NowSourcing has been featured as the first ever special guest for a weekly podcast called Social Blend. The show features some of the best names in Mixxers, featuring Greg Davies (cGt2099 from The-TrukstoP.com), Joe Fowler (SilentJay74 from JuicySnake.Blogspot.com), and Brian Hill (Bdog2g2 from MixxingBowl.com) have come out with their second ever episode. Topics included social media, New Year’s on the Internet, and the Iowa Caucuses. Have a listen and let me know what you think - this show was a lot of fun to do, and hope to be on again in the future.

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Ok, this is a true story that happened to me 2 days ago. I was in a bank parking lot and saw a random guy wearing a Digg hoodie. Soon after, I found myself walking over to him, thinking I’d start talking about about digg, but then I thought …wtf am i doing? I don’t even know this guy (he didn’t appear to be Muhammad Saleem or any other notable diggers, but you never know)!

He was talking to a friend and I was kind of standing around and then he went into his car so I left. This was such a weird feeling. Would you go up to a random stranger on the street? What do you say - “hey nice Digg Hoodie?” “what’s your username?”

Sometimes it is hard to make social media offline translate into a meaningful experience. Naturally a coordinated even like SMX will bring things together, but random encounters walking up to people might give people the wrong idea about you…