Monthly Archives: October 2009

And the award goes to…

You know how you always hear famous people dismissing the importance of actually winning an award by saying “it’s an honor just to be nominated”? I found myself saying that a lot since learning I was a finalist for “Social Media/Blogger of the Year” in the Nashville Technology Council‘s Feel the Beat Awards and what [...]

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Will Google's New Music Service Affect Your Business? Surprise: It Might.

When I first moved to Nashville in February of 2003, I was in pursuit of a dream: I wanted to develop my songwriting and write hits. It did not escape my notice that the industry was changing, even then, and that the distribution models that had ensured songwriter royalties were being disrupted, so that I [...]

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Optimizing, Networking, Venn Diagrams, and Other Observations from BarCamp Nashville 2009

The third BarCamp Nashville took place this past Saturday, and I’m proud to say [meta]marketer was intimately involved in many aspects of making it happen. Both Matthew Freeman and I were on the planning crew; [meta]marketer was a “Worthy” sponsor of the event; and Freeman and I were both speakers (as were several other folks [...]

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Mention in Nashville Post about Startup Weekend

I was interviewed yesterday by Erin Lawley at the Nashville Post as part of an article on Nashville Startup Weekend, and that article came out today: Kate O’Neill did not launch a business based on last year’s Nashville Startup Weekend, but she said participating in the event helped give her the confidence to become an [...]

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Speaking at BarCamp Nashville – Are You Going?

If you’re in Nashville on Saturday, October 17th, the place to be is downtown at Cadillac Ranch where the third BarCamp Nashville will be happening, and I mean really happening. This is where the best minds in technology, web, digital content, social media, and more will be. And if you do go, you can see [...]

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