Slacker Manager

March 26th, 2007

Way over the line

I’m on vacation and not really keeping up with things, but Ron at BrandCurve sent a note around about Kathy Sierra getting some very uncool comments on her blog. There has always been a segment of blog culture that thrilled on being edgy and controversial. Sometimes for the links, sometime because they really believe what […]

By Bren -- 3 comments

March 25th, 2007

Grab bag ‘o tips

Here’s just a total brain dump of various “do it easier/faster” tips that I’ve collected recently:

Check movie listings on Google by typing: movies: your-movie-name. If Google already knows where you are, the first clickable result will be all your local listings. If Google doesn’t know where you are, you’ll get a place to input your […]

By Bren -- 1 comment

March 20th, 2007

Greaseless networking (or how to build your business network without being a chump)

I’ve been intrigued by the idea of networking for a long time. But it’s always been a kind of voyeuristic activity for me since my natural inclination is to get a good book and go curl up in a cave somewhere. I’m the farthest thing imaginable from a natural networker. But the deal is […]

By Bren -- 10 comments

March 19th, 2007

The best of Slacker Manager

Just a quick little note (mainly to the folks who read via RSS) that you can find all the most popular post on Slacker Manager over here at the Best Of list. It’s a list of all the post that’ve proven to be relatively popular, either by number of comments, or by incoming links. There’s […]

By Bren -- 0 comments

March 17th, 2007

Hiring and firing, fast and slow

I’m generally a proponent of the “hire slow, fire fast” school of thought. It can be extremely painful to hire slow, but typically not quite as painful as the destruction a bad hire can wreak on a company or team. I recently read Dick Costolo’s (of Feedburner) post on hiring fast vs. slow and I […]

By Bren -- 13 comments

March 12th, 2007

Yes, no, yes

Just heard William Ury, co-founder of Harvard’s Program on Negotiation, on NPR this morning. He was talking about quick tips for negotiation strategies (he wrote a couple of books: Getting to Yes and Getting Past No, neither of which I’ve read yet). He seemed to be pitching a new book or methodology about how to […]

By Bren -- 7 comments

March 10th, 2007

The Several Habits of Wildly Successful Twitter Users

Twitter is a deceptively simple utility. That said, Twitter isn’t for everyone. In fact it’s probably not even for half of everyone. But for those that have the patience to find their personal sweet spot, Twitter can be quite good indeed. If you’re not familar with Twitter, it’s pretty easy to describe. It’s instant messaging […]

By Bren -- 19 comments

March 10th, 2007

Books and more books

I just wrote a book review on The Omnivore’s Dilemma over at Joyful Jubilant Learning. There are a TON of good reviews to read over there. This Shelfari page shows all the books that are getting reviewed, and this page is where you can keep track of the reviews.
There are a lot of business […]

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