To say that the last few years have been rough would be an understatement. The reality is though, that it is going to get a lot worse. Companies and organizations that went through (or worse) were started in the 90’s got a little spoiled. People would pay for stupid, worthless crap. Especially when it comes to B2B sales. Instead of trying to buy a quality product or service that would move a company forward, employees of the buyer’s just tried to spend money to make themselves look like they were working and contributing.

The truly sad thing is that it worked. You had companies who provided a bucket of crap selling to companies who could buy a bucket of crap and still continue to make profit. People spent freely and the bucket of crap continued to sell.

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Last night I saw a local blog post by Brant Collins that was a response to a twitter conversation with a good friend @Tsudo. In it Brant expresses a very elementary understanding of location based social media that sadly I have seen other “social media experts” struggle with as well.

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Several years ago I had a good conversation with a friend going into medical school and I asked him a question that had always made me curious: “Why do doctors call it practicing medicine?” The answer has stuck with me for a while, an answer I find confirmation in from time to time by doctors who enter and exit my life. The answer was “Because the day you stop practicing is the day you fail to understand medicine”.

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So it is the last day of the Tweetie nominations and you are having a little trouble picking the photo of the year? I’ve had a few people mention my photos so I figured I would make it easy and pull out a few of my favorites. You can of course just browse through my twitpics at http://twitpic.com/photos/jgreghenderson

Here are my top 6 in order of favorite, click on the photo to pull up a large version and grab the URL:

1) The alley monster outside @TheRep:

2) This is actually the original stolen @capitalhotel pen photo

3) Trying to cheer my wife up after our bad baby news

4) Well dressed homeless guy asleep outside @ArkBusiness

5) @LRTweetup strikes again (at city fest)

6) Living the High Life @robbymatthew’s house

The slow painful death of Mr. Snowman