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Raising Money For The Harford County Boys and Girls Club

Scott Cover — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:39:32 +0000

A good friend, George Robinson of Lightspeed Mobile Advertising, called us up last week and asked for our help. George was selected as one of the handful of people to participate in the 2010 Kiss A Pig fundraiser to benefit the Boys and Girls Clubs of Harford County. The goal is to see which one of these selected few can raise the most money, with the prize being to plant a big smacker right on a piglet’s mouth on August 18th at Ripken Stadium. The real prize is being able to provide the Boys and Girls Clubs of Harford County with enough funds to continue the great youth development programs in Aberdeen, Bel Air, Edgewood and Havre de Grace.

Help Raise Money for the Boys & Girls Clubs of Harford County

Foundations Technologies, Inc. has been helping George with his efforts by setting up and running the social media campaign through the Twitter account, Posterous Blog and Facebook page. Please visit www.pigkisser.com and join him at one of the many fundraising events between now and August 18th!

On The Horizon

Scott Cover — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:47:48 +0000

There are a bunch of things going on in the background with my company and this blog right now, so expect to see a bunch of changes appear here in the very near future. I’ll probably not be blogging until everything has been finished, so I wanted to make sure I took a moment to let everyone know that all my little projects and what not that have been mentioned on the blog are still in the works, and I’m not letting the blog flounder, it’s simply evolving.

In the mean time, feel free to keep up with me at Twitter.

So now I Tweet

Scott Cover — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:54:12 +0000

With the ever changing face of social networking it can be a horrid pain to keep up with all the new sites and tools that are out there, but I finally managed to get around to becoming a Twitter member. With as much as I’ve read recently about people finding others through Twitter or business relationships beginning through Twitter I felt it was time I joined the revolution and see what it was all about.

So feel free to stop by my Twitter profile and drop me a tweet. I have yet to decide at what level I’m going to get involved in the Twitter scene, but I’ll at least pop my head in every once in a great while and try and leave something worthwhile in my wake. Also, if you know of someone who is on Twitter that I might find interesting, please let me know so I can check them out.

Comments Upgrade

Scott Cover — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 18:47:18 +0000

The comments section has been moved over to the Intense Debate platform. I caught wind of this over at Alexander Muse’s Texas Startup Blog. Very nice tool which could greatly improve the blog comment landscape if widely adopted. It’ll be interesting as it will allow me to follow people that interest me and see what other blogs they comment in as well, and possibly lead to more interesting blogs I have yet to discover.

Keeping Your Blog Professional

Scott Cover — Wed, 14 May 2008 03:49:50 +0000

I’ve been keeping what amounts to a blog since 1997 in one form or another, but up until starting this blog had always kept my writings more on the personal level. I had brought up ideas or problems I had run into, but always kept a very personal and sometimes adversarial tone to topics. I realized that you cannot run a blog that tries to spread over very personal issues to those that are very business or technically oriented, and had wanted to write a more professional and business focused blog for a while.

Within the past six months or so I have become much more deeply involved in reading blogs of other people that cover the topics I am most interested in, and been utilizing technologies like Google Reader to limit the impact to my time. There are numerous blogs that I read that I truly enjoy, and cover a great number of topics to me, and some are written by people that have achieved success that I truly hope to emulate as I grow in my business.

Most of these blogs are either direct official company blogs, or the blog of the owner intending to spread the word about his company through social media. Every once in a great while though, I find things passing onto the web from one of these blogs that just really bothers me. One blog of a local technology company that I read, more for keeping up on the competition than anything, had a new employee post the following on their blog:

You could say I’m new here. Its certainly better then the battle zone I worked in before …

Frankly I’m still amazed that this post is still sitting on their website. No matter who the former employer happened to be, this is in my humble opinion completely unacceptable on an official company blog, and frankly I’d have had words with my employee as well as immediately removing that post from the blog.

I think some people have become too familiar with the environment surrounding social media and sometimes forget that they could have potential clients reading their blog, and if you are willing to say something that bad about a company publicly, think of what they might believe you are saying once the door closes. Remember, anyone can read what you posted, and with sites like Archive.org, it could last forever.