East Tennessee’s Best Poll – Vote Today

Happy to be in the running for East Tennessee’s Best Tweeter with a couple others from the team at Moxley Carmichael, including Scott Bird and Cynthia Moxley. (Cynthia’s also nominated for best blogger for The Blue Streak!) Thanks for the nomination and your votes. Please vote! Ends tonight Aug. 20! Vote for Best Tweeter Vote [...]

Have you been KNOX’D?

I saw that two guys here in Knoxville I’ve connected with via email and twitter in the past couple weeks, Patrick and Casey have launched a new project. It’s called Knox’d. I’ll let Patrick’s description stand on it own. Information seekers in Knoxville, TN have a new way to get the latest headlines and information [...]

I’ve got a new business card

As I was writing my last post about Kip Knight and eBay, I noticed it was just about a month to the day between my posts. I consider this a bad revelation as I’ve really been trying to post at least once a week, if not more. I’ve had a lot less time to blog [...]

npr

Down here in Knoxville, WUOT our National Public Radio (NPR) affiliate just finished it’s fund raising drive which has raised my awareness of NPR’s website. Their website is great, no more then great, it is awesome! It’s also got a contemporary feel that many news sites are looking for, but just haven’t gotten quite right [...]

What an experience

I just got off the phone with a customer service rep. Now, prepared to be shocked. IT WAS THE BEST CUSTOMER SERVICE EXPERIENCE I’VE EVER HAD. Yes, it was that good. I’ve been searching around for a new bank account and a friend mentioned ING Direct. It turns out they offer 4.5% APY on savings [...]

sliding off track

The weather down here in Knoxville has been gorgeous, sunny and in the high 60s. Yesterday I took advantage of this weather and went mountain biking for the first time this year. It was a great ride, good traction, a slight breeze and they’d done some trail improvement from the fall so the loop was [...]

sushi design

This past weekend a friend and I went to downtown Knoxville for a concert. On our way we decided we’d have dinner downtown; I’m becoming a lover of sushi, so we headed to a great little place called nama. Excellent atmosphere, great food, great service, overall a wonderful time. I’d highly recommend it. When you [...]

maybe I need a wizard

As some of you may know I’m in the process of searching for a marketing job. So I’ve been contacting a lot of different companies following up on job leads. This post is about closed organizations. I consider a closed organization one where the barriers to entry for getting basic information are VERY high. I’ve [...]