Devin Reams

I’ve seen, first hand, the challenges faced when trying to get a group of people together on the internet. I’m a member of a of a number of online communities. I’ve also helped found a few communities. They include:

9rules - a group I really wanted to become a part of, the best of the best [...]

I had a blast last weekend in San Francisco. My buddy Noah (and Adam) hosted the second Community Next conference. Luckily I was invited. I’ve put some photos online and my quick thoughts are found below.
VIP Dinner
Friday was the VIP Dinner. I chatted with a bunch of awesome guys including the CTO of Pandora Tom [...]

Andre wrote an interesting article on naming products yesterday. This is where I step in and argue the opposite: names don’t matter.
I was talking with Chris one morning and we stumbled into an interesting discussion. What do you think of when you hear of some famous company names for the first time?

Burger King and [...]

As you may know, I helped Noah organize a conference in February. Now, Adam is organizing the next Community Next: The premier conference on viral marketing! Learn how to grow your site/business to a millions users and more… The morning sessions will feature panel-style discussion with the afternoon turning to group breakouts.

I had never been to Sonic so when one opened down the street I was drawn to it. Maybe it’s the prospect of skates, maybe its the bright lights at night. Or, it may just be the fun experience I had yesterday.

Dear Google,
What have you done lately to “organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful?” Seriously, all I hear about lately is how you’re spending and making lots of money. Where does the information fit in?

I hate the (RED) campaign and everyone associated with it (both the consumers and the companies advocating it). Josh Spear has posted a neat little news clip about it. CNN says:
It has cost $100M to market the campaign while only raising $18M for charity.
No kidding? Get people to “give” more by spending more on themselves? [...]

How dare they! It’s true though. We all know the blogosphere is not just used to talk about our cats and day at the mall. Blogs are great ways to communicate. Executives can publish one post and have the entire world up-to-date, companies can talk to its current and potential customers, people can share their [...]

I want to talk about marketing production quality and how Miss Dewey lacks it. If you haven’t seen this site yet, it’s basically a search engine with a saucy librarian standing there being snarky and clever on occasion. If you don’t get around to typing in a search she’ll try to get your attention.

Quite annoying, [...]

I received a neat little letter from Ford in the mail today. As with all junk mail, I opened it. To my surprise I was invited to purchase an 06/07 vehicle from Ford and instant get $500 off! Wowzers, Ford, great idea! Let me go visit your cool website: fordcollegehq.com. Whoa, wait. What is this? [...]

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