House keeping: …. We apologize for not posting for awhile. Our friend and colleague [ now - former] is busy helping others with social media initiatives elsewhere. We’re glad we were able to share with him the social media side of things and he was able to continue to show us what a [...]

I have a confession to make: I’m not a very good listener. If there’s a computer or other glowing screen in front of me, forget it.
In more important conversations, instead of listening, I’m often thinking of what I’m going to say next. Or maybe I’m daydreaming about fondue or professional wrestling or something. [...]

A recent TV campaign for a new Motorola smartphone satirizes both the pervading silliness in new media messages (the category of communication that brought us OMG and LMFAO) and traditional media’s struggle to get hip to it.
A “serious” anchorman reads inane new media messages, such as, “This just in via text message and wall post: [...]

Refresh. Reload. Repeat.
Long a staple of the web-browsing experience, the “refresh” button, that little clockwise-twirling (our counterclockwise if you’re in Australia) arrow is often our usher to new content. Though we don’t think twice about it, the action it triggers, the page reload, is a clunky holdover from, I guess you could say, web 1.0.
It’s [...]

Do we live in a canceling culture? Are our promises to meet with friends and colleagues often underscored by a default mode of insincerity, a defensive urge not to follow through. Liz Danzico suggests that we frequently operate in “empty promise patterns,” and I find myself sadly agreeing.
I was introduced to Danzico’s excellent Bobulate blog [...]

How die-hard are the die-hardest baseball fans? And, for that matter, how do you measure die-hardness, anyway?
Russ Maschmeyer, a student at New York’s School of Visual Arts, thinks he has the answer. Under the tutelage of New York Times graphics director Steve Duenes, Mr. Maschmeyer created this amazing infographic which measures the loyalty of baseball [...]

Sometimes it takes a massive disruption to get a company to change its business model.
Such was the case with Lonely Planet. As TechCrunch reports, travel guide publisher gave away mobile app travel guides for 13 European cities free for four days to travelers stranded by the eruption of Eyjafjallajokull, the Icelandic volcano whose belches of [...]

How often do you see a coffee shop or a bar try to promote its social media profiles by placing a Facebook or Twitter logo in its newspaper ad or store window? Or maybe by writing simply “Follow us on Twitter” on the chalkboard advertising their specials?
And then they don’t tell you how to [...]

IAMKC.com is a blog, a channel, a movement(!) that we at Locker Partner have been wanting to launch for months. Our idea: set up a site and start filling it with cool content about our favorite Kansas City businesses, organizations, people, places, brands, landmarks, restaurants, shops, cultural institutions, neighborhoods, ice cream parlors, burger joints, flora, [...]

This morning, I was seriously considering posting a linkdump of all the news going on with Twitter lately: the apps controversy, the promoted tweets, the Library of Congress’ tweet archive, the junk science of Kardashploitation…
After all, Twitter has absolutely dominated the news lately. Even the old computer guys on local 10 a.m. call-in radio show [...]