The armory was the perfect ambience for what was to be one of the biggest shows on Tiesto‘s tour with a sold out crowd of nearly 10,000 trance fans. While Tiesto is just a DJ, he is like no other DJ the world has ever seen. He’s played at the opening ceremony of the Olympics [...]
First Evernote Meetup in Washington, DC
I’m an avid user of Evernote. Since the first day the iPhone has given me death grip hands, their icon has been on my first home screen page. I use Evernote mostly to transfer notes from my work desktop to my iPhone for meetings. It’s part of my mission to become entirely paper-free in the [...]
Bizarre, weird and funny Twitter accounts: Would you follow them?
I’m not sure what’s the purpose of these accounts, other than pure entertainment. I find myself following them because through all my friends, news feeds, and social marketing tips, catching a tweet from someone like @AngryMime with silent outbreaks of “!!!!!” make you shake you head a little bit more. Worth a follow? @AngryMime This guy [...]
How I found the cheapest hotels in Las Vegas using Twitter
There are thousands of websites for finding the best hotels deals online, but I’ve discovered the best deals are hidden in Twitter feeds. My scenario: I’m heading to Las Vegas for the Rock n Roll Las Vegas Marathon in December, and I need a hotel for 5 days. About a month ago, I started following [...]
Not An Ounce Of Water Today
Today I spent most the day out of my office and in meetings, far from having a regular routine. I took the Metromix team out to lunch at Lia’s in Chevy Chase, and we spent the afternoon talking about plans for the second year of the site. Now that it’s been a year since launch, [...]
Las Vegas Marathon: First Week of Training
This is the week I start my first of 18 weeks training for the Las Vegas Marathon. I’m looking forward to running in it this year, because I’ve been on this marathon’s list to run for the past couple years but always postponed. My motivation is to drop some pounds, get back into an exercise [...]
Quit resetting the clock
I’m tired of resetting the clock. I’ve run out of excuses. This was a horrible week for getting back in shape. And you know what? So was last week…and the week before that, and before that, etc. I’ve put this damn thing off so many times thinking I’ll just start over, then I continue to [...]
SparkPeople.com looks appetizing again
I joined SparkPeople.com in December 2007 when I started gaining some of the weight back from losing it with a personal trainer. In fact, I blogged about it way back when. I needed something to keep track of my calories burned, and this site seemed to fit perfectly. It is an online diet and healthy [...]
Using Twitter in the Newsroom
WUSA 9 in Washington, DC started the new year offering weekly training seminars for everyone on staff called 9 University. Each week, there are courses ranging from SharePoint and Google Docs to writing better headlines and streaming Mogulus. Twitter was taught as a two-part series: how it works, and how to use it in a [...]
How I burn more than 4,000 calories a day
As part of my workout routine, each Sunday morning I post on Twitter my pounds lost, calories eaten, calories burned and water intake. Last Sunday’s tweet read: “Fitness check-in: -6 pounds this week, -6 pounds since March 1. Avg calories eaten: 1,783/day; Avg burned: 4,007/day; water: 80oz/day.” Part of my routine is tracking all my [...]
Twestival for those who Twitter in DC
Twestivals are community gatherings to meet those who use the microblogging social network Twitter and raise money and awareness for charity. The buzz around the Twestival for Washington, DC was hightened on Twitter a couple weeks prior to the event. There were other Twestivals happening at the same time as ours, including ones in London, [...]
Twitter and myFOXstl
myFOXstl.com and Twitter are working together to bring the latest news updates to you! We will be updating Twitter.com with all of our top St. Louis news and weather stories as they are relevant to the Twitters 24 hours a day. This is just another way of keeping the community informed as news develops. What [...]