Rocket Watcher by April Dunford

At a marketing conference this week Jason Scott of @sockington told a room full of marketers that he thinks we are all a bunch of spammers. I disagree.

ShareThomas Fuchs Martin over at webproductblog.com had a great post called “the 7 reasons why good product managers must be on Twitter” which covers the big reasons like listening to customer feedback and connecting with other PM’s.  This then got me thinking about other perhaps less pressing reasons to be on Twitter and I give [...]

ShareThe last few days I’ve had a lot of interesting conversations about Twitter because what I am now referring to as “the incident”.  This has already discussed way beyond what it deserves but there is one point that has been missed that I feel like I need to clarify.
The reporter did not call me because [...]

ShareEarlier today I was involved in a Twitter fight which was captured in a few places, including here (mediastyle.ca) and here (Torontoist) and here (Valleywag.  My version of the events is described in the post – Unhappy Customers Complain.  The apology from the National Post is here.
I think I’ve said everything I can on either [...]

ShareAh the holiday season.  The decorations!  The music!  The crazy,
stressed-out sprint to the end of the quarter!!!  This time of the year
always gets me pondering why some people are so amazingly
execution-oriented and others, well, let’s just say if these folks were
in charge Mussolini probably could have gotten away with a stern
talking to.
I talked in my [...]

ShareToday Alltop launched productmanagement.alltop.com and Rocket Watcher made the cut of the 25 or so blogs listed there.  In addition to getting some traffic driven to this site, I get to put this nifty little red badge on my site that you see below my photo over on the right.
Whoop-dee-doo!  How did this happen!?
In a [...]