Kris Colvin

Grooveshark Playlist: Dave Aude Rules the Remix

Today is World Nutella Day!

Do you smell something in the air that resembles dark chocolate and hazelnuts??? That’s because February 5th is officially World Nutella Day! Woohoo!

Visit http://www.twitterface.com/nuts-for-nutella for real-time tweets all day today

Participate by doing something Nutella-related at http://www.nutelladay.com/participate

Host a Nutella Day Party!

Read Olivier’s “Ode to Nutella” Posts Part 1 and Part 2 (today’s)

Hang out with Facebook fans

Or go all the way……

(Image shamefully ripped from Olivier’s delightful post!)

Happy World Nutella Day, everyone! Spread some love. :-)

Chip’s Vision: the 4020 Re-Imagined

For folks who wonder why I am tweeting and talking about tractors, it’s because my partner-in-crime Lisa is working with John Deere to help promote a special contest in which Chip Foose, the legendary custom car designer, will overhaul a not-quite-vintage 4020 tractor. (They came out in the 70’s.)

Anyone who has watched Overhaulin’ knows how Chip Foose works. He sees his target, walks around it, rips it apart, re-imagines it, plays with ideas and concepts, and then sits down with his markers and crafts a dream machine. Big Buck Webisode 4 (just launched last night) offered a sneak peek at Foose and team working on a stripped down tractor, with a few pencil sketches of his early thoughts. But we have the official, approved-by-Deere rendering here – and personally I love it!! What a creative man.

Join me Tuesday for a social media chat…

Jason Breed has an excellent writeup here on what we’ll discuss in #sm42 Tuesday at Noon EST. Socializing My Business – What Comes After the Chit-Chat?

I hope you’ll tune in on Twitter and listen or participate!

Are Kettlebells Calling?

I have been curious about Kettlebells but not yet tried them myself. One issue I have is my right wrist was broken several years ago - smashed into little pieces inside really, and since I have recovered from that I’ve noticed I can’t seem to go above lifting an 8 lb. dumbbell without feeling some pain in it, like maybe I should stop what I’m doing. So though I am really interested in trying Kettlebells, I just feel a bit unsure if I can do this - it looks pretty intense but I so want to try it. Here are a number of neat videos I found, geared toward women (sorry guys) that will help describe and demonstrate this workout.

While researching this, I discovered that a woman I have long known of, because she is an actress on Guiding Light and I watched that soap when younger, is actually trained in this and has a site with DVD workout AND she’s on Twitter. (There is a clip of her in here.) That’s so cool! She looks STUNNING also. Her name is Beth Chamberlin and check out her site for more info and purchasing of DVD workouts, a digital workout and the Kettlebells. I admit it - I want the pink one! Girls FTW!

Adorable Little Musical Trinket

I found the coolest site called Mixpod that lets you create playlists filled with YouTube videos and embed them in your social profiles or websites. I could waste WAY too much time here. One can make cute, skinned music players to share with your peeps… like this:

or this… this playlist makes little sense - I went off on several tangents, but it looks like my iPod! So adorable!

There are many other neat skins and players, and a lot of them can be customized with colors (any color) and some pre-set patterns like the lovely brand you see above. Check them out!

Lest ye fear this has no practical purpose except to amuse your own self, here are some ideas for using this delectable tool for business or promotional purposes:

• Have a cooking vlog or some other educational series of videos? Package them up in one of these players and give site visitors the ability to embed them on their own sites (say, on a niche topic like Healthy Breakfasts or Holiday Desserts) for extra exposure!
• If you have a blog that covers a lot of ground, but have videos on a particular subject matter (like Olivier Blanchard does on social media ROI, for example), create a player with just those videos for an easy to watch spot on your site, and/or let others embed the playlist also for extra exposure.
• Are you in love with a famous celebrity or musician? (Or model, actress or pornstar, for you guys?) Why not whip together an ode to your favorite personage with their own playlist? Easy to watch over and over again, to boot.
• Are you Nike? Or some other giant brand with clever or inspirational commercials that people like to share for motivation, humor or simply to look cool? (Haha!) Package those puppies up in a portable playlist, Jeep! Let the people have what they want, and promote your brand for nada whilst doing it. ;-)
• Do you watch any free series of shows on YouTube? Exercise comes to mind, but sitcoms, etc. can all be put together in chronological order to make it easy to watch or share with others.
• If you have video of your kids throughout the years, assemble them into one player and watch them grow up before your very eyes!

Okay, I have to go do some VERY important and productive things. Uhh, yeah, that’s right. Work-type stuff, involving David Cook and Daughtry. :-)