I’m on record with several groups of people on what I think the next big thing in social media will be, and in my opinion the next “big” thing will be small. I think people will grow weary of vast networks of “Friends” and “Connections” that aren’t really personal friends (Facebook) nor true business connections […]
If you get passionate customer testimonials like this one, you are very good at sales and have a product that pleases some of your customers enough to be very vocal about it (be sure to read some of the posted comments!) If you take that passionate (and probably inebriated) testimonial and turn it into an intoxicatingly […]
I never heard about the U.K. magician “Dynamo” (ever) before a news headline crossed my path about how his bus levitation trick had been “exposed.” The story linked above details how the trick was executed and then exposed by another magician. The video embedded below featured the commericially released (and I do mean “commercial”) film of […]
Or perhaps I should more specifically ask, what did you do that mattered? Most of you had barbecues and picnics with friends and family — and that matters to your personal world of family and even your own mental health. A lot of you worked, either at home with improvement projects or at the office […]
I received the email below from a person who recently connected with me on Linkedin. I didn’t know this person myself, but we have several contacts in common, and this person currently does business as a vendor with a reputable company I worked with in the past — so it’s not like I randomly connected […]
Whenever I facilitate a brainstorm session for an organization, I follow a rule of having all the participants in the room scribble down every single idea they can think of within the first 5-10 minutes …and then throw them all away. There are three reasons I do this: ONE: Someone else already thought of those ideas […]
I think I heard this in a TED Talk, but I couldn’t find the exact quote anywhere so perhaps it’s something of my own that was sparked by a TED Talk. Either way, here’s the “A-Ha”… With so much existing information flying around combined with the staggering amounts of new information and content being created every […]