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My 5 Favorite Words

From Jason Alba (al - buh)
August 12, 2010 at 3:59 pm

I was chatting with my buddy Thom Allen and wrote “sustainable.” I really do like that word… and it made me think about what my other favorite words are. ... (more)

Water Drowning

From Jason Alba (al - buh)
July 29, 2010 at 9:04 am

Last week I was swimming with my kids and my three-almost-four year old had this very concerned look, and in a voice worthy of pity and sadness, she said: “aaaaaaaw, look ... (more)

Influence: Art, Religion, Government, You

From Jason Alba (al - buh)
July 21, 2010 at 10:23 am

I had an idea to start a blog called “you are what you read,” and perhaps do book reviews and stuff like that. I’m an avid reader and I have a few writing projects, ... (more)

Are you a speaker? You are probably average.

From Jason Alba (al - buh)
July 20, 2010 at 1:49 pm

I love watching speakers present. I am a student of presenters and often find myself writing down two things: Things to do: what is the speaker doing that is amazing and awesome, ... (more)

Website? Favicon?

From Jason Alba (al - buh)
July 20, 2010 at 10:18 am

Do you have a website? Y/N If N… you can stop reading If Y… do you have a favicon? What, you ask, is a favicon? It is a little tiny icon that goes in the tab ... (more)

10 Marathons

From Jason Alba (al - buh)
July 19, 2010 at 1:32 pm

Today I hit 262 miles. That is the distance of 10 marathons… 26.2 miles * 10. I won’t even pretend to be a marathoner, but I think it’s cool that I’ve gone ... (more)

Scary Spam

From Jason Alba (al - buh)
July 16, 2010 at 8:09 pm

This is really clever, very scary… I think the spammers will have a good success rate with people clicking on this: here are the things to watch for: I don’t know ... (more)

How To Loop a YouTube Video

From Jason Alba (al - buh)
July 14, 2010 at 4:35 pm

I like to listen to music while I work… sometimes I get stuck on a song that I like to hear… here’s what I do so that I can hear the same song over and over. ... (more)

Eight Lunches, Business, Entrepreneur thoughts

From Jason Alba (al - buh)
July 5, 2010 at 1:36 pm

As I let the feedback from Eight Lunches incubate, and I noodle on the direction of the next draft, I’ve thought a lot about business. I think about it as if I really were ... (more)

What can almost $5M get you (as a business)?

From Jason Alba (al - buh)
July 1, 2010 at 9:02 am

I’ve been advised to go after my next round of funding, based on business goals/objectives (which are always lofty ). There are lots of thoughts about getting investment ... (more)

Mastering Social Media Marketing

From Jason Alba (al - buh)
June 25, 2010 at 8:22 am

I was prepping for an advanced LinkedIn session and found this article by Jeff Bullas: 5 Key Steps To Mastering The Social Media Marketing Landscape It is a pretty good post… ... (more)

Bloggers: Ready for hate?

From Jason Alba (al - buh)
June 24, 2010 at 10:02 am

I came across an article in the online San Francisco Chronicle titled 20 habits of highly effective job seekers. This was written based on Ford Myers stuff… I have met ... (more)

Buying a headset for your PC

From Jason Alba (al - buh)
June 9, 2010 at 12:44 pm

A few weeks ago I gave a fun presentation on hardware and software (and other stuff) for a home office. It was fun because the career coaches in the room were taking notes they ... (more)

Want to be an author?

From Jason Alba (al - buh)
June 3, 2010 at 10:49 am

This is one of the most interesting reads I’ve seen on being an author and the publishing industry. I’m working on my third book (Eight Lunches) and have a fourth on ... (more)

Mexico, the border and evil

From Jason Alba (al - buh)
June 2, 2010 at 3:03 pm

I’m pissed. I just learned that a friend of mine who lives in Mexico was shot, multiple times, in Juarez. Juarez. That town in Mexico that has had thousands (?) of murders ... (more)

Eight Lunches Update

From Jason Alba (al - buh)
May 19, 2010 at 5:40 pm

Folks… WOW. I asked for help and you came through, thank you! I closed the comments from the original post because feedback is coming in and I need to digest it all and ... (more)

Gmail Team: Please Fix This

From Jason Alba (al - buh)
May 13, 2010 at 10:50 am

UPDATE BELOW… Taking a quick break from my book thingy… I have migrated over to Gmail and Google Apps (which allows me to have gmail functionality on my business email) ... (more)

Eight Lunches Excerpt & Request for Feedback

From Jason Alba (al - buh)
May 5, 2010 at 5:29 pm

I just finished editing (second draft) my third book, which is titled Eight Lunches. You’ll see why it has that title in the excerpt below, which is essentially the intro ... (more)

Money: King, Queen and Jester

From Jason Alba (al - buh)
April 7, 2010 at 6:45 pm

Leave a comment and tell me which of the following is the King, which is the Queen and which is the Jester? Revenue Profits Cash Flow I don’t seem to remember this discussion ... (more)

Ideas vs. Network #Godin

From
March 26, 2010 at 9:48 am

One of my favorite blog posts here is called Fake Metrics.
Seth Godin recently wrote a post titled Viral growth trumps lots of faux followers. In it he talks about how to grow…

... (more)

Effective Video Communication

From Jason Alba (al - buh)
March 25, 2010 at 12:17 pm

After my video guy did the first edition of the What is JibberJobber intro I asked my Twitter people for feedback. Karin Hermans responded with links to two resources… ... (more)

You don’t “write a blog” … #petpeeve

From
March 19, 2010 at 4:56 pm

My heavens, every time I hear this I cringe.
“I wrote a blog…”
No, you didn’t, you newbie! You wrote a BLOG POST.
You don’t write an envelope, do