I had the chance to sit down with the awesome people at Threadless in December in a very snowy Chicago. They are so brilliant. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
During the San Diego Fires in the fall of 2007, Nate Ritter, all around nice guy and twitterer took it upon himself to start becoming the aggregator of all pertinent news via his twitter account. The result? Nate became a public hero and is now reaping the benefits from his good deeds by speaking all [...]
Someone once asked me if reputation is interchangeable with Social Capital. Yes and no. To me, reputation is merely a dimension of Social Capital, not truly interchangeable. Social Capital is much more complex and includes:
connections
reputation
influence
bridging capital - the number of connections you have across to different industries, social strata, etc.
bonding capital - the depth of [...]
If you haven’t heard of WineLibrary.tv, you are in for a treat! Gary Vaynerchuk, otherwise known as Gary Vee is awesome to watch and has built himself a huge audience of wine lovers…people who may have not been wine lovers before.
Do you know what I think Gary’s secret is? Well, other than what he states: [...]
Here it is! The totally edited down version of my interview with the fabulous folks at Satisfaction. I have loads more footage (this is 1/20th of the footage), so I’ll probably be putting out smaller snippets. I didn’t think anyone would want to sit through 2 hours of us talking, though.
This particular section discusses the [...]
So, I had an amazing meeting with my new editor, John Mahaney, at Crown Publishing Group and he and Shawn Collins (the online guru there) were both very supportive of me publishing all of my research content publicly as well as creating a group of interested parties to give feedback along the way.
So, as [...]
From my presentation at e.day 2007…presentation and transcript below. The Video.
Slide 1. So, I’m here today to talk to you about a subject that is near and dear to my heart: “How to Make a Gabillion Dollars with Community Marketing…or something to that effect” And, truly, it’s pretty simple…there really are…
Slide 2. …only 3 ways [...]
In his amazing TED Talk, entitled, “Do Schools Kill Creativity?”, Sir Ken Robinson tells the story of going to see his son in the play A Nativity Scene. When the three wisemen appear (three costumed young boys), they deliver their lines with only the interpretation that youngsters can deliver. There are no ‘rights’ and no [...]
Although I haven’t previously presented at a conference on HR related techniques, my talk yesterday went quite well and many approached me afterwards to tell me that they were using some of the techniques in their management practices and it was working very well for regaining employee interest and raising morale. Some even reported a [...]
…complicated.
Riya’s Leaves India
Just recently a former coworker of mine from Riya India messaged me to ask me what I thought of Munjal’s recent decision to pull out of India. After I read his post and reflected on the sadness of it (I met most of the India team and really enjoyed hanging out with them [...]
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