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The Memphis Zombie season is fast approaching and this year’s event will take place Friday, May 28th starting at 6:30pm (come early if you want your makeup done).  You’ve probably seen me pimping the event on twitter for the past 2 months or so.  From what I’ve read, this year is supposed to be bigger and better than the past events.  Memphis Zombies have a complete run down on what to expect.  It will blow your mind, and I’d definitely recommend you take advantage of the spectacle that is Memphis Zombie Walk.

If you’re trying to shed some weight from the winter and want to make sure you don’t get taken by the upcoming apocalypse, Wired Magazine has put together a zombie workout routine.  It focuses on lots of jumps, hurdles and runs to strengthen your legs and core in case you need to breakaway or hurdle buildings and barriers.  Here’s a synopsis of it.

Survival Workout

1. Climb
Zombies aren’t very spry, so climbing over barriers is a key evasive maneuver. Practice on a wall that’s a little taller than you.
Extra training: Pull-ups, bench dips
Muscles worked: Core, triceps, deltoids

2.  Free Fall
Jumping off a roof may provide temporary respite, but break a leg on landing and you’re dinner. Cushion the impact by extending your legs and touching down on the balls of your feet. Then get up and make tracks.
Extra training: Toe raises
Muscles worked: Calves, hamstrings

3.  Hurdle
Run at a sturdy obstacle—park bench, subway turnstile, picnic table. Dive forward, placing both hands on the object, and swing your legs up to your chest. The momentum will propel you over.
Extra training: Air squats, push-ups, sit-ups
Muscles worked: Pecs, delts, quads

4.  Breakaway
“Extricating yourself from a zombie’s grasp uses every muscle in your body,” says Rich Gatz of ZombieFit. Practice by lifting and tossing a big object like a tractor tire.
Extra training: Resistance running, weighted pull-ups and push-ups
Muscles worked: Lats, core, hamstrings

via Wired Magazine

Get Your Zombie Workout In Before Friday is a post from Bob Hazlett, a digital marketer who writes at One Half Amazing!

For the 3rd year in a row, I’ll be taking part in 48Hour Launch or what was formerly known as Startup Weekend Memphis. This year, the event begins on the evening of Friday, March 5 and ends with show and tell on the afternoon of Sunday, March 7th.  The entire weekend is a set of orchestrated madness where participants pitch their latest and greatest ideas, folks vote and form teams and then get to work on getting the business off the ground in the short span of 48 hours.

48Hour Launch is one of the most unique entrepreneurship programs in the country.  People of all skill levels and areas including marketing, development and design are encouraged to attend.  Last year, we had some amazing projects come out of the weekend including Mark’s Menus, The Roll Play and Cheezy Weezy. I’ve personally had the chance to meet and work with so many people who I normally wouldn’t.  Its great exploring new ideas with people who are passionate making Memphis the best.

I hope you’ll join us for 48Hour Launch over the first weekend in March at Emerge Memphis Launchpad.  Get your tickets today!

Launching Memphis in 48 Hours is a post from Bob Hazlett, a digital marketer who writes at One Half Amazing!

Saturday, Nov 14th marks BarCamp #2 for Memphis.  BarCamp Memphis is a small part of a larger network of user generated conferences or ‘unconferences.’ These events are open to everyone, participatory and ad-hoc. The content is determined and provided by the participants. Its pretty cool to see how it all shakes out.  

A lot of times, the BarCamp focuses on web applications, social media and related technologies. BarCamp Memphis has a list of topics ready for Saturday’s agenda.  Personally, I’m looking forward to Brian Cauble’s presentation on building an iPhone application, the Google Wave live demo and the cool stuff that BuckDaddy and Dave Delaney are going to serve up.  I’m also really excited to hear the panel conversation on community blogs that includes the fine folks at MemphisConnect, Nashvillest and Andre Natta of The Birmingham Terminal.

I’ll be tag teaming a presentation with Daniel Prichettt about setting up your own custom URL shortening service and helping out with some PowerPoint Karaoke during lunch.  I think you all will be in for a treat.

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BarCamp Memphis is a post from Bob Hazlett, a digital marketer who writes at One Half Amazing!

I hosted PowerPoint Karaoke last week and wanted to share the results with you. Toggle through the videos below.

In case you’re new to it, in PowerPoint Karaoke, contestants deliver PowerPoint presentations in a karaoke-styled venue. But there’s a twist: Presenters see the randomly chosen slides for the first time when they’re presenting. Presentations are on the clock and off the cuff. For more info, check out PowerPoint Karaoke

Thanks for everyone who came out, Craig from Space150 and the fine folks at Imation. We had a blast. #PPTK

PowerPoint Karaoke Memphis Style is a post from Bob Hazlett, a digital marketer who writes at One Half Amazing!

Come out to Social Camp Memphis on Saturday, September 19th at the Memphis Academy of Science and Engineering.  Social Camp is all about social media, social networking and the community of people behind it.

They’re still looking for good people to present their ideas and knowledge. So if you’ve got some burning knowledge or something you’d like to share, let them know.

To register, sponsor the event, or find out more, go to socialcampmemphis.com or follow them on twitter @socialcampmem

Social Camp Memphis – Saturday, Sept 19th. Grab Your Tickets Today! is a post from Bob Hazlett, a digital marketer who writes at One Half Amazing!

Startup Weekend returns to Memphis May 29th – 31st.  In case you’re new to the scene, Startup Weekend is a community building event that brings together the best local developers, marketers, designers and enthusiasts to do what they do best – start projects and start companies.  Your brain synapses will literally be firing on all cylinders for 54 hours straight.

The weekend starts Friday at 6pm and wraps up the evening of Sunday, May 31st.  The founders have put together a Facebook group to bounce around initial ideas, but project votes won’t be made until Friday evening.  This year the plan is to have multiple projects simultaneously move forward at the same time.

To give you an idea of the type of projects that get launched in a weekend, take a look at San Francisco, Phoenix, New York and Lexington.

Startup Weekend is limited to the first 100 people that sign up, so be sure to grab a ticket now.  Help support and grow the entrepreneurial spirit of Memphis.

Get Your Tickets to Memphis Startup Weekend is a post from Bob Hazlett, a digital marketer who writes at One Half Amazing!

Memphis Pillow Fight Bobby Digital Style from Bob Hazlett on Vimeo.

On March 21, 2009 a fun, old-fashioned pillow fight broke out in Overton Park. Bobby Digital was there to catch all of the action. Enjoy!

Memphis Pillow Fight is a post from Bob Hazlett, a digital marketer who writes at One Half Amazing!

Come out to Social Camp Memphis on Saturday, March 7th at the Memphis College of Art.  Social Camp is all about social media, social networking and the community of people behind it.  Learn about Twitter, Facebook, using new media in business and much more.  For more information or to register, check out the official Social Camp Memphis site.

Can’t get enough of Tommy?  Check out the Tommy the Toilet outtakes.

Tommy the Toilet Invites You To Social Camp Memphis is a post from Bob Hazlett, a digital marketer who writes at One Half Amazing!

Originally posted November 8, 2008

BarCamp Memphis was great. If you missed my presentation or are interested in viewing it again, feel free to send me an email or check it out via SlideShare below.

You Suck at Social Media – BarCamp Edition is a post from Bob Hazlett, a digital marketer who writes at One Half Amazing!

Originally posted October 25, 2008

What is BarCamp? – BarCamp Memphis is part of a network of user generated conferences – open, participatory workshop events whose content is provided by the participants.  Often, content focuses on early-stage web applications, social media and related open source technologies.  I got the chance to attend BarCamp Nashville a couple weeks ago and it was simply amazing.  LunaWeb has a great overview of BarCamp.

When? November 7 – 8th

How Much? – leave your money at home, BarCamp is free

Where can I get more information? – BarCampMemphis.org, follow on Twitter or Join us on Facebook.

How do I sign up? – Sign up for BarCamp Memphis via EventBrite

BarCamp Memphis – Calling All Thought Leaders is a post from Bob Hazlett, a digital marketer who writes at One Half Amazing!

Originally posted October 8, 2008

I’ll admit that there is a lot of stuff out there in terms of social media.  Some of it’s good and some of it’s bad.  Here are some of the folks I’ve found who actually understand social media and its application.

Chris Brogan – Chris advises businesses, organizations and individuals on how to use social media and social networks to build relationships. He builds great content and is one of my must-read feeds every morning.  It’s almost like I think of a question about social media, it’s then transmitted wirelessly to his brain and posted to his blog the next day.  He’s always been very responsive and helpful in answering any and every question I had.  For me, Chris is better than those little fried onion crisps that your mom used to put on green bean casserole. What I want a Social Media Expert to Know, His best advice on social media and 50 ideas on using twitter for business are some of my favorite posts.

Dosh Dosh – Maki offers internet marketing, blogging tips and social media strategies for entrepreneurs, marketers and small business owners. The key to effective viral marketing is emotional engagement, his three-part strategy on developing tactical knowledge on social media websites and this post on relevance and distribution; 2 essential factors in social media marketing made my day.

Darren Rowse - Problogger is probably best known for his tips on helping you make money from your blog, but Darren also has a great grasp on social media.  Some of my favorite articles are Blogging Tips for Beginners, 21 Tips to Pitching Bloggers and 5 Lesson Learned Launching your Next Venture Using Social Media.

Jeremiah Owyang – Jeremiah is a web strategist and analyst at Forrester Research.  He discusses the tools that allow businesses to connect with their customers. If I had a nickle for every amazing web post he’s written, I’d be a rich man.  Explaining the social graph to executives and his list of web marketing must be tagged and passed on.

Beth Kanter - I know a lot of my readers come from non-profit organizations. Beth specializes in training non-profits and individuals in effective use of social media.  It doesn’t get much better than Beth in the non-profit space. Check out Open Thread: How does my non-profit organization get started with social media! What should we do first?, How to Develop a Social Media Plan in 5 Easy Steps or her collection of Social Media How-to Screencasts.

Memphis Social Media Experts

* Dave Barger - Dave puts on Social Media Breakfast Memphis, runs LunaWeb and has been instrumental in Startup Weekend and BarCamp Memphis.  He’s always on the cutting edge and looking for new ways to use social media in business.
* Daniel Pritchett – I met Daniel at Social Media Breakfast and am always interested in what he has to say on his Sharing at Work blog.  How Twitter is affecting major brands online and Improving participation by simplifying sharing are 2 posts I really enjoyed.

Did I leave someone important off this list?  Let me know in the comments.

Cut the Clutter: 7 Social Media Experts to Follow is a post from Bob Hazlett, a digital marketer who writes at One Half Amazing!

Check out the image below, its from Rhodes College.  While looking for some adult education classes I came across their form for a free class catalog.  The only (and big) thing wrong with it is that it requires a CAPTCHA to process your request.  The issue in this example is that the CAPTCHA image is broken, so the user will never be able to submit the form.

There are too many tools available today for this not to work.  Instead of playing the $350 for the class, I guess I’ll just find some videos on YouTube. Do you think Rhodes will notice?

Lessons in Online Marketing – Make Sure Your Form Works is a post from Bob Hazlett, a digital marketer who writes at One Half Amazing!

Google releases geo-performance reporting feature

10 Web Applications for FriendFeed

Social Media Breakfast #6 Memphis and an update from Sharing at Work

Will it Matter in 5 Years?

On Demand WordPress Theme and a nice Thesis Update

The Most Brilliant Outdoor Campaign Ever

How Simple Web Design Helps Your Business and 40 Creative Design Layouts from Smashing Magazine

I also ordered two books: The Leader of the Future 2 and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There

What I’m Reading this Week is a post from Bob Hazlett, a digital marketer who writes at One Half Amazing!

Big thanks out to Dave Barger of LunaWeb and Justin McGregor for putting together and presenting at Social Media Breakfast Memphis today. There was lots of great dialogue and idea sharing amongst the group pertaining to using RSS, LinkedIn, Twitter and FriendFeed. Today’s meeting was held at Mantia’s, here in Memphis.

Social Media Memphis Facebook Group
Meetup – Social Media Breakfast

Memphis Social Media Breakfast is a post from Bob Hazlett, a digital marketer who writes at One Half Amazing!