Greg Swan

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December 2010 Blizzard – 16 inches!

In Chaska on December 14, 2010 at 10:58 am

Here’s a photo of my house. Uh-huh.

December 2010 Blizzard - 13.5"

More photos here.

I discovered the “catch” in Google Chrome’s free holiday GoGo wi-fi promo

In Armchair Marketing, From the Road on December 13, 2010 at 9:52 pm

The freemium option has limited bandwidth…

I actually found it quite difficult to log-in to my personal GoGo account to see how much GoGo Unlimited pricing was….$35/month = certainly not free.

A true freemium campaign should make it easy for me to upgrade my current account from the denial of service screen.

Because encountering a “Sorry, we’re limiting your internet” screen is extraordinarily frustrating (particular to a business travel with an e-mail inbox full of billable work) it should be as easy as possible for them to use the stick in the “carrot and stick” marketing strategy to take money from me in this situation.

But no. Not easy. Then I tried to just buy a one-day pass (thinking maybe that wouldn’t limit my usage), but I can’t report if that works since the payment system didn’t remember my billing information from my flight last week.

And since my wallet is in my jacket and since my jacket is in the overhead bin and since I’m in a window seat three people down from the aisle, I guess I’ll just stick with the freemium service for today.

GoGo is a NoGo. We’ll see if it opens back up enough for me to publish this post.

The Digital Story of the Nativity

In Social Media on December 13, 2010 at 8:17 pm

How social media, web and mobile tell the story of the Nativity…

But what I want to know is who was the Mayor of the manger? And were there any nearby specials?

Greg Swan named to Twin Cities Top Ten Titans In Social Media 2010

In In the News, Social Media on December 10, 2010 at 12:23 pm

Look Mom, I made a list.

The people who made the list have made an impact on Twin Cities society through using social media in the past year…One thing that that determined the winners is that they are people finding new ways to use social media and pushing the limits of the platforms they are using.

Nominations were open to the public and were taken from November 8 – November 30, 2010. Over 40 nominees were selected from the nominations received. From the pool of nominees a list of Top Ten Titans In Social Media were selected (by judges).

Here’s my write-up:

See the whole list here.

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