Saturday, February 20th, 2010

What to do with old travel guides

Newsweek posted an informative article on what to do with old travel guides today.  After you have made the trip they probably collect dust on your bookshelf, in a box in your cellar, under your bed.  These are valuable to other people who want to travel.  Put these valuable books back into cirulation..SWAP THEM!  You would [...]

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

Swaptree Helps America Avoid Rip-Offs

Lets face it everytime you turn these days someone is trying to get you to pick up the phone, buy this crappy product, support this cause and so on.
There are many “rip offs” that exist and a whole cottage industry coming up with these scams and implementing them.
Today Time Magazine posted a list of these [...]

Monday, December 7th, 2009

“Scavengers Manifesto” Book Added To Reading List

We live in an interesting time.  Deepest recession since the Great Depression.  There are some signs of stabilization which is good.  This stabilization is the result of all the liquidity that has been pumped into the economy, not necessarily the result of an organic expansion yet.  I am cheering for expansion but it is not [...]

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

Recycle Electronic Gadgets @ Gazelle.Com

In the last month many of my friends and colleagues  have been talking about Gazelle.com, the web site that lets you sell or recycle your old electronics and gadgets.
More and more bloggers and the press are picking up on Gazelle.com as well.  Just today Fox News featured Gazelle.com. This follows similar press in The New [...]

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

Jeff Bennett Blog Top Posts-September 2009

1.  ReadWrite Lauds Oneforty
2.  Happy 90th Birthday Johnny Pesky
3.  Over 2 Billion iPhone Apps Downloaded
4.  Photo.Net Tribute To Photography
5.  Oneforty Launches Twitter App Store
6.  NameMedia Niche Sites On The Move (Again)!
7.  Small Businesses…Start Blogging
8.  Verrill Farm Grand Opening
9.  Social Media Makeover
10. Hats Off To Derek Jeter
11. Tech Stars Boston Big Night
12. New Best Friend
13. It [...]

Monday, September 7th, 2009

SwapTree Featured On DailyGrommet

Two sites that I like alot are SwapTree and DailyGrommet.  Both of these sites have been featured as “cool sites” on this blog.
Great to see both of these emerging companies working together.  DailyGrommet has featured SwapTree as it’s Grommet of the Day.

Friday, August 14th, 2009

10 Million Americans To Own Kindle

J.P. Morgan Internet Analyst Imran Khan has projected that some 10 million Americans will either own one of Amazon’s e-book readers or plan to get one within the next year according to a new report released this week.
I am a big fan of my Kindle and have posted often about this on this blog.  Although I [...]

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

Jeff Bennett Blog – Top July 2009 Posts

1. Runkeeper Top Ten iPhone App
2. Attended TEDxBoston
3. “Marketing 2.0″ Added To Jeff Bennett Blog Reading List
4. Power of Nature
5. Boston New “Hub of Marketing”
6. NameMedia Niche Media Sites On The Move
7. SwapTree Featured In Time Magazine Cheapskate Blog
8. RunKeeper iPhone Outruns Nike+
9. These Folks Need HubSpot
10. [...]

Saturday, May 30th, 2009

New England Innovation Month

We have alot of innovation happening in New England.  It is great to celebrate all of this and bring awareness with “New England Innovation Month” in June.  You can check out the line up of events across the region at the  New England Innovation web site.
I was honored to participate in the MITX Awards as [...]

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

Jeff Bennett Blog Top March 2009 Posts

Top Posts for March 2009 on Jeff Bennett.Org:
1. “Connect: Marketing In Social Web Era” Is Published
2.  JeffBennett.Org In Boston Globe On iPhone and Kindle Combination
3.  Nantucket Conference Agenda Set
4.  Apple iPhone More Than Game Now
5. Curt Shilling Social Media Man Retires
6.  JeffBennett.Org Adds “Marketing To Social Web, Second Edition” to Recommended Reading
7.  Evolution of [...]