Category: Business

My friend and Podcamp instigator Chris Brogan nails the culture of the business today in this insightful bit about freeing your inner superhero. On the balance of being you versus being that person inside a company, he says: The point here is simple: YOU have control of your own personal brand, and it’s up to…

On May 1st, after I had a conversation with Chris Heuer, he wrote “Conversations take time, managing them takes energy.” This is true in so many ways. In fact, Chris captured this critical fact: “… we have had to expend so much energy in managing the Club to host conversations about Social Media, that we…

I saw the announcement from the CES show about the new Windows Home Server. This is an interesteing concept for me so I went to Microsoft.com to look for more info. Great big picture of BillG from his keynote. No link to the product. So, if Bill Gates, your boss, is going to announce products,…

I had the displeasure of visiting Prestige Toyota of Ramsey, NJ yesterday with the family. We were looking at the Rav4 since it has an extra row (making it possible for us Soccer Moms/Dads to take a few extras when we go to events for the kids. However, the sales guy Harry was really, really…

The unstoppable Nancy Shenker* has laid down a holiday challenge: She will donate to charity $1 for each visitor to her blog, $2 for each person who subscribes to her blog feed. So fire up your RSS reader, (or use the subscription capabilities built into Firefox or Internet Explorer 7.0) and empty her wallet. It’s…