If You Remove the Social from Social Media Tools …Hammersmith or Nail Banger?
This weekend on Twitter, I passed along Beth Harte and Geoff Livingston’s fabulous post, Top 25 Ways to Tell if Your Social Media Expert is a Carpetbagger. I encourage you to read it.
Not everyone who does things differently than we might have them do it is a carpetbagger. read more.. Beach Notes: flipflopWhen Does Flexibility Become Flipfloppiness?
The Business Owner’s Challenge
by Guest Writer Des Walsh
The picture I took recently of an abandoned pair of flip-flops prompted my thoughts today on what I regard as one of the most serious challenges business owners face today.
The challenge of balancing flexibility and openness to change with the read more.. Thanks to Week 165 SOBsSuccessful and Outstanding Bloggers
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read more.. What Robert Hruzek Said … About Selfless GiversA community isn’t built or befriended,
it’s connected by offering and accepting.
Community is affinity, identity, and kinship
that make room for ideas, thoughts, and solutions.
Wherever a community gathers, we aspire and inspire each other intentionally . . . And our words shine with authenticity. SOB Business Cafe 12-18-08Welcome to the SOB Cafe
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The Specials this Week are
Greg Verdino shows how to get ahead of the curve in 2009.
As read more.. How Can We Keep the Passionate Community Without the Risk?about how we use social media tools.
Social media tools make it easy for experts to share experience and give an opinions. That leads to great discussions and becomes best practices of more than one industry. When social media tools connect thoughts and ideas of people innovating and building, they’re elegant and powerful read more.. STORY TELLINGUsually I’m the one telling stories here, but when I find someone who’s better than I am, I stand aside. Today is one of those days. I’m pleased and delighted to announce that a woman I admire has agreed to write with me on Successful-Blog. I won’t say more. Her words introduce her better than read more.. Social Networking: User Generated Content and CommunityGuest Post by Richard Reeve
Social media intrigues me on many levels, especially as it relates to those platforms which have chosen to publish publicly. The poet Charles Olson predicted a day would come “when the private would be public.” I think that day is dawning.
If read more.. How Many Followers Make a Demographic?Seeing Numbers Instead of People
It happens in art and in science. I’ve seen the market flatten and demolish educational best practice. Exceptional music has been remixed into muzak. Groundbreaking movies have been merchandised into plastic toys.
Commercial culture depends on the theft of intellectual property for its livelihood. Mass marketers steal ideas read more.. The Mic Is On: We’re Making Each Other LaughIt’s Like Open Mic Only Different
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