So good I had to post it. Vanilla Ice shouting out to all the mothers on Twitter.  Happy Mother’s Day! : D WORD TO YOUR MOTHER ! – happy Mother’s Day ! — Vanilla Ice (@vanillaice) May 12, 2013  

Last week turned out to be a good one with Served Fresh Media relaunching New York Viral Media Meetup (@nyviralmedia) at a sold out event full of digital media minds looking for insights into the latest viral media tricks and trends.

I was truly humbled by the warm reception I received and everyone's awesome feedback. So glad I could share something that inspired others.

According to Google no one has yet to make a correlation between entrepreneurs and extremophiles. As a matter of fact, a search of the term turns up only 289,000 results. This strikes me as surprising. But then, most people don’t understand what makes the heart of entrepreneurs tick much less what an extremophile is. After reading a NY Times book [...]

Unlike a traditional agency, World's Fastest Agency claims to not only be fast, but CHEAP -- $999 gets you an entire creative strategy campaign in 24 hours. It's the fast-food of advertising agencies. It goes a little something like this...

I tried it. A few times, at that. Partially out of curiosity (early sneak peaks looked promising), partially out of obligation (I am a Digital Media Strategist whose job it is to stay on top of all social media related trends). I dutifully downloaded Twitter's Vine

Two years ago, you couldn't imagine something like this happening. With Steve Jobs at Apple's helm (reveling in brilliance and brimming with innovation), the idea that Apple would one day post a public, detailed explanation of why their phone is better than Samsung's Galaxy smart phone would make even the harshest Apple critic laugh.

Posts, ideas or bits of information gave me cause for pause this past week -- truly share-worthy...

"The first rule of hackathon is there are no rules. Kind of like 'Fight Club,' but with no blood." -- Facebook engineer Paul Tarjan

Do you ever feel curious about how to better market your music and your band? It seems like social media is changing every day and artists are using some of the newest platforms to get the word out. How do you keep up with the most effective platforms? How to you get the best exposure? Is social media the only way to market yourself these days or do traditional methods still work?

The concept of ownership as we know it has been a keystone of industrial age capitalism. The idea that the possession of property (physical or intellectual) can be transferred via legal right is a basic construct that is now taken for granted among a majority of industrialized nations. Does ownership as we know it still work? Does it serve us as we move toward a shared economy?

What it would be like to sit down and have a no-holds-barred conversation with a man who has spent over three decades in the music business helping to mold the careers of music icons like Fleetwood Mack, The Who, Prince, Alice Cooper, The Beach Boys, The Sex Pistols, The Ramones, Van Halen and Talking Heads (to name a few), and who has significantly contributed to ushering in the music innovation we all enjoy and benefit from today?