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While we were talking social media last night, Kings fans WERE MAKING IT HAPPEN with social media

Posted on October 12, 2011 by Josh Morgan

Last night I was at a meeting of the Sacramento Social Media Club. We were talking about how social media has been used, misused and even sometimes abused by large companies as part of a panel on “Social Media Horror Stories.” Little did we know that while we were talking about horror stories, there was a fairy tale taking place in Sacramento for Kings fans on social media.

It all started with a tweet from @sacgirl88:

Yes, the @DonteGreeneCOS is THE Donte Greene of the Sacramento Kings. He’s active on Twitter and always engaging with fans and other NBA players.

Donte seemed to like the idea and sent out a tweet of his own, and called out a few of his friends to see if they would be up for it:

That was a little gasoline on the fire and it grew into a discussion today on Carmichael Dave’s radio show on KHTK.  I caught this last night when I got home and asked my friend Nancy Daley about it today and she summed it up:

Well….. apparently last night someone, I think sacgirl88 (Amy), tweeted something to the effect of “Hey dontegreeneCOS, how about an exhibition game in Sacramento?” and Donte saw it and said “OK!”.

Then BOOM went Twitter.

Everyone thinks this would be awesome…. Grab Carmichael Dave and get him involved. Get Jiffy Lube involved. Where can we have it? Sac State? UC Davis? UOP? Stockton Arena? Memorial Auditorium? Who do we get? (commence everyone @-ing every NBA player) Demarcus, JT and John Wall immediately say yes…. In otherwords, BOOM goes Twitter.

In about 2 hours.

I said I’d help out. Kevin Fippin and Ed Montes and and and all the HereWeStay/HereWeBuild people are in and happy to help….

Dave tweets that he was able to get over a major hurdle, let’s get this thing on. Donte is going to be on his show the next day (today)….. It’s a runaway train.

But it’s ON!

Donte calls in (he’s back home doing the Dad Thing right now) and says he’ll be back in town to promote it and he’d like to start selling tickets on Nov. 1.

I love social media and the power it gives people!  So, whether or not you like basketball I don’t care, lets #MakeItHappen!

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In praise of another Steinman

Posted on October 3, 2011 by Josh Morgan

This past weekend, one of my daughters and I participated in the Sacramento Archives Crawl where we learned more about her great, great, great grandfather, B.U. Steinman who was an early businessman in Sacramento and served as mayor in the 1890s.

Image from NY Times

Today, another Steinman, Dr. Ralph Steinman, I don’t think we’re related to him, was awarded the Nobel Prize for his work with dendritic cells that he believed were instrumental in helping white bood cells attack infection.  This was leading to advances in therapy for those with cancer, including Dr. Steinman, who lost his fight with cancer on Friday. 

I heard his son interviewed on NPR this evening on my way home, and he talked about the extra years that his father had, because of therapies created as a result of his lifetime work.  When asked if this was a surreal experience, his son said,”We spent the weekend grieving his loss. And now, we are able to celebrate his life and these amazing accomplishments and this great honor. But surreal is a good word.”

Grieving, then celebration. I like that.  Thank you Dr. Steinman.

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The Circle of Life..Never Burn Bridges..

Posted on September 20, 2011 by Josh Morgan

Insert your own cliche’, but the main point is that I’m back at Edelman.  Morgan/Dorado was an incredible five year ride of entrepreneurship, adventure and creating something new.  I’ll always be an entrepreneur and now I’m part of the most innovative division at the world’s leading PR firm.

Thank you to everyone who was supportive of us during the last five years, I hope to keep working with you all over the next 20.

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Get busy living or get busy dying

Posted on September 13, 2011 by Josh Morgan

The advice above was from The Shawshank Redemption but it can also be applied to business.

I’ve been playing Scramble by Zynga on Facebook just about since it launched so imagine my surprise when I saw this:

You think I’m kidding about playing a lot of Scramble?

Please note that I lose alot. I don’t know if there are extenuating circumstances regarding why Scramble (ahem Scrabble..cough) is being killed, but Zynga has recently moved Words With Friends over to FB an integrated it closely with their mobile version.  Whether forced or not, Zynga is moving forward and remember when faced with a big choice, get busy living or get busy dying.

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What I learned, what I think about and what I hope to never have to do

Posted on September 10, 2011 by Josh Morgan

Tonight my wife and I had dinner with two other couples.  The husband of one of the couples is a pilot for a major airline, and the wife is a flight attendant.  Given the date, the discussion turned to September 11 and our various thoughts and some of our memories. I didn’t ask them too much about that day as I figured they would share what they wanted to.  As it turns out, one of them was on layover and sleeping in a foreign city when everything happened that day ten years ago. So I don’t have inside information about that day. What I do have in what I learned.

I first wrote about this in 2007 when I said “on this day I miss a friend and mentor.”

In 2009 I first wrote about what I learned from that day when I said. “do something.” In the spring of 2001, my wife and I were at a wedding in Idaho.  It was a fully choreographed weekend-long event, this happens when one of the people getting married works in event planning.  On the way to one of the events, I was on a bus next to a man and we were talking and he had been on a plane that was highjacked in the Middle East in the late 70′s.  They were hostages on a runway for about 20 hours and he talked about how they were told to just sit tight and everything would work out.  At the time the thinking was that most highjackings were about getting somewhere or getting paid a ransom.  This all changed in 2001.

So, please remember those that died on September 11, 2001, think about how the world has changed and if something terrible happens, think about what you would do.

 

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