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At eROI, we’ve launched some exciting new blogs in the past couple months, and the content is unbelievably good. It’s so good, it may even rival the eROI Days blog.  If you haven’t had a chance to check them out, now is your chance.  Fresh is a blog from our creatives that is both design-oriented as well as great insights into web technologies.  eROI NYC has an urban, high-energy feel to it with loads of unique video straight from the New York underground. Then, there are the tried and true old-timer blogs with eROI Days, The Email Wars, and Return on Subscriber.

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Last week was a real rollercoaster. Projects that should have signed off the week before, then Mon, then Tues, then Wed, finally signed off on Thurs and Friday – phew.  We’re on a roll now at eROI and this week is going to be all about optimism. We’re going to jam away on all the work we have in the door and create some new opportunities as well.  It’s only a 3 day week, but a good 3 days.

Optimism runs deep
Behold, we’re launching a
New site – it’s awesome

Let the haikus flourish like Jack Black in KungFu Panda.

I regularly give speeches on the importance of blogging.  It is one of the core pieces of our grassroots marketing effort, personalizes our brand, engages a 2-way dialogue, helps search engine optimization of all eROI sites and blogs, seeds some press that we get, and indirectly generates some leads through all of this.

That being said, there are weeks like the past one where it is really challenging to make blogging a priority as a CEO. Over the past 2 months, I’ve gotten a lot more engaged in the company and am actually working a bit harder (60 hour weeks vs. 50 hours before).  My focus has shifted more towards Sales, Speaking Engagements, and Product Development (and I’ve kept the same high level of commitment towards interacting w/ employees).

I am not making excuses (actually, that’s exactly what I’m doing), but that’s why I haven’t blogged in 8 days. My biggest reflection of this poor blogging discipline is that I missed Haiku Monday (by 5 hours at is now 5am on Tuesday). After a brief, private flogging, I now forgive myself for this major faux-pas.  Let the haikus roll like water in a rocky stream:

I had my daughters
To myself this weekend and
We laughed and danced.

Tom Szaky lit
Up the stage at eROI – telling
Huge successes of Worm Poop

Yesterday, many of you did not submit your haiku on this blog.  While, I am deeply upset about this, I realized that I didn’t give you a lot of outside inspiration.  I think the Internet was built for the sole purpose of searching for, reading, and submitting a haiku for the greater good of all of us to enjoy them.

Here are a few sites to check out:
http://www.haiku.com/
http://www.ahapoetry.com/haiku.htm
http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/92q4/elechaiku.html
http://www.yuckles.com/bellyup.htm

Here are some haikus from David Joslin on U.S. politics:

What sound do I hear,
From the nation’s capitol?
Oh! Paper shredders!

Deer in the headlights
With a grin from ear to ear –
Have they told him yet?

Draft dodger, pot head,
Womanizer and waffler.
Still better than Bush.

I’m a huge fan of a quintessential Oregon entity called Live Wire! Radio – a mix of edgy humor, music, and Garrison Keillor-style story-telling and political humor. My wife and I went to the show w/ other folks from eROI and one distinct thing that they do at every show is the Audience Haiku.  Let me preface this blog post by saying that I am clearly no poet, haiku expert.  In fact, they may be so bad, that they are laughable.  But, it’s Monday morning and I want to have you, my loyal blog readers, participate a little more and inspire me with some of your haikus.  Here are only two ground rules – 1. it’s got to be as close as possible to 5 syllables, 7 syllables, 5 syllables; 2. theme can be edgy, vulgar, random, whatever, but NO excessive swearing please.  Let the absurd poetry of haiku begin.

dark in the morning
cold as hell on my red bike
I am refreshed

Anticipation
of Halloween begins and
finance market scares

Yellow leaves cascade
slick as banana peels squish
under Nike Air

Now, it’s your turn.  Comment with your haiku – you could win a free eROI collectible gift of a robot named KillROI – the famous hero in www.KillSpammer.com!