'Because it is its purpose to create a customer, any business enterprise has 2, and only these 2 basic functions: marketing and innovation.'

7 potent myths about Twitter: http://bit.ly/2hN3g

Way-Back Machine: teenager, 1969. Today, Abbey Road. Really? Next week, Woodstock. Is that right? Wow! :)

Paranoia vs. Social Media: Why ESPN and the USMC got it wrong, and why IBM got it right « The BrandBuilder Blog http://bit.ly/WCe2G

"A brand is someone's expectation of receiving a feeling by way of an experience." - Tom Asacker, http://bit.ly/1j9dP7

Brand destiny: 1)Innovate by leading your customer;2)Create amazing experiences;3)Get involved with the conversation. http://bit.ly/OezTg

1*# (How to by-pass US carriers vmail intro) http://bit.ly/1FZNJE "One-Star-Pound" #OneStarPound

How To Hijack 'Every iPhone In The World' - Forbes.com http://bit.ly/SVOL8

"Customer loyalty" is an oxymoron. - http://bit.ly/45FOih (One of Tom's better pieces!) Enjoy!

How are people responding to your brand? Compliance, identification or internalization? http://bit.ly/36iTLl - Asacker

“Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.” -Thomas Carlyle. "The fog is here to stay." http://bit.ly/QWyRA

Recovering from 4 of these. 4! (video clip) http://bit.ly/rEK4L Exercising again. So far 10+ miles over 3 days. Easy does it. :)

Facebook / Blackberry integration loaded. Early results: simple, easy to navigate / update.

Iowans rethink Michael Jackson butter statue - http://bit.ly/ovMzh

Concepts,like individuals,have their histories & are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. -Kierkegaard

Buzz2009 *FREE* simulcast. Social Media for Associations. *Today* 12noon EDT. http://bit.ly/rddq0

Running of the bulls, Day #2 - 4 injured, including a Spaniard poked in the buttocks by a charging beast. (Ouch!) http://bit.ly/8A7xi

Social by Social: http://bit.ly/6EbeG - "…if you really want to change the world, you have to change the conversations between people…"

840meters, ~ 4minutes, 460+kg of horned bull - running. 7-Julio-2009, 8am (UTC+1) ¡San Fermín! Lean times: http://bit.ly/wFXb1

Solar eclipse: 22-July-2009. Longest until 2132. Of the choices, where to go? North Iwo Jima? http://bit.ly/14C8po

14th Century Langley Castle, Northumbrian South Tyne valley. Family wedding;We had Derwentwater £245 room.Lifetime Exp! http://bit.ly/10EMhr

Growth/Innovation: How to end the Catch-22*, http://bit.ly/ou6qq *fueled mainly by fear, flawed reasoning and bureaucratic nonsense.

"Branding is a dance." http://bit.ly/MOowY And the old Zen maxim of "learn to surf". Enjoy!

Mission-driven? No. Purpose-driven. http://bit.ly/14KrlM

A brand is a promise. No it is NOT. http://bit.ly/d0VRF

Sasquatch Music Festival - ONE person *can* make a difference. Enjoy! http://bit.ly/mlu7B

Houston=Hot! 43C/110F (heat index) And it's still Spring :)

GM commercial spoof http://bit.ly/156EUh USA taxes @ work. ;)

ART connecting statistics to emotions, feelings. Chris Jordan #TED 2008 http://bit.ly/uPZQC Enjoy!

Beer-fetching robot (photo) http://bit.ly/Gwayp

"Web 2.0" = the millionth word in English language. http://bit.ly/25YiMr Hmm...

Robobird http://bit.ly/yO9fl (@ 20secs.) Festo Bionic Learning Network 2009 (Very Isaac Asimov like!)

Whitacre? Texan? GM? (Ask #WWDC folks what they think about Whitacre's former AT&T?) "A Hummer in every driveway!" Congestion everywhere. ;)

Dentist appointment now.

"Wealth flows from Health" http://ping.fm/J2pA0 (transparent, honest, caring relationships bring...) Enjoy!

Looking forward to late afternoon "pool party" with friends, food, fellowship. 91F/33C sunny. Gonna rock!

Bubble Burst Friday: "Your Business card is CRAP!" http://bit.ly/MIgaY

Jim Collins: How the Mighty Fall, 5 stages of decline. http://bit.ly/AOU7g (brief video clip) Enjoy! [typo: Mighty]

Jim Collins: How the Might Fall, 5 stages of decline. http://bit.ly/AOU7g (brief video clip) Enjoy!

#Google Wave Preview "Chapterized": http://bit.ly/mKIT5 - "scenes" of 4-5mins from the 1hr20min 28-May-2009 Google I/O conference.

EKG stress test, abnormal. Next? Cardiac cath. outpatient procedure. Keeping heart healthy=happy! :)

Rockefeller Foundation: "The How of Innovation" http://bit.ly/xl8yx Enjoy the read!

To my Life's Love, Passion & Calling, this song I dedicate: http://songza.com/~cgq8at

This *is* diversity. http://bit.ly/1snQ6

From CIO "Google Wave: A New Kind of Mega-Application" http://bit.ly/f32dB Succinct, executive overview.

#NTEN Clay Shirky's Keynote (45min+Q&A) - Rich, multiple, tangible real-world examples! http://ping.fm/26pVL Enjoy.

From 1997 google.stanford.edu to 2009 wave.google.com this http://bit.ly/6v4i3 will do for communication what Google did for search.

OK, wow! AT&T DSL tech,Los Angeles center- a sense of humor, feelings, etc. How refreshing! My current 20k bps will improve;Typically 6Meg.

12,000? = number of laptops lost in US airports. Per week!! Only 33% reclaimed. http://bit.ly/gfZLt Ponemon Institute study.

"...control is your albatross." - http://bit.ly/WTUlA (next to last paragraph nails it!) Enjoy!

Ignore Everybody. http://bit.ly/XNyqj [to the "artist" in each of us.]

Cube Grenades=Disruptive Stuff. http://bit.ly/OKKYm Adding http://www.gapingvoid.com + http://www.acleareye.com to daily "must read" list.

What Would Google Do? Non-Profit Edition http://bit.ly/PgcGE #WWGD

Gin! The critical technology- http://blip.tv/file/855937 - @cshirky Web2.0 "cognitive surplus". 1st 5-6 minutes minimally. Enjoy!

http://www.charitywater.org + http://areallygoodejob.com >= $60,000 for new clean drinking water wells. http://bit.ly/rWq2t

Changing Wine into Water...

My crazy idea:

www.charitywater.org + www.areallygoodejob.com + 26 volunteer social media experts (1 per week) + 1 week in California's Sonoma County Wine Country w/ Food & Lodging (can you say “dream-cation”?) = $60,000 for new clean water wells with drinking water for 100's of people. Changing wine into water, and changing 100's of families' lives forever. All made possible by YOU - social media volunteers - and the folks at Murphy-Goode wineries www.murphygoodewinery.com

[Crazy? comments? thoughts?]

Oh, the irony: http://bit.ly/a9BtU :)

3 simple pictures. You *will* get them wrong. http://bit.ly/mGJKv Chief Culture Officer :)

#WolframAlpha may not be Orwell's 1984, but expect non-alpha to be. Atom-splitting power for Computational Knowledge. www.WolframAlpha.com

'Wirearchy', Can Non-Profits work more like clouds? - http://bit.ly/9liTx (RT: @kanter)

Remember when you were a kid...? http://bit.ly/z6WAg (H/T @loic @zee) #iFriday (i=inspiration)

Did you know? http://bit.ly/9Lo5r Perspective. (Watched it again. Refreshing.) Enjoy!

Had 'chemistry' conversation w/ blockbuster non-profit. Mutually excellent 'chemistry'. So it's 'when' not 'if'. Made the A-Team waitlist :)

"It's always about them" - http://bit.ly/10sy6i - Audience=them. Not me. Along with 100's of others, I got the Jeep thing totally wrong.

And...it's jog o'clock once again! 87F/30C, warm. Ciao!

"If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less." General Eric Shineski, Retired Chief of Staff, U.S. Army

"Social is like sex." - CEO, Forrester Research - http://bit.ly/vdROO - The Counterintuitive CEO

Mother's Day - dates around the world - http://bit.ly/10L6lo

Prediction: 10-May-2009, Mother's Day in many countries, will be the lowest traffic day of the year for both Facebook and Twitter. True :)

'Survival at all costs' the new mantra at media companies?http://bit.ly/GTHbp -And I posit this is *not* limited 2 only 'media' companies.

A-n-d... it's that special time of day: jog o'clock! Ciao.

Take #2/d�j� vu: 1st conversation with social service blockbuster non-profit, re-scheduled for this afternoon.

And...it's jog o'clock. Ciao for now.

Innovation drives the sacred P's - productivity and profit. - http://bit.ly/qrCfd

Story enhancer: "It is Spring, and I am blind." - http://bit.ly/5R140

Garmin says! 7.3m/11.75km, 85F/29C - Another great jog along the Bayou!

First conversation with a social service blockbuster Non-Profit collides with org's first confirmed H1N1 case. Conversation re-scheduled :)

Looking forward to a first conversation with a social service blockbuster Non-Profit.

"The game isn't everything; it's the only thing."
http://bit.ly/abxL3

"The only people who like change are wet babies." [True? http://bit.ly/PAh4W]

The Business Secrets of Trappist Monks - Enjoy! Read. Do. Succeed!

Turbulence is inescapable. 'Swim with the current'. - [ I love the "agitated and 'busy'" phrase. Great visual.]

Annual physical, done. 'nuf said.

http://www.howtonailaninterview.com/ - really people, c'mon - common sense. Short clips. Funny...or... sad. 22 tips, spot on!

"...bottle ocean waves." One of today's inspirations. Enjoy!!!

Whoa! Once again jog o'clock strikes - plus modest strength training. Ciao!

Garmin says! 7.25m/11.7k, 80F/26C - awesome Bayou trek!

Looking forward to full sun and a l-o-n-g walk along the Bayou -- especially after yesterday's non-stop torrential downpours.

Part 2 of 2: See the glass as already broken (and everything else too). - WTx? - Part 1 of 2 here: http://bit.ly/y2S8m

Daily Calendar Inspirations...

17-April-2009, "Everything has a beginning, and everything has an end. A glass is created and will eventually break."

Twitter on Oprah - ABC at 4pm in NYC! ( @ev and @aplusk)

Whoa! It's jog o'clock. Ciao.

Eye exam today. No glaucoma, great news! Small, tiny, miniscule (Dr.'s words) CATARACT developing. Less than great news. :(

It ain't easy when you fall, Ian Hunter, [got news. It ain't easy when you're pushed either. ;)

A Tom Asacker post

Amazing video and metaphors aplenty. It ain't over @ 1:30. Keep watching.

182 Linkedin members invited; a ~10% automatic match of the original 1860 contacts imported. Not bad, says I. :)

Just imported 1860 gmail contacts into Linkedin. Now to prioritize and connect!

Garmin says: "10k/6.21mi" -Sunday stroll along the White Oak Bayou Trail. Perfect temperature, breezes, and Texas wildflowers in full bloom!

Lovely long walk along the Bayou. Texas Wildflowers. Nice breezes. Perfect temperature. April 2nd, a day to remember.

10 Privacy Settings Every Facebook User Should Know.