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HumpDay Haiku

Up too early. Brain storms and synapses buzz. Blinking cursor beckons. #humpdayhaiku What’s yours?

Feb 15th

2012 on 12. Turn it Up

Feb 2nd

READ THEN LISTEN. I COULD NOT RESIST POSTING...

Jan 12th

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I was in Fort Wayne, IN…on the radio at...

Nov 7th

Nov 1st

Sep 13th

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Sep 11th

Sep 8th

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Sep 2nd

Aug 23rd

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Friending is Dead: Now What? VOTE FOR ME TO FIND... →

Friending is Dead: Now What? This talk is going change sea levels and shift tectonic plates. Read: rock your world. Vote it up. Re-tumble it. And get me on stage in 2012 at SxSW.

Aug 22nd

Aug 15th

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Jul 21st

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Notes from the Park # 1

Since I’ve just gotten back in my bike saddle and am once again doing early morning laps at Prospect Park, I thought I’d share some of what I see, love, hate, am puzzled by and any other generally oddball isht that comes across my screen. I will call this line of commentary “Notes from the Park” and I encourage you to comment with your own from your own Park Life. Format...

Jul 19th

I love my Job - Knodes Knows

So apparently I got reviewed favorably by the twittersphere. The Flack Blog wrote: Ron Williams of SnapGoods and Knod.es One of the more engaging platforms and presenters who was described on Twitter as “confident, authentic & funny” was Ron Williams for Snapgoods(now with Knod.es). Snapgoods is another Platform that allows one to find, sell or trade goods and services locally....

Jul 14th

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Will You Kinda Marry Me: the dichotomy of...

So on Friday, July 1st, I proposed to my FG (former girlfriend, now my fiancee…so weird to say that out loud) and after much hemming and hawing negotiating and thumb wrestling she said yes. Feeling like a rockstar riding the high of finding and locking down (without the need for tranquilizer darts) such a wonderful person with whom to share so much I started thinking: Conversations,...

Jul 6th

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May 27th

What is Drunk to you? Drunk is...

Drunk is…trying. Drunk is…thinking that everyone is hot. Including yourself. Drunk is…not believing THAT happened. Until you remember. Drunk is…apologizing every time you see THAT person Drunk is…texting at 1am. And regretting at 7am. Drunk is…being annoyed friends try to get you a cab. After napping at dinner. Drunk is…repeating yourself. repeating...

May 17th

May 12th

Some of my 80s, revisited and relived through... →

melancholy half smiles, salty sweet victories. high hopes and half hearted plans coming together yet falling apart so many laughs bounded by the imperfection of it all so much pain. so much triumph. My 80s. —————— Man oh man, music takes you back like a time machine and sometimes the stuff you see-feel is almost as raw as the day it happened. ...

May 1st

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BFF or FbF? (RANDOM STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS)

It occurred to me that BFF (best friends forever) and FbF (facebook friends) have the same 3 letters. I found this amusing and ironic at first…and then ironically not ironic at all. What? Allow me to explain. At first I thought it was ironic because, well, your BEST friend or friends is one or a few people at best while your facebook friends might be thousands and thousands of people....

Apr 29th

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Come Hang with Me AND Support Edjumuhcation (CLICK... →

If you know me then you know that I am a product of both a little NYC montessori and public school love as well as a healthy dose of incredible parental support. My folks made be believe (and or ahem, convinced me sternly at times) that education was my platform and that on top of that platform I could do ANYTHING. So here I sit these days, alternately building stronger communities through...

Apr 25th

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I LIVE to get this kind of amped affirmation that I’m helping people. Live for it. Great end to an already great end of week. What can I do to get YOU this amped?

Apr 22nd

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Hate on haters. High-5 Skeptics.

Finally, my most oft-found fortune cookie fortune has come true. I AM living in interesting times. And so are you. We are living in an era of makers, shakers, doers, and of course haters. It has never been easier to build something. Less expensive capital, more accessible human resources, more flexible social mores around work-life balance and a creeping consensus that not only is failure...

Apr 21st

Apr 17th

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Got invited as a guest onto new show The Green Room, hosted by Chief Creative Officer of BBMG Mitch Baranowski. If you like what we’re doing at SnapGoods, log on, add your friends so you can have the best useful network in the world and like us on facebook, follow us on twitter, and ask if you can come swing by our offices in DUMBO! If you’re nice, then of course. If you’re...

Apr 7th

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Mar 28th

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Mar 8th

Smart People Said we Were 'Spreading'

Dirtiness? Or, Collaborative Consumption Pioneer? I guess so… :) READ HERE Honored and excited to be counted among so many extraordinary entrepreneurs. Feeling pretty darn ready for SxSW. Feeling pretty lucky to have a killer team and a product that is growing in popularity bringing people more opportunities to hook each other up and make new friends… Rachel Botsman and Roo...

Mar 1st

Feb 28th

Kick your Status Quo in the Face

[CROSS POSTED FROM blog.snapgoods.com] My morning so far: I get up at 4am to start rocking on the to-do list that fills various SnapGoods and home whiteboards. I’m online exactly 2.45 secs when@johnnygoods greets me on skype with a matrix-like ‘hello’…. He then ROCKS my world with a Neo-like display of product updates after a 24 hour code binge. He’s high as hell, flying on the seratonin...

Feb 18th

Every Day the 14th?

Let me paint you a picture. You’re sitting at dinner with the person you love. You’re laughing quietly at inside jokes, catching up on a long day, poking fun, secretly pinching and feeding each other delicious food unceremoniously…all over the sensuously raucous din of the couple next to you. They are lip smacklingly where-did-you-learn-to-kiss?? loud in their over the top PDA...

Feb 15th

Groupbomb: Making jokes about misery...

Just wanted to quickly tip my hat to a phenomenal miss by Groupon on their super offensive superbowl ad. If you didn’t see it, take the time to read the piece in readwriteweb and watch it. If you did see it, please feel free to comment here whether you agree or disagree with my assessment. I won’t belabor the point but in short Tibet’s decades long struggle under the Chinese...

Feb 7th

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You want to help? Shut up.

Getting people to do the right thing is easy, right? Telling people what’s good for them and showing them cautionary stats is effective, no? Can’t we all just give the stink-eye to misanthropic misbehaving sociopaths and get them to act right like in this fantastic PSA from my childhood? Sadly, no. Don’t smoke (but teenage smoking is up). Go to school (graduation rates are down). ‘Til death...

Feb 3rd

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Get a Sign and Get on Welfare to Succeed

So I had the pleasure of being asked to speak to some young adults in a GED class out in Astoria at the Catholic Charities Community Center yesterday and I decided to drop some science. Literally. I didn’t want to condescend. I didn’t want to speak abstractly about dreams and believing in themselves. I didn’t want to leave them feeling warm and fuzzy but bereft of actionable...

Jan 13th

Stop Networking. Start Helping.

Want to get rich quick? Stop reading and go by a mega millions lottery thingy. Want to have a richer network? STOP NETWORKING! You need to share more of your time and resources. Why? Feel Good reason: Because it’s the good thing to do. Selfish reason: Because the benefit you bring to others really does MATHEMATICALLY come back to you manifold. We typically think of passing...

Jan 7th

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Jan 7th

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I don’t know about you but I LOVE LOVE good percussion. The fact that a plastic container or two plus a garbage pail and some drumsticks can give you this is a testament to the fact that creativity trumps means any day.

Dec 14th

I had the pleasure of being on air with Mike...

Dec 9th

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Something in the Water...Me

I woke up this morning with that wonderful feeling that the day was about to be fantastic. High energy. Clear eyed. Suped up. Each thought a gem. Each word the beginning of a brilliant world-transforming sentence wrapped in the delicate folds of nicely nuanced context and relevance. I hesitate to say this as the day is only barely half way through as I write this, but I’m Reaganing....

Dec 2nd

@ronjdub on the Oprah Radio show →

Chopping it up with Derrick Ashong, lead singer of Soulfege and host of the Derrick Ashong Experience on Oprah Radio.

Nov 17th

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Nov 13th

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Nov 8th

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Cool piece on SnapGoods Community and team! Courtesy of Brooklyn Independent Television, a community media program of BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn Awesome job by John Carluccio!

Oct 22nd

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Oct 11th

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Possible Topics for Beer Diplomacy TV (October...

1. Cyber bullying or hate crime? And what should be done to prevent cyber bullying? http://bit.ly/9A0Ztg 2. Social commerce: how does a brand stop the hard sell to actually sell more? http://nyti.ms/c5O2rt 3. Where the ladies at? Where do tech and dating get weird? http://tcrn.ch/cAim6j 4. The Social Network: Who gives a f*&k about the idea? Is execution or ethics more important in biz....

Oct 4th

Vote us up. Get us to SXSWi! Vote early, vote often!

Aug 12th

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Jul 27th