John Hawkins Unrated

On April 25th I spent the day at WordCamp Reno-Tahoe where I gave a presentation on using WordPress as a CMS for affiliate marketing. Other than being the MC for WordCamp:Las Vegas, this was my first time putting together slides and a speech and presenting it in front of an audience.
For those who weren’t [...]

Several months back NBC announced that Jimmy Fallon would be taking over hosting duties for Conan O’Brien once Conan replaces Jay Leno next year on the Tonight Show. He’s just a kid (35) compared to O’Brien (45) and Leno (58) and although I don’t watch a lot of late night talk shows, I’m definitely interested [...]

I’m sitting in the Santa Barbara airport waiting for my flight back home after spending the previous 3 days at the CJU conference. I have an hour to kill so I figured I may as well get started on this post while things are fresh in my mind.
Day 1
The first event of the conference didn’t [...]

Over the past couple years, I’ve seen a fair amount of keynote speakers. I’ve realized that the keynotes that I remember the most are the ones where I was entertained along the way. if the speaker comes out and throws data and stats at me for an hour, first off, I’m probably going to stop [...]

If you asked most people a year ago if they use Twitter, they’d have just looked at you funny. Wait a second, if you ask MOST people today if they use Twitter, they are still going to look at you funny. But, if you ask anybody in the tech industry, anybody who spends much time [...]