In 2006-07, I helped create the American Mustache Institute (AMI). It’s one part real-life facial hair advocacy organization, one part facial hair enthusiasts community, one part men’s humor site, one part charitable vehicle, and 13.5 parts experimental digital media sandbox. Through it I’ve created a number of media-worthy campaigns for the sake of battling what [...]
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your education? An Elastic Intern does a lot of things–fetching coffee is not one of them. From day one, our interns are expected to dive right in and work on multiple projects for multiple clients. However, that’s just the beginning. We expect our interns to [...]
We’ve been spending a lot of time looking at, and talking to people about, crowdsourcing and crowdfunding as part of an initiative we are working on here at Elasticity. It’s been an interesting learning experience, and one of the centers of the crowdsourcing universe is, quite aptly, Crowdsourcing.org, which tracks the space. If the term [...]
The very funny website SocialMediaDouchebag (SMDB) begins by asking us, “Do you want to learn how to use Web 2.0 Social Media to become a millionaire overnight? How would you like to increase your Twitter followers by eleventy-billion in 3.68 seconds? Do you want to use Twitter to make a gazillion dollars through affiliate marketing [...]
