful digital marketing agencies in Los Angeles. Ben Floering, who worked with IBM and AMD, is a senior software engineer and core code contributor to the Rails code base. In addition, Val Ornoy, a serial entrepreneur who most recently led business development in location-based services for Motorola, and a 14 year veteran in the mobile and tech space, heads up business development.

Have you tried Footfeed yet? If so, what are your thoughts??

The Cotton Club - Episode 20 [ 44:10 | 40.48 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
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EP:019 – The Cotton Club Podcast

October 19, 2010 By Leave a Comment

thecottonclubpodcastsign_thumb_thumb[1] The big story today in our industry was the announcement that a lot of applications inside the Facebook social network exposed certain information about users.  Granted Facebook has done a lot to promote privacy within their platform, they even reinvented and simplified their privacy controls for users.  I don’t think that Facebook is solely responsible for the issues that were reported today.  Personally I think the application developers are the responsible parties.  (to read news reports on this topic, click here…)

Facebook jumped on this issue quickly and shut down several apps today until they could get the situation under control and remedy this PR nightmare before it got out of hand.  Personally I had two separate phone calls today from Facebook users asking my opinion on what I thought they should do.  Of course my first advice was to stop playing Farmville.  It’s a huge waste of time.  (Just kidding, don’t send hate mail)

Since this is a pretty hot topic, I decided to have Abbi Siler from Local2Social on The Cotton Club Podcast this evening to discuss the topic and clarify a few things as well as providing some tips and tricks to members of the Facebook Community.  If you would like to contact Abbi please feel free to do so, her email address is: abbi.siler@gmail.com, and her telephone # is: 501-786-3412. To listen to this interview, just hit the play button below:

The Cotton Club - Episode 19 [ 12:30 | 11.49 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
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EP:018 – The Cotton Club Podcast

October 18, 2010 By 1 Comment

thecottonclubpodcastsign_thumb_thumb Wow, this evening might have been one of the most informative podcasts we have ever recorded.  My guests, Keith Crawford (@tsudo) and Amy Bradley Hole (@amybhole) discussed a topic that I introduced earlier today, The Hazards of Representing Client Brands Socially.  As I mention on the show, I consider Keith and Amy both to be thought leaders and influential voices in the realm of social media and their input this evening was incredible.  I think this shows content is invaluable to any organization presently involved in or looking to get into social media. We also pursue this topic from a consultant / agency perspective and discuss some of my concerns highlighted in the earlier blog post.

During the show I asked Keith and Amy to make some social media monitoring tool suggestions and they mentioned Scout Labs. Also, Keith recommended a blog post by Chris Brogan titled, Grow Bigger Ears in 10 Minutes.  We had an awesome time doing the show this evening, if you like what we are doing, please feel free to drop us a review on itunes. Also, if you have topic discussions or would like to be a guest on the show sometime, just drop me a comment or email and we will see what we can do.

TheCottonClub-EP018 [ 49:30 | 45.36 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
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EP:017 – The Cotton Club Podcast

October 7, 2010 By Leave a Comment

thecottonclubpodcastsign_thumb It has been a few weeks since we released an episode of The Cotton Club so last night Keith Crawford, Steven Trotter, Craig McCoy, Abbi Siler and I all sat down to record one.  For some reason the quality on this episode isn’t as good as previous episodes so please bear with me as we look into that and get it corrected for future shows.

Some of the topics we covered included Barcamp Jonesboro, Facebook, the movie ‘The Social Network’ and a hodgepodge of other tech related topics.  While the quality of this show was less than stellar I think the content was awesome. As always we also covered our iphone apps of the week. Be sure to listen in and let me know what you think…

Standard Podcast [ 1:04:05 | 58.71 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
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EP:016 – The Cotton Club Podcast

September 7, 2010 By Leave a Comment

thecottonclubpodcastsign On this episode of The Cotton Club my guests, Keith Crawford, Brant Collins, Robert Blake, Steven Trotter, and Garth Bowman, discussed a wide variety of topics related to the recent Apple event including Apple TV, the Ping social network, and the changes to iTunes.  We also discussed content delivery and how players like Netflix and Redbox have revolutionized the entertainment industry.

I recorded this show while on the road in Bolivar, Missouri, just north of Springfield.  The quality is okay but expect everything to be back to normal in our next episode.  We would love to have your feedback, is there a topic you would like for us to discuss?  Drop us a comment and let us know.  Also, if you like what we are doing, please give us your rating in iTunes.

TheCottonClubEp-016 [ 42:10 | 38.64 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
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EP:015 – The Cotton Club Podcast

August 18, 2010 By 2 Comments

thecottonclubpodcastsign_thumb1_thumb1_thumb1_thumb[1] Wow, this weeks show was off the charts.  My co-hosts Keith Crawford, Steven Trotter, and Robert Blake welcomed Dave Olson from Hootsuite to the show to discuss Hootsuite’s new freemium-premium pricing plans.  Dave was an awesome guest and really did an excellent job explaining their new rate plans as well as their enterprise plan.

If you aren’t familiar w/ Hootsuite, I suggest you check them out.  They literally have too many features for me to list here so go checkout their overview.  Just to touch on some of the high spots, with Hootsuite you can manage multiple networks, manage team workflow, track statistics, convenient multi-stream view w/ tabbed layout, manage followers, handle file uploads, schedule tweets, manage twitter lists, perform quick searches, and much, much more…

TheCottonClub-EP015 [ 50:00 | 45.82 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
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