Everyone around me seems to be trying to figure social media out.  From the largest media companies (I was just sitting down with one that's desperate to find a strategy that works) to the real estate market, the hot topic is how to make social media work for

I've been a longtime fan & user of Callwave, as evidenced by this blog [https://drodio.com/callwave-is-amazing/], and this one [https://drodio.com/my-quest-for-original-content/] (I haven't actually listened to a voicemail since May of 2007!).  However, Callwave has moved away from the voicemail transcription business.

So I'm actually pretty reluctant to post this Twitter secret I've figured out, because it's actually a pretty amazing secret, but in the spirit of always being as open as possible, here goes.  Plus, I owe an explanation to Mark Boslet of the blog

Here's an amazingly succinct guide by NPR about the "bad banks" and what it all means [http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=375]. It's really, really scary.Especially scary is this graph, showing "twin peaks" - a ratio of consumer

If I directed you to this post, it might be because you asked "Why DROdio?!" Here's why I prefer DROdio: My full name is "Daniel Rubén Odio". My handle on LinkedIn, Twitter/X, Github, Facebook and just about everything is a mashup of my

I've been nominated to Governor Kaine's "Commonwealth Competition Council [http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?000+cod+2.2-2622]" and will be presenting this presentation tomorrow [http://idisk.mac.com/drodio-Public/danielodio/Commonwealth%20Competition%20Council%20Presentation.pdf] about how to cut costs

Paul Graham, the founder of Viaweb and now Y Combinator [https://www.ycombinator.com/], has some amazingly educational essays about being an entrepreneur.  If you're serious about being an entrepreneur, make sure you read all of his essays [http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html]. Here is a great

This is the first of what will be a series of video blogs that I'll be posting as we ramp up a new startup called PointAbout.  In each of these video blogs, I'll give the following disclaimers: 1) There may be a long delay between the

I've begun posting to Twitter consistently (you can follow our PointAbout account [http://www.twitter.com/PointAbout] here, or my personal DROdio account [http://www.twitter.com/drodio] here) and I just had a fellow Realtor email me saying, "I noticed you're now following me

Here's a tip I picked up from Sean Shadmand [http://www.seanshadmand.com/] about making your iPhone's speakerphone louder (actually, this works for any phone). Just stick the phone on top of a cup, and the reverberation from the speakerphone in the cup dramatically increases the

As part of my efforts to foster entrepreneurism in the Metro DC area, I've gotten involved with a stellar organization called NFTE (the Network For for Teaching Entrepreneurship) [http://www.nfte.com/], which focuses on encouraging young people to be entrepreneurs (mostly high schoolers, I believe). I recently

I was one of three panelists on an NVTC / Equal Footing Entrepreneurship Panel moderated by Paul Sherman of Potomac Tech Wire for an auditorium of high school students.  Here is video from the event.

My thoughts on networking events, as I was on my way to Price Waterhouse Cooper's MoneyTree event.

I've started doing a lot of YouTube video blogging and I've been working on finding the best video camera for the job.Since I post mostly to YouTube, I don't need a super high resolution camera.   I've been using a Canon SD900

I'll be speaking at McIntire's DC Entrepreneurship Dinner next Thursday, if anyone would like to attend.  Here's the information from McIntire.  Hope anyone interested in DC Entrepreneurship can attend! The McIntire School of Commerce invites you to join fellow young alumni and McIntire alumnus

Sometimes trends sit on the horizon for so long that people start to dismiss them.  LBS is one of those.  LBS stands for "Location Based Search" and it means just that - you can search for what you want, where you are, when you want it.  Let me

Matt is my hero. And if you like that one, here are his older ones: From 2005: And from 2006:

I'm trying to decide if most people are dumb, or just lazy.  Or maybe there isn't a big difference between the two in practical terms. Don't get me wrong, I love people.  I'm an ENTJ on the Myer's Brigg'

Global Marketing: Companies in this space spend hundreds of millions of dollars annually or more to become known worldwide.  Brands in this category include Coke, Nike, The Olympics, etc.  The litmus test for this category is that you know the bran even if you're not in the market

Anyone who is even mildly interested in how the real estate bubble, foreclosure crisis, and ensuing credit crisis happened absolutely must listen to this broadcast called "The Giant Pool of Money, [http://www.thislife.org/radio_episode.aspx?episode=355]" a joint broadcast between NPR and This American

I've mentioned before [https://drodio.com/callwave-is-amazing/] how much I like Callwave.  Well, time to increase that "likeability" measurement again!  Callwave has introduced a "visual text" system they call "vtxt" which automatically translates the spoken word to the written word.  And the

Google loves original content, and so our real estate firm [http://www.drodio.com/] finds itself on a never ending quest to create this original content so Google will rank us higher in its search engine algorithms. The strategy has worked very well thus far.  Our traffic has risen 100x,