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Back to Basics: An Open Letter to Publishers

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March 12, 2010 at 1:35 pm
image credit: Dave Bleasdale Dear Colleague: As a fellow member of the publishing industry, I’ve been struggling a bit lately to wrap my head around our ... (more)

Think Small: Rapid Innovation

From wordpost
March 9, 2010 at 9:59 am
image credit: Feliciano Guimarães In my most recent post, I asked if enterprise should think small. But as a close friend said to me, it’s one thing to ... (more)

Should Enterprise “Think Small”?

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March 3, 2010 at 3:01 am

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As social business concepts emerge, there is a clear and growing divide between those companies that have embraced social modes of work and those that are

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On Shifting Online Business Models: Death to Ads!

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February 23, 2010 at 10:29 am
image credit: A. Drauglis Furnituremaker It’s one thing to talk about how to leverage new social platforms to do business better. It’s another to talk about shifting ... (more)

10 Steps to Writing a Popular Blog Post in no Time Flat

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February 19, 2010 at 10:00 am
In a recent email, someone accused me of not being snarky enough lately. HA! You asked for it: Here they are, 10 steps to writing a popular blog post in no time flat: Spend 2 ... (more)

Are You a One-Trick Social Media Pony?

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February 16, 2010 at 9:57 am

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I’m talking to you, young, hip, fancy social media blogger/guru/maven. You get engagement, community management, and customer interaction.
At

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Project 7: Change the Score

From wordpost
February 11, 2010 at 7:00 am
As part of my commitment to offer free ad space on wordpost.org in 2010, I recently interviewed Abby Wambaugh about Project 7, a socially-conscious, socially responsible, social ... (more)

Guest Post: R.I.P. Face-to-Face Customer Service

From wordpost
February 9, 2010 at 10:06 am
image credit: icathing Although I’m hesitant to proclaim that any traditional form of marketing or customer service is completely dead, the shifting social landscape has ... (more)

Silence and a Celebration of Failure

From wordpost
February 4, 2010 at 7:07 am
Last week Carlos Miceli again proved profundity can be carried in 140 characters when he wrote: Reflection is the most painful and effective way to become wise. I think it’s ... (more)

A Defense of Grad School

From wordpost
February 2, 2010 at 9:00 am
Last month, a few other young professionals, namely Nicole Crimaldi, Matt Cheuvront, and (to some extent) Shane Mac suggested that the best education is self-education. As one ... (more)

Why “iPad” is a brilliant name

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January 28, 2010 at 10:16 pm

Despite the obvious connection between a certain feminine hygienic product and “iPad,” I think the name is brilliant. In fact, I think that Apple may have done it on

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Fail Fast, Fail Cheap applies to your career, too.

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January 26, 2010 at 3:38 am

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To be honest, this post has less to do with failure and more to do with personal innovation from within the corporate structure—the struggle to make change

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A Defense of Blogging

From wordpost
January 20, 2010 at 4:50 am
image credit: Andrew* Yesterday Rebecca Thorman contested that “bloggers are not writers” and “blogging is not writing.” I happen to disagree, but this ... (more)

Guest Post: Writing as a way of thinking

From wordpost
January 19, 2010 at 6:52 am
I had the opportunity to guest post over at Srinivas Rao’s personal development blog, The Skool of Life. Stay tuned too, because tomorrow my interview in the “Up and ... (more)

Help Haiti Blog Challenge

From wordpost
January 15, 2010 at 5:50 am
Image Credit: United Nations Development Programme (uploaded 01/14/2010) [tweetmeme]In watching the horrid events unfold in Haiti (and yes, those boxes in the photo above are coffins), ... (more)

The Economy of Collaboration 3.0

From wordpost
January 14, 2010 at 4:02 am
Original Image: Jill Clardy[tweetmeme]Recently, Carlos Miceli argued that the future of collaboration is not in win-win transactions, but in a pay-it-forward type of interaction ... (more)

On Twitter’s Flat-lined Growth

From wordpost
January 12, 2010 at 3:41 am
Image Credit: Jim Linwood [tweetmeme]Twitter’s recent flatline has some Twitter-crazed marketers scrambling. After all, you spent all that time drafting and creating a ... (more)

To Gen-Y: Part of the reason your ideas are ignored

From wordpost
January 5, 2010 at 11:06 am
image credit: Joey Gannon [tweetmeme]Gen-Y will change the world. Right? I mean, after all, we’re different. We’re the internet babies, we’re uber-connected and ... (more)

Evil, Ancient Greece, and other Marketing Stuff

From wordpost
December 29, 2009 at 3:53 am
image credit: Raymond Yee [tweetmeme]Is marketing evil? When Seth Godin pondered the question earlier this year, he came to this conclusion: Just because you can market something ... (more)

10 Business and Life Lessons I learned from a Truck Driver

From wordpost
December 22, 2009 at 2:54 am
photo credit: Ryan Holst [tweetmeme] One of the smartest people I know, is of all things, a truck driver named Jim. He’s been driving for over 30 years, long enough that ... (more)

What we can learn from Boone Oakley

From wordpost
December 18, 2009 at 4:40 am
image credit: Bruce Berrien [tweetmeme]Marketing has always been and always will be about telling stories. Godin’s All Marketers are Liars Tell Stories: If you think that ... (more)

3 Marketing Strategy Mistakes to Avoid (Guest Post)

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December 17, 2009 at 8:46 am
Today I guest posted over at Jason Markow’s Think (Here) Blog. First thanks to Jason for the opportunity to post on his great up-and-coming blog project, and second a taste ... (more)

Simple: A Case Study

From wordpost
December 15, 2009 at 7:49 am
a campaign by @shanemacsays [tweetmeme] Running a business, executing a successful marketing campaign, analyzing your sales data, all of this can be very complicated. But the ... (more)

Free advertising on wordpost.org in 2010

From wordpost
December 11, 2009 at 7:00 am
Image Credit: Jennifer Donley [tweetmeme]In the spirit of giving this grueling year and decade from hell a nice kiss off, I’ve decided to give away ad space on wordpost.org ... (more)

Gift

From wordpost
December 11, 2009 at 2:58 am
What’s I’ve been thinking a lot about the purpose and direction of Image Credit: Jennifer Donley (ceanandjen on Flickr); original here Related Posts facebook ... (more)