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One week in, Mobile Edge’s very first Kickstarter campaign to support production of its full-featured CORE Gaming Backpack is more than 20% funded toward its 45-day, $30,000 goal. Clearly, gamers know a good thing when they see it. The CORE Gaming Backpack from Mobile Edge is the real deal, and so is your opportunity to…

You’ve heard of crowdsourcing—using the Internet to amass support in the form of funding or information (hence the “crowd” part of the word). Now, with Thunderclap, you can engage in crowdspeaking—using the Internet to mass-share a single message or event by social media, flash mob-style. Thunderclap for #COREKickstarter The Barrel O’Monkeyz team has set up…

BREAKING NEWS—Mobile Edge today announced a Kickstarter campaign to support production of the CORE Gaming Backpack, the first in its new lineup of gaming products. The CORE Gaming Backpack was designed, prototyped, and tested by gamers for gamers to provide easy access, storage, and protection for an ever-expanding universe of gaming equipment including laptop models,…

Every now and then, I like to showcase some of the great work the Barrel O’Monkeyz team is doing for our clients. This happens to be one of those times—plus it represents an opportunity for you, my faithful Monkeyz blog readers, to get in on the ground floor of something I happen to think is…

There’s a common saying that timing is everything. I tend to agree. After all, who am I to argue with a sage pop philosopher like Alanis Morissette who wrote about the irony of bad timing in her iconic hit “Ironic” in 1995. In it, she sings that “an old man turned ninety-eight. He won the…

In “Social Media: It’s Time to Get Out There and Engage (Here’s How…),” Paul June, aka the King Monkey, dispenses sage advice to readers of the 25th Anniversary issue of IN Hollywood Magazine, the Los Angeles magazine of entertainment, fashion, people, and lifestyles. Paul joins a select list of authors, thought leaders, business professionals, and…

This week was time for the annual MLB All Star Game—a time for the American League and National League to showcase their best talent. Watching the game got me to wondering why companies—rank and file businesses—don’t field their own all-star teams. Call me a crazy monkey, but a business team’s contributions to its organization’s bottom…

Happy Fourth of July, everyone! By now you’ve probably got plans for the weekend—maybe the beach, a cook out, a hike in the mountains, or some kind of get-together with family and friends before you top it all off with a fireworks extravaganza. Also by now, you and your employees are probably thinking more about…

We entrepreneurs like to think we can do it all. It’s what drives us. It’s what makes us successful in the first place. It’s what makes us think we can do more and have more . . . always. I’m sure you’ve heard the well-known story of the professor and his seemingly “full” jar that…

Father’s Day is fast approaching. It’s Sunday, June 18, for those of you who need a reminder. My daughters are growing like weeds. They amaze me every day with their words, their actions, the sibling rivalry and sibling bonds that are developing even at their young ages, and of course their affection for dear old…

Memorial Day is in the rear-view mirror, which means summer weather is about to hit and vacation “season” soon will be in full swing, including for yours truly and the Monkeyz staff. It’s an annual rite that’s good for the body, mind, and spirit—and good for recharging the batteries so you’re in tip-top fighting shape…

Looking back through the Monkeyz archives, I was shocked to see that I’ve never written a Memorial Day blog—shocked because Memorial Day aligns with a couple of my favorite of life’s tenets: “gratitude” and “fortitude.” Gratitude for those around us each and every day in both our personal and professional lives, from our spouses, children,…