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I was messing around with LinkedIn the other day and ran into a utility they provide for examining your webmail addressbook for other LinkedIn members that you might not have connected with. I pointed the tool at my gmail account and found a bunch of people in my adddressbook that were LinkedIn members […]
Laurence Haughton, author of one of my favorite books, “It’s Not What You Say…It’s What You Do” and also the bestseller “It’s Not the Big That Eat the Small…It’s the Fast That Eat the Slow“, has an new (free) web seminar coming up over at Microsoft Office Live.
The seminar is on May 29th, from 9am […]
There’s this thing about reading your favorite columnists: when they write books you can be pretty confident that you’re gonna enjoy the read. This has been true for me with Thomas Friedman, Malcolm Gladwell and now with Penelope Trunk.
Penelope is a columnist with the Boston Globe (read her column here and her blog here) and […]
Just airing a personal peeve here. Many people use the word “obvious” too liberally. If it really is obvious, then there’s no need to point that out (obviously). If it isn’t obvious, then saying that it is will likely not have the effect of making you look smart, but rather have the effect of irking […]
Over at new b5 blog, LinkedIntelligence, Scott Allen is hosting a group blogging project about LinkedIn. The idea is that bloggers write posts about cool, interesting and productive ways in which they’re using LinkedIn. Scott’s got some nice prizes lined up as well. (note: Scott is co-author of an excellent book about online networking which […]
Just learned that MindMeister (web-based mindmapping app) is out of beta testing and ready for everyone!
Aside from the original analog method of mindmapping (paper and pencil), this is probably the best way to ease into a good understanding of the power of mindmaps. For those of us who are a little more experienced with mindmapping, […]
I’m not much of an IM guy, but lately I’ve been kinda digging it. Twitter has helped, but I’ve been finding IM to be really handy for quick check-ins and questions that aren’t too bothersome. Also, I will admit that it can turn into a bit of a timesink if you let it.
I learned a […]
Fascinating article popped up today regarding strategic incompetence. That’s basically the idea that from time to time it may behoove you to demonstrate an inability to learn to do something. I am convinced that this behavior pops up in two specific places: one process-oriented and one position-oriented.
From a process perspective, when folks get overloaded then […]
I will freely admit to you right here, right now, that I’ve been very relaxed…inconsistent, even…about reading my pile of RSS feeds. I think I have too many of them and I get frightened when I fire up Google Reader and see “100+” next to every category folder. Ugh. So the result is that I […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
This is a totally bifurcated post. Part one describes a few recent distractions. Part two is a call for help.
Part one:
I’ve been messing with new toys. Twitter, for one (this is me). You can post from IM, or TXT or via the web. Also, I’m kind of eyeballing Jaiku but haven’t set up an account. […]
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