I have been thinking about the cult of personality lately. As geeks, we always like to think we are so nouveau, so cutting-edge in our attempts to lasso technology. Especially in the social media arena. Our pink-haired, horn-rimmed nerdy selves keep trying to out-tweet, out-blog and out-optimize one another in an effort to be ahead

I was sitting in a break-out session at a very prestigious law conference when an older lawyer asked, “what is marketing? I just don’t get it.”

Out of my mouth, faster than than I could think, I said, “it’s just like dating.”

And it is.

Marketing is like trying to get that first meeting to

Most presidents of this country have tons of media exposure, of course, around election time, at the inauguration and State of the Union Address. Usually it trails off afterwards except for sporadic events in history, exciting legislation or regularly scheduled press conferences. Not with Obama—he seems to be on television many times a day along