Mitch Joel from Six Pixels – Twist Image has a weekly podcast which is at the top of my regular listening list as well as a blog which I read regularly. Last week he posted a challenge to write a post about the best social media practice and I am taking him up on...
Read more →I used to find pennies on the floor all over the place and pick them. Lately, I’ve been finding nickels. Did the nickel replace the penny? It’s gotten to the point that stores aren’t even accepting pennies anymore. Office Max decided to take advantage of the situation by promoting their “penny sales” where you...
Read more →About 8 years ago I spent a summer traveling with a camp around the west coast of the United States. Throughout our travels, we would stop off at rest areas to fill up with gas and junk food. The most popular stops were always the ones with a Starbucks inside. Everybody was crazy about...
Read more →Did you know that… One weekday issue of the New York Times has more information in it than an educated man in the 17th century would amass in a lifetime? Every minute, ten hours of video is uploaded to YouTube? That is 600 hours uploaded every hour of the day. That translates to 14400...
Read more →I love my IPod. I have Itunes set up to download Podcasts every day and I sync them while I am at the office. I do most of my listening and watching while commuting while I am nowhere near a computer. Yesterday I was watching a podcast from Andrew Lock of “Help! My Business...
Read more →I was listening to a podcast this past week on Duct Tape Marketing where Charlene Li, a senior analyst with Forrester, stated what should be obvious but for some reason most companies just don’t see it. She said that Marketers are taught to develop a message and just pound it out to their customers...
Read more →Picture is from http://www.flickr.com/photos/ms_abitibi/1462557669/ Sociologists estimate that the average person knows 300 people by name. Thinking about this, I probably know a whole lot more than that factoring in the different schools and camps I went to over the years, the communities I lived in, the activities I participated in and the people...
Read more →There are two different thoughts on building up social and professional networks. One is to invite and accept anybody and everybody and the other is only to accept friends and people you actually speak to. I use both of these with my social networking as well as a third. For certain networks such as...
Read more →This is my fourth post in my series of 10 on how to increase your luck and create Luckortunity. I just heard something that blew my mind away. I heard that technology was doubling every 18 months and the internet was doubling in size even faster. I knew that we were in the information...
Read more →This is the third post in my series of 10 on how to increase your luck and create Luckortunity. For those of you that don’t know what StumbleUpon is, it is a social bookmarking network where people can surf the internet and mark off all the sites that they like. Other people will be...
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