About

Why Begin the Begin? Good question.  First, I’m a huge R.E.M. fan and Begin the Begin is one of my favorite songs of theirs (along with I Believe).  Both are on the amazing CD Lifes Rich Pageant.  Buy that immediately and thank me later.

What I like about the phrase is that to me its a call to action.  It applies to startups and entrepreneurs.  It applies to marketers.  It applies to anyone that believes they can be something better but is hesitant to take that next step.  Begin the begin, people.

Me and Guy Kawasaki at SxSW

Who am I? I’m someone that’s fascinated with entrepreneurship, startups, technology, the Internet and specifically social networking & media.  I had been Tweeting, blogging, Google Reader’ing, del.icio.us’ing, Friend Feeding, etc., and figured I should aggregate all of that content in one place.  Hence, this blog.

For my entire story, you can check out this post.  Oh and there’s a bio on my wikipedia page as well.

I’m currently the Chief Digital Officer of Engauge and I run the Digital Innovation Group.  In 1998 I started a digital agency in Atlanta (Spunlogic) with some friends and we were acquired by Engauge in March of 2008.

I’m also a member of the Shotput Ventures Team, a technology accelerator in Atlanta.  If you want to know more about what we’re doing at Shotput, you can listen to an interview I did with Gravity Free Radio.  Or you can download my portion here (right click and download) or just listen to the audio below – the player can be a little wonky, you might have to click it a few times ;)…

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I’m also on the boards of Junior Achievement of Georgia and The Children’s Museum of Atlanta (Imagine IT), two AMAZING organizations.

Best,

Jeff