Is this thing still on? Wow. It really has been a while.

In case you missed the last post (which is directly below this one), I had previously mothballed this blog, which used to be known as A New Marketing, because I wanted to take some time off and refocus my efforts.

Fast forward four awesome months later…We’re getting the band (err blog) back together!

I haven’t been completely off the grid the last four months, I’ve been keeping my digital thoughts/inspirations on my tumblr, The New Necessary. I’ll continue to post things there, so feel free to check it out via the link to the left. I’ve also been down with “the twitter” and you can always find me there.

I’ve spend the past four months doing a lot of reading, watching, and listening. There really is some truth in the idea that you can’t talk and listen at the same time, and I think I’ve picked up a lot more recently while I’ve been focusing on absorbing things. I’ve found a bunch of great new people and blogs, and also adjusted who I follow on Twitter to create a much better experience.

However, I think I’ve got some new things to say, so let’s get this thing going again.

Matt J McD via the Internet

The new title here represents what this blog really is all about. I’m not limiting myself to social media or even marketing in general, but anything I find interesting and think is worth sharing. We’re all multi-faceted people, no sense in unnecessarily confining our ideas.

You can look forward to posts on a range of topics including: digital strategy, technology, gaming, sports, design, style, psychology, social media, market dynamics, etc.

Also, I’ve got a few new projects in super-early stages. You can check these out by hitting the “My Projects” link on the left.

I’d like to introduce one of those projects now, without further adieu…

Discere Centum Project

Literally meaning “To learn one hundred” in Latin, the Discere Centum Project is my mission to expand my horizons by learning 100 new things.

I’m not talking about things like “What is the square root of 467?” but rather legit knowledge and skills like “An understanding of major cognitive biases”, “What are the characteristics of the different kinds of wine?” or “How to shave with a safety razor”.

(the answer is 21.6 btw)

TDCP posts will pop up sporadically as I come up with new stuff and figure it out.

Onward!

So I guess the moral of the story here is: Thanks for sticking around.

I’m going to do my best to get back to putting some kick-ass stuff together. As always, please get in touch early and often.

Now back to our newly schedule programming…