What is Marketing in 2010? (or) How Meta Can You Get-a?

I’m still trying to figure this out. I don’t have a marketing background, a technology background, or even a business background. I have a sales background – I’ve been dealing with people, confronting their hangups and counselling them through difficult decisions for most of my life. Solving problems for people is a part of my [...]

Finding the Outliers – The Fallout of Reading the Book

Outliers (which I reviewed recently) has forced me to change a lot of what I consider success, and how I’m going about approaching it. So, I’ve got a question for you: Are you in the right place?

The Need for a Three Dimensional Economy

Just like declaring any technology dead has become a bad joke, talking about alternative economic models seems to be popping up more and more. What we’re seeing is exploration into concepts like Whuffie, or a Relevance-based economy, the kinds of systems that look so good and tempting on paper that we’re willing to buy into [...]

A Thought Experiment For The Weekend

Today, I’m completely out of things to post.  have one more piece I’m working on for tomorrow, a reaction to something another blogger wrote. But then I’m out. No more topics. Yep. Blogger’s Block. So I’m going to try a thought experiment. I’d love it if you tried it with me, but I expect I’ll [...]

Book Review – Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

I picked up Gladwell’s Outliers: The Story of Success (affiliate link) during the Christmas season from the HMV that’s nest door to my store in the mall. It happened to be on sale, and I’d heard some decent reviews – I didn’t know what I was getting into, though. It’s not an overstatement to say [...]

Anti-Curating the iPad Launch

The bomb dropped this morning while I was out shopping for groceries. It’s not that I didn’t know apple was hosting an event today, I just didn’t care. With Robert Scoble on the scene to do what he does best and aggregate/contextualize and curate, nothing said of the countless blogs and other media outlets covering [...]

The Modern Face of Addiction

Let me tell you a little story. It’s one I’ve avoided for a number of years, because it has deep implications in my life – it’s a story about addiction. Not my addiction – though that did factor into this, I have no substance use issues – but the addiction of a friend who I [...]

News Flash: People Still Failing the Social Resume

About once a week, I get invites to be friends with people on Facebook. Some of them I take up – mostly, at this point, they come from people I know. A number do come from people I’ve either forgotten, sadly, or people who have decided to engage me – and please, by all means, [...]

Deconstructing Social Media: The Nuclear Option

As I’m writing this I have 323 followers on Twitter. Last night I had less than 300. This morning I had more than 350 – and then, one by one, the difference disappeared as I deleted used-nonce and pure noise followers. Obviously, Twitter’s request to some services to stop using auto-unfollow has not kicked in [...]

Do you let others take your advice?

You probably get a lot of advice, don’t you? You read help-me blogs and help-you columns, self-help books – the list of resources goes on and on. It’s a big business, helping people get to their highest potential, but how much of it is a crock? How much of that crock is based on people [...]