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Connected Dots in My Opportunity Network
Today, Im in Orange County, California, at a small, focused workshop on the use of social media in business. Theres a story behind this, which has everything to do with encouraging you to create your own opportunity network. Heres the tale At some point in the distant past (maybe 1.5-2 years ago? do …
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Are You a Kool-Aid Drinker?
I am. Let me explain. We tend to talk about true believers as those who have drunk the Kool-Aid, with the obvious tie-in to Jim Jones and his followers. Its an apt analogy, however unfortunate the original incident one who has drunk the Kool-Aid actually, in this sense, is so convinced of something …
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Shaking Things Up
<rant> Over the years, Ive attended many, many conferences some awful, some forgettable, and a few outstanding. Im getting impatient. Im impatient with thinly-veiled sales pitches from sponsoring companies during sessions. If youre going to have sponsoring companies, set aside a specific tim …
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When Statistics Have Faces
Ive had my heart stirred in very unexpected ways this week. Im used to having my mind moved I often gravitate toward ideas, facts, and numbers. But sometimes youre confronted with human faces, and the statistics fade into obscurity, where they often belong. As with many others in the social media c …
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Hitting the Pinnacle of Buzzwords
I freely confess to hating business buzzwords and jargon. Like David Meerman Scott and many others, I find the practice of repeating technical-sounding phrases in an effort to appear knowledgeable to be pompous and counter-productive. Its an over-leveraging of verbal resources. Yes, I went there. No …
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Small Talk
Many people who dont actually get Twitter find it easy to dismiss it as a bunch of not-very-social people exchanging useless trivia with fellow avatars. We know better, of course. But the fact is, that we DO often share a lot of stuff that is, in itself, seemingly trivial. And heres why I LIKE that: …
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Hiring for Virtue
This morning, I had the privilege of attending the Trust Summit breakfast meeting, featuring Chris Brogan (@chrisbrogan), Julien Smith (@julien), David Maister (davidmaister.com), and Charlie Green (@charleshgreen). The panel was very engaging, and it was refreshing to hear people of substance and e …
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Pfizer unveils new logo!
I havent seen any formal announcement, but if you go to the Pfizer home page or look at this news release, you can see that (apparently) Pfizer has updated their company logo. The weighting on the letters is more even, the color is lighter many of the old logo elements are the same, but there appe …
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Time. Talent. And Magic.
After 10 years in one job (sales and marketing in medical devices), and 10 years in another (sales/marketing/biz dev/consulting with a software provider for pharma), I ventured out on my own. That was over three years ago; Chris Brogan hadnt yet co-written Trust Agents, but in fact, the business mod …
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Are you “In”?
A few random thoughts that came to mind this morning, while meandering about the yard looking for pictures to take If youre building a network via social media, here are some in questions to ask yourself: Am I being informative? Am I being insightful? Am I instigating new ideas? Am I inspiring othe …
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Backing up to the Cloud
Like most people who do a lot of work on computer, Im not ENTIRELY smart or consistent about doing backups. Fortunately, I havent had any hard-core disk crashes of late, but the idea of cloud-based backup (with something like Mozy or Carbonite) appeals to me because the process is automated, and the …
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David Armano Wins Nobel Prize for “Really Cool Drawings”
(why not celebrate our third birthday with a fresh social media spoof?) Today, it was announced that globally-recognized artist and hat-wearing aficionado David Armano has been awarded a Nobel Prize for his work in creating some of the coolest graphics on the planet. According to Hans Blimsted, Swed …
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StickyFigure wins Nobel Blog Prize for 3 Years of Brilliance!
Today marks the third birthday of the StickyFigure blog. Hard to believe that first post (on UPS trucks How to Waste 100,000 Billboards) was 1,095 days and 598 posts ago. Two weeks after the blog began, it was nominated for a Nobel Blog Prize, and now, 3 years later, the ultimate honor has come to …
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Telling the Company Story
Im going to tell you a story about a company telling its story. Call it storytelling squared! This spring, while attending the MarketingProfs B2B Forum, I had the good fortune of sitting next to a pleasant young lady with whom I quickly found two things in common: 1) she was working at a company in …
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Up and Down
What happens when a former hiker takes on some peaks in the White Mountains. The Old Man and the Mountain, on Steves Leaves.
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Twitter is a Big, Fat Waste of Time…
if you dont have a purpose for using it. That was how I summarized it for some folks last week who were repeating the usual drivel (endlessly parroted by non-users) about the uselessness of Twitter. I think it kinda helped to agree with them. Yes, if all youre doing is posting mindless updates and r …
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Google’s Sidewiki and Pharma – Uh Oh.
Take a look at the screen shot below, from Pfizers homepage. Believe it or not, I, or anyone else, can now leave comments on any website (such as Pfizer.com) using a new tool (currently in beta) from Google, called Sidewiki. Game-changer? You bet. While the use of Googles Sidewiki has ramifications …
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“So, Can Your iPhone…?”
Yes, I guess it can. I was at a conference last week, and someone who is trying to justify, in his own mind, the purchase of an iPhone (go for it, John!) asked me if my iPhone was capable of storing video of an entire presentation. I didnt know the answer. So, it was time for an experiment. Could my …
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Crop Circles
Everyone wants impressive, attention-getting ads something to rivet eyeballs and cut through the clutter of sensory overload. Just be careful theres more to it than just making a striking impression of some sort. Crop circles get peoples attention. But when they come across them, heres what theyre …
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Weather Channel Classic Launched!
The Weather Channel, after listening to years of strident input from viewers everywhere, has launched a new channel WCC (Weather Channel Classic) where every description of the weather is 100% accurate. WCC provides day-old forecasts called backcasts to show you, with unerring precision, what the …
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