How much money will it take to support a campaign, a certain number of insertions, points for TV schedule? Oh its a small budget? Oh what a pity, we won’t be able to do very much. Sigh.

But maybe if we were just a little scrappy and a bit more accepting of small budgets it would allow us to me a more creative. My four years at UConn certainly showed me that silver spoon kids are the least motivated, perhaps the same is true for us agency folks….Or maybe I just want a reason to include a line item for Panda costumes in my next media plan.

I need some help.

1. The Foundation by Kevin Rose

All about entrepreneurs and how they have built successful companies. Its a peak inside the mindset of innovators and they drive they have to make stuff happen.

2. Keith Stoeckeler’s blog and twitter hashtag #allthatinspiresme

http://allthatinspires.me

I love seeing other people’s inspiration points because inspiration is everywhere, its just a matter of looking at things in a different way. Check out my guest post http://allthatinspires.me/guest-post-erin-norton

3. Edit: just realized I had left #3 blank. Ha maybe due to my lack of inspiration.

BMW ad drives to http://www.bmw-i-usa.com/en_us/

Ford drives to http://mashable.com/explore/

1. Like.fm http://like.fm - ”Like.fm takes all of your music and makes it social. We track everything you listen to and make it extremely easy to share with and discover from people.” They’ve actually been around for a few months. There are so few quality music sharing sites – love to see this improved and explored (try: thesixtyone.com, blip.fm, grooveshark.com).

2. Five Stars http://www.fivestarscard.com – “A universal loyalty card for retail businesses. The card is the first link between cash registers, customers’ email and Facebook accounts.” I see huge potential in this, FB has a ton of user data and being able to tie it to your offline spending would be a magical and beautiful thing for CPGs and retailers. Lots of privacy issues and concerns to overcome, but love this.

3. MinoMonsters http://minomonsters.com/ – “MinoMonsters is a social game where you collect and battle pet monsters on Facebook, the Web and the iPhone. We are Pokemon for 2011.” Ok, so this idea is probably crap, I just love them because they refer to themselves as Pokemon for 2011.

4.Lanyrd http://lanyrd.com – “IMDB of conferences.” If they can build and sell to LinkedIn, they’ll make oodles of money. As an independent or bought out, huge advertsing potential for the BtoB space and would be incredibly helpful for finding quality conferences.

5. Taskforce http://taskforceapp.com – “Makes your inbox work as the to-do list you’re using it for.”

If you don’t know who/what Y-Combinator is, read about them here http://ycombinator.com/about.html. Check out an official list of graduates and you’ll see http://yclist.com/ at least a few you’ll recognize like our blog platform posterous.

I want to love the interactive and engaging banners they created…but the game is just too hard. I spent 5 minutes+ trying to figure this thing out. I didn’t know that the hamster thing was supposed to do…

When does a long in-banner engagement pay off for a brand?

1. Path

The anti-social network. social network Share “moments” with only 50 of your closet friends. Limited user base but big investment and amazing founders.

2. StickyBits

First we checked into places. Then we checked into places with friends. Now you can check into products. F’ing Brilliant.

3. Spotify

Apple blows. I want my spotify. The next revolution in digital music.

4. OMGPOP

Take Zynga out of facebook and you get omgpop. Kevin Rose is an angel. They’ve perfected how to serve video completions and quality maintain user experience. With video on the rise, social gaming a legit addition, and a great collection of fun games, this site is sure to make some significant money.

5. Hipster

What the fuck the do. I have no I idea. But rumor has it Groupon tried to buy them out BEFORE THEY EVEN LAUNCHED for $10 million.

These are my 2011 resolutions. I’m not normally one to actually make resolutions but I’ve been inspired  I have 5 for work and 5 for my personal life.

Work

1. Learn more about Venture Capitalism –> how it works, key players, trends, etc

2. Be better at Powerpoint –>they are just not up to par with my excel skills

3. Be more creative –> hey us media folk can be creative too!

4. Decrease my use of “totally” at the office –> but like seriously, I need to stop

5. Get to know the creatives –> some of my favorites from my previous agencies are my friends from the creative team, need to get upstairs more often and make friends

Personal

1. Take a tour of a farm in Petaluma –> will either keep me a full vegetarian or give me a place to find healthy, properly raised and slaughtered meat to add back into my diet

2. Be more adventuresome in the city  –> new places out, new neighborhoods and new people

3.  Find a workout/activity that keeps my interested and gets me back in shape –> I loved gravity pilates in San Diego, but it doesn’t exist in San Francisco. TRX? boot camps? hiking? rock climbing?

4.  Test my addiction limits –> give up each of the following for one month: coffee, alcohol, shopping, weekend computer use….hmm anything else I’m addicted to?

5. Call my friends more often –>I’m awful at calling/keeping in touch with my east coast college friend, more phone calls are needed!

Check out the Tim Allen Collection after the jump

Michigan Tourism

Campbell’s Soup

Chevrolet

Marie Callendar’s Pot Pies

I’ve been a fairly loyal AT&T customer. Actually, I was a Cingular customer who was forced into AT&T. Service was awesome at UCONN, not so bad in San Diego and is non existent at the office in San Francisco but I’ve stuck with it…maybe pure laziness or possibly due to not wanting to pay to switch carriers.

I’ve always said if the iPhone went to Verizon I’d finally jump ship and become one of the masses of iPhone-Verizon enthusiasts but this spot has me rethinking that. Anyone out there in San Francisco a T-Mobile customer?

Great spot. Definitely works for me, partly because I love her dress and most definitely because I don’t understand the difference between AT&T 3G and Verizon 3G.

Oh Facebook how you’ve grown so much, but your ads are still awful.