How to Become a Modern CMO – Miko Matsumura

I am pleased to welcome Miko Matsumura (@mikojava), CMO of Gradle, as my latest podcast guest. I really enjoyed talking with Miko and absorbing his energy. In this episode Miko outlines what it takes to become a modern CMO. He gives five great points on what you should do in order to grab one of …

How to Build a Content Marketing Strategy – Jason English

In this episode I talk with Jason English (@bluefug), an enterprise technology marketing consultant and writer with more than 20 years of practice and management experience, from the earliest interactive firms, to startups and large software companies. Jason and I worked together at ITKO and ran content, product, social, event marketing and business development. We …

How My Blog Built My Business – Scott Baradell of Idea Grove

In this episode I talk with Scott Baradell (@DallasInbound). Scott and I talk about how his personal outlet built a multi-million dollar B2B marketing agency. His passion for writing began as a journalist and grew when he started blogging about his personal life, family and experiences. His blog then helped launch his public relations and technical …

Digital Media Headhunter – Jim Durbin

In this episode Jim and I talk about his digital media recruiting efforts and why people contact him. Jim recruits and places marketing people in all types of digital media, demand generation and event planning roles in all parts of the country. If you are looking for a position, contact Jim on your channel of choice but …

iCloud Corruption

honpotA couple of days ago my mother-in-law asked me to look at her iPhone. She was confused to why pictures she did not shoot were on her device. I took at look at her iPhone and did indeed find pictures that she probably didn’t take herself.

Upon further questioning, she did state she previously lost a device and purchased a new phone. Both devices have photo backup enabled on iCloud. She obviously did not change her password and now the possessor of the lost device is synching to her iCloud account. She has since changed her password.

If you have an iPhone and back up your photos you should do two things. You need to change your password if you suspect suspicious behavior or actions. You need to also disable the geo location data from your camera so pictures you take cannot be located by latitude and longitude.

College Move In Day

I love seeing all the stories about college move in day. Kids moving into their new dorm rooms and getting settled on their own for the first time. Some parents go to great lengths to make sure that their kids can get into their dorm rooms safely without any issues coddling them sometimes across town …

Ron’s Smoked Turkey Recipe

Smoking a turkey seems like a task you may not want to be assigned. There’s tremendous downside if your turkey doesn’t turn out. You could potentially have a dozen or so diners waiting on you and if you fail you won’t have time to recover. This recipe has been attempted several times and it always …

How I Explained DevOps to My Dad

I was hanging out with my dad recently when an old question came up yet again: “Tell me again, son, that software you sell, what does it do?” Oh no, I thought. Here we go again. So I launched into my spiel, explaining software development lifecycles and constraints, and how release automation tools and Service Virtualization software work to …