Most people I talk to are using a social media. Does that make it important? No, but can you ignore it? No. If you have any doubt about using social media you will need to watch this video. (Read Blog)

I read a lot and I mean a lot of newsletters and articles each day talking about mobile and mobile video are the next biggest thing. I agree but it has always been tough to nail down time lines as to when mobile video would be considered a legitimate media by advertisers. Yes people have been advertising via mobile video for a while. (Read Blog)

Here is a great Video to see where the future of journalism and ad revenues are going. (Read Blog)

Recently I was asked if money can be made with Twitter. My answer is YES! Before you run out and set up your Twitter account I want to temper your expectations. (Read Blog)

I have had several discussions recently about the pay model for internet content. I wanted to weigh in on this because it will be an ongoing topic for some time to come. Just so you know I am “mostly” against a pay model. What I mean by mostly is the average news website..... (Read Blog)

As I type this BLOG on a Windows XP machine I realize that a lot of irony goes into what I am getting ready to say which is WINDOWS Sucks. My company buys me a Windows machine and so I use a Windows machine. I have had this PC just over a year and I received it with Windows Vista. Within two hours I had found ten things that the new machine could not do because of driver issues and other configuration issues that we had to labor through. (Read Blog)

If you have not experienced Alice.com you should. I found it through an article I had read recently and just started using their service. For those who have not gone to the site yet, they are an online grocery store with no perishable items. I just purchased razors, shampoo and soap. (Read Blog)

I am in sales and work with businesses of varying sizes and through my travels I have seen a lot of bad websites. I have learned how to be as diplomatic as possible in suggesting ways to improve upon bad websites. I just read the article “Showdown At The Web Corral: Convincing Your Boss to Fix a Hideous Website” by Dan Heath from “Fast Company” magazine that provides a solution to make changes happen. (Read Blog)

I have talked about smart phones in the past and I am still a professed iPhone fan. I just read an article from my iPhone about smart phones that I wanted to share with you because it touches on two phone companies that have a special place in my heart; Motorola and Blackberry. (Read Blog)

When I started blogging I wondered if what I would write would impact or resonate with anyone. Well this week my question was answered. I received the following email from a nice gentleman; “I just stumbled on and old blog you had written at the beginning of the year. Well how did it go did you lose the twenty pounds? Just kidding. The article lifted my spirits........ (Read Blog)

I just read the article by Aaron Goldman from August 26th "Even More On: Everything I Need to Know About Marketing I Learned From Google" where he offers 10 things he learned about marketing I wanted to share with you. (Read Blog)

Social sites can be such a TIME SUCK that I have to limit my time. Here is just a small list of social sites available; Facebook, Twitter, Linked In, AIM Status, GTalk Status, Plurk, MySpace, Tumblr, Identi.ca, Brightkite, FriendFeed, Jaiku, Blogger, Plaxo Pulse, LiveJournal, Bebo, hi5, Mashable, kwippy, Xanga, WordPress.com, Delicious, Friendster, Yahoo 360, Koornk, Diigo, you are, Multiply, Yammer, Flickr, Utterli, imeem, seismic, Laconi.ca, Present.ly, Vox, TypePad, ShoutEm, StreetMavens, Radar, myYearbook, Photobucket, Posterous, Yahoo Profiles, Tagged. So many social sites, so little time to visit each one. There are more social sites out there, if I missed one you like I apologize now. (Read Blog)

I read a ton of newsletters each day and besides Health Care Reform and the economy all everyone wants to talk about is social media and how it can be used for business. As the title states our country has gone Twitter crazy and Facebook mad. Yes I participate in all of them so I can better understand how to use them in the media world and the business environment. Social Marketing is like any other marketing, understand your audience and you provide them with information and offers that will help drive traffic. (Read Blog)

Have you seen the Palm Pre commercials? A lot of chatter on the internet about how these commercials makes people feel creepy. I have watched several versions and I liked the commercial. I am not creeped out by them. Take a look and let me what you think. (Read Blog)

By Mark Walsh, Thursday, July 23, 2009, 4:00 PM. The Pew Research Center study released Wednesday on wireless Internet use showed steady gains in the proportion of people accessing the mobile Web. (Read Blog)

After looking through the twitter followers for WKYT, guess what Matthew Robson is correct. Most of the followers are what teenagers would call old people. Of course everything is relative. What is interesting about the article is how teenagers consume media. Look at the insert pulled from the article. I have also included a link to the article from The Times dated July 14, 2009. How are the teenagers you know consuming media? (Read Blog)

As many of you may know I have been a loyal Blackberry user for years. I have even written about them in previous BLOGS. My loyalty ran so deep I proclaimed I would never switch. I was excited when the Storm came out to go up against the mighty iPhone. Don’t get me wrong I like Apple products, I have an iMac at home and it is great. The problem I thought I had with the phone was the keyboard and it wasn’t business phone. (Read Blog)

Hi I’m Tim and I am a twitter-aholic! That will be the meeting I will have to attend if I don’t stop checking for updates. For those of you who have not started twittering be careful. I want to warn you, because once you start, it will become addictive. My life can now be summed up in 140 characters or less. Follow me on twitter at http://www.twitter.com/timcoles and see how mundane my life is. (Read Blog)

I get this all the time from clients; “I know I need to build a website”. You’re darn straight you need to build a website because your competition is online. Getting companies to advertise online is a difficult task and it is exacerbated by the fact most companies either have no website or they have a really bad website. (Read Blog)

As I sit in my office deciding on what to BLOG about I was thinking about how the internet and mobile internet devices are democratizing our world. Like that is some great insight that someone hasn’t shared already. Here is the thing, as I sit here putting this together I get to have a voice. I get to express myself in a way that only I can do and then post it so it can be found and read…..That’s right “Hello World I am somebody!” (Read Blog)

The first and last VLOG discussing how simple it is to use a FLIP video camera..... (Read Blog)

Have you heard the term SEO? If you are not familiar with what it means, it stands for Search Engine Optimization. Here is how Wikipedia defines it; “Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the volume and quality of traffic to a web site from search engines via "natural" ("organic" or "algorithmic") search results. (Read Blog)

This video says everything about how much we don't appreciate what we have, especially technology. (Read Blog)

Last week I went on a rant about delaying the Digital transition. This week I am interviewing WKYT’s resident expert on the Digital Transition, Mike Kanarek. Mike happened to read my blog post from last week and he corrected some on the language I used so I thought why not lay it all out on the table and talk about what our viewers are facing. As most of you know the digital transition has been delayed until June 12th. (Read Blog)

A few days ago Google launched a new feature to their maps application called Latitude. It basically allows you to share your location with friends and family. (Read Blog)

I can’t believe we are going to delay the switch over from Analog to Digital television from February17th until June. Why are we delaying the transition? Because our new President and our representatives on Capitol Hill think you, our viewers, are not ready. Once again our government is wasting our time and our money for no reason. (Read Blog)

Day three with no power at home and I still can’t complain. Being a guy who has the “glass is half full” attitude, the only thing I can say is that this could be worse. My family and I are fortunate in that we have family who still has power so we have been living like refugees moving from place to place. In the past we would go out to eat and leave as soon as we were done, now that we are refugees we linger as long as possible. (Read Blog)

The inauguration last week was an historic day in America and it made me proud to be an American. We swore in the first black president and had a peaceful change of power. As much as the first black president is important so is the how he got elected and the tools he used. The election will mark how technology was used to get a politician elected to the highest office. (Read Blog)

Fifteen days into the New Year and I am just now getting back to writing my BLOG. So far 2009 has been a whirl wind of activity. So I thought I would start this year off with my predictions. If you listen to the national news we are in the tank, the only thing left is to through the dirt over us and put a headstone up. (Read Blog)

If you did a poll with my immediate family they would tell you that I am the designated “Geek”. As such here are the phone calls I get. An unspecified Family member (the names shall remain anonymous to protect the innocent and keep from bruising someone’s ego) ..... (Read Blog)

Well Christmas is here weather I like it or not. I love the name of the first shopping day after Thanksgiving, Black Friday. It sounds sinister but the all it means is that retailers see this as the first day to operate in the Black. Some bean counter must have thought this one up. What happened this morning? The Alarm clock goes off at 4:30 am so my wife can join the stampede of shoppers who are looking for bargains and hard to find items. (Read Blog)

It looks like the Holidays are upon us and it’s time to start shopping. I don’t know about you but I have a love-hate relationship with the holidays. I love the holidays because I get to spend time with people I normally don’t see regularly; aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, cousins, in-laws and sometimes out-laws. It is a time to gather and watch “Christmas Vacation” and hope no looks at me and calls me “Eddie”. (Read Blog)

I went to a NASCAR race in Atlanta recently and I had to take a AT&T laptop connect card to be able to access the internet. Being connected all the time isn’t what it’s cracked up to be. (Read Blog)

So this morning I got up a little early so I could get to my polling place in Richmond to vote. I wanted to beat the long lines that have been predicted. I was there about 15 minutes after it opened and I still had to wait 30 minutes. I am not complaining especially after hearing about people who have gone to vote early in other states who waited for five hours. (Read Blog)

OK if you haven’t heard about twitter.com then you are not part of the internet in-crowd. People are all abuzz over the newest social networking tool. What is Social Networking; it is defined on Wikipedia as...... (Read Blog)

OK so you can guess from the title that I carry a Blackberry. Why I started with a Blackberry I cannot tell you why but I will say that I would have a hard time switching to another platform. I know the iPhone users are going to hold on we have the best platform and the loyal Blackberry users will say the same. (Read Blog)

I am back in the office this week after spending three days in our Effective Advertising Seminar. The reason I am writing about the seminar is that I thought it was interesting to see how local businesses reacted to the financial news that has been going on (For those who are not aware it seems that we have a financial crisis going on). (Read Blog)

Have you received an email that you have to scroll down for about ten minutes to get to the actual heart of the email? How frustrating is that! The email has been forwarded about hundred times. You know the one I am talking about and the email was so good that you forwarded it along with all of the other email addresses. (Read Blog)

I have made fun of people with Bluetooth ear buds for years. My brother Eddie has had one stuck in the side of his head for as far back as I can remember. We will be driving down the road he will tap his earpiece and start talking. I see people walking around with these things in their ears and I think they look so stupid. (Read Blog)

Have you WOOTED today? Yes I am Wooter and I am proud of it. I have only been Wooting for a short period of time and can say that I am addicted. I can see myself going to the WA(Woot Anonymous) meetings – Hi I’m Tim and I am a “Wooter”. Do I have your attention? (Read Blog)

Ok so by now most people in the US know that HD will be the only format distributed to homes starting in 2009. This was a decision that our lawmakers decided a while back. I personally think its a great decision... (Read Blog)

This is one of the oldest questions in the computing world. Which platform is better? (Read Blog)

Since this is my inaugural post I thought it would be appropriate to tell a little about myself. Hopefully it will give a little insight into why I am writing about technology, other than the fact that I am a guy who loves gadgets. (Read Blog)