Matt Howell

Friday – Angie and I attended the opening night of “Jekyll & Hyde the Musical” at the Muncie Civic Theatre. After the show, we participated in the opening night toast. During that toast, one of the lead actresses got a engagement to remember as her boyfriend proposed in front of the crowd. http://www.munciecivic.org/ Saturday – [...]

I picked up the kiddos on Friday afternoon, made a quick pit-stop at home for warm clothes and made our way to the Winans Family Wiener Roast. Dick and Marlene host a wiener roast every year in celebration of October birthdays. My oldest son made his rounds selling Boy Scout popcorn to the family. Angie [...]

As I research more and more about branding, the more aware I am of customer service. Actually, more aware of BAD customer service. Why is it that any organization would hire a grumpy old woman to be the receptionist? Why would you risk destroying your company image with such a person? I’ve never understood that. [...]

Saturday night found me at the Cornerstone Center for the Arts at Craig and Kelly Hampton’s wedding reception. The evening went off without a hitch because of my good wedding coordinator friend, Bonnie Jordan, of Memorable Occasions. On Sunday, I picked up the kiddos from my parent’s house and we went to church in the [...]

“Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for – in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to [...]

Special thanks to Sam McKinney at SpinWeb for showing me that! :-)

Web 2.0 Expo NY: Gary Vaynerchuk (Wine Library), Building Personal Brand Within the Social Media Landscape

The weekend of Oct. 3-5 was “Fall Camporee” in New Castle. The event was held “Jamboree” style. All the troops camped out in an open field. We arrived Friday evening around 6pm and had camp setup by 7:30pm. We cooked chili for evening meal. Man, it was cold at night! Brrr. Saturday morning, we cooked [...]