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This facebook thread shows Karma in action. Lesson learned, don’t honk at tourists!

This is the first holiday season that I’ve spent in San Diego. Sure, you don’t have the snow, but you can’t beat going golfing on Christmas weekend. I haven’t written on here in a while, but will post my pictures from my fall Euro Trip.

Wishing you the best in 2010!

On August 22, my brother (Eric Hermsdorfer), Jake Fields, and Don Son were fortunate enough to hit up the Partying for a Purpose Mansion Party. This party was hosted by the Its All About the Kids Foundation. My company, BigTuna Interactive was a sponsor for the event. Not only were we able to raise a ton of money for the foundation, but we were able to mingle with a lot of random celebs as well. More pictures are available on my Facebook page.

If you ever get a chance to go to the Playboy Mansion, I highly recommend it. The grounds are absolutely beautiful and the scenery there isn’t too bad as well . A lot of speculation is going around about Hef’s health. Although he only came out for a half hour, he looked good to me. What a guy!

It’s beach season again in San Diego. If you don’t want to look like a tourist, let me give you one piece of valuable information: DON’T WEAR FLIP FLOPS ON THE BEACH.

Wearing flip flops on the beach is the leading cause of crunchy gum and sand in your eyes. The sand in San Diego doesn’t get hot, so take the flip flops off.

I’m a proud member of the San Diego Zoological Society.  They have one of the two best zoo’s that I’ve been to.  Actually, I’ve only been there and the Cleveland Zoo when I was a kid.  I did deliver meat to the Cleveland Zoo for my Uncle’s company, Mahan Packing, but that’s another story.

The San Diego zoo puts out a weekly eNews letter.  It’s well constructed and one of my favorite eNews letters.  They recently began twittering.  While I just started to follow them on twitter and can’t decipher their twitter strategy, they had a blunder promoting twitter in their eNews.

This blurb was in the San Diego Zoo's eNews last week

To elaborate on their twitter blunders:

1. The “follow us on Twitter” link goes to the twitter home page, not the Zoo’s twitter homepage.
2. Do you want people to join twitter or follow you on twitter?  There’s a difference between the two questions.

If the eNews subscribers are already on twitter, their calls to action should have been to instruct a #hashtag (#sandiegozoo) for all of their zoo comments.  Besides the eNews, The zoo’s tweets do seem relevant and provide value. Twitter is a great social media platform for them to be on.

After the first month of being an entrepreneur and running San Diego Online Marketing Agency, BigTuna Interactive, I have started setting up my portable office (MacBook Pro, BlackBerry Storm, shades and yours truly) at coffee shops around town.  Below is a review of the locations that I’ve hit up so far.

• Cafe 976, Pacific Beach. I love this spot. Free wireless, good drinks and excellent food.
• Courtyard Marriot, Mission Valley. Obviously not a coffee shop, but they have a kick ass lounge on the bottom level. This is a great spot to have a business meeting in San Diego.  Free wireless.
• Starbucks, 5th and F. Two levels in a really cool building.  Internet is $3.95 for 2 hours, which is a total rip off.

Alright, so I have only been to 3 spots so far.  Keep in mind that I’m not a coffee drinker!  Future spots include Zanzibar in PB, plus locations in La Jolla.  Will report on them in the future!

Last night I checked out Bubs in my stomping grounds of Pacific Beach. They purchased the building next to theirs, knocked out a wall and made it a lot wider. Some of my friends are not fond of the expansion. Their complaint is that it takes away from Bub’s small dive bar atmosphere.

I personally like Bubs better now. It has just the right amount of space now. Ad 2 San Diego is letting our membership decide on January’s happy hour venue.  Bubs will definitely be on the card!

It’s Santa Pub Crawl time of year again! The 2008 San Diego Santa Pub Crawl is going to be on December 6, in East Village. My friend, Allison Farinas has put on the pub crawl for the past 3 years now. Everyone is encouraged to bring either a $20 toy or $20 donation.

Last year, I showed up wearing my finest ugly sweater. You can rest assured that I’ll be wearing another incredible ugly sweater this year.

The Motivent inspirational product was recently introduced to market. This promotional product was developed by local San Diego company Diggimac. The Motivent is a unique casing (frame) that can hold either a picture, or piece of paper. That paper can house an inspirational saying, company logo, or whatever you choose.

The Motivent has a unique locking mechanism which allows it to be clipped to your ride’s dash vent. Hence the name, moti-VENT.  I think this product will be a hit with religious groups and youth sports teams. You can purchase the Motivent online at the official Motivent Store. It retails for $9.50 a unit.