community, entrepreneurship, featured, social capital, vrm
Minding the Gap
There is much more business can learn from the values driving the growth of online communities than where to target the next generation of buyers.
community, featured, personal
Would You Sacrifice Love for Greatness?
Do you have to sacrifice love for greatness? And, if so, what would be your choice?
community, featured, social capital, vrm
Power to Change the Broken System
Now is the time for us to use all of the power we have to move business in the direction of customer-centric thinking. It's good for everyone.
community, featured, personal
The Hegemony of Proper English
We still need basic pieces of the structure of language to be able to understand one another, but we can certainly stop being so damned uptight about it.
community, featured, social capital, vrm
15 Things You Can Do Every Day to Disrupt the System
Disruptions don't require a great deal of organizing and you can't really plan when you are going to perform them. But they DO require courage.
gov2.0
Guest Post: Washington Forgets Best Case for Immigration Reform
Posted on 06 January 2010
To succeed in a knowledge-based economy, America needs an advanced-degreed, entrepreneurial, and globally-connected population. Today's immigrants bring these skills to the table - with aces. Continue Reading
community, personal
Emerging organically
Posted on 02 January 2010
Relationships form pretty much the same way online as they do offline...only geography is no longer a boundary. Continue Reading
personal
Men are from Earth. Women are from Earth. And so is Power.
Posted on 23 December 2009
...or so my recent experiences would demonstrate. The awful stereotypes that rotate through our culture that women are emotional, dramatic and needy while men are jerks who just want sex and space fall apart when we shift overall power dynamics. Continue Reading
community
Le Web Overview
Posted on 13 December 2009
Le Web could use a few tweaks to maximize the experience, but it's pretty darn awesome anyway. Continue Reading
community
Women Women Blah Blah Blah
Posted on 10 December 2009
Yes. The repeated bringing up of the lack of women at tech conferences is boring. I would love us to move onto another subject. But the fact of the matter is that these boring complaints actually lead to action. Continue Reading
community
Le Web: Bright Spots in the Afternoon
Posted on 09 December 2009
I’m happy to say that the afternoon of Le Web picked up and was less of a back-patting fest and more of a focus on the web…even the future of it! It was kicked off nicely with Chris Pirillo of Lockergnome (and Gnomedex) fame, who brought humanity to the discussion with his ‘Community is…’ presentation. [...] Continue Reading
Uncategorized, community, personal
No comment Is this Le Web or Le Clique?
Posted on 09 December 2009
I was taught that if I can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all. This applies to my official blogger position at Le Web 09 thusfar. I can be constructive about this. One of the reasons I left Silicon Valley area this summer and moved to Montreal is because of the growing sadness I felt for [...] Continue Reading
community, social capital
Some of My Best Friends Are Robots
Posted on 01 December 2009
Some of my best friends are robots View more documents from Tara Hunt. The presentation I gave at nextMEDIA in Toronto today. Basic premise, let’s put human stuff first when using the ‘new’ media (and in every case, in fact). Stuff like personality, quality, relationships and taking the time to invest in the people you follow/follow you [...] Continue Reading
personal
2010 Resolutions: a work in progress
Posted on 29 November 2009
Say ‘no’ more often – and learn to say it with panache! Get that startup of mine off the ground! Workout more – this one is pretty standard on everyone’s list, but walking the dog doesn’t cut it, right? Take a holiday – a real one. Unrelated to work. Just play. And dammit, stop making my [...] Continue Reading
personal
My Limited Phone Zone
Posted on 29 November 2009
[photo by Shutterstock] I’ve figured out why my teenage son doesn’t like taking phonecalls unless it’s an emergency…multi-tasking! I spend more and more of my time multi-tasking these days – cooking a meal while answering email while reading some articles on a subject I’m looking into while texting with friends while monitoring twitter for what people [...] Continue Reading
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