January 2010 Archives - 3/3

Relating By Narcissism

January 11, 2010 By Ian 3 Comments

I retooled my Google Profile recently because it felt barren and devoid of any purpose other than being a placeholder. I’ve gotten a bit wary of leaving accounts this way. Outposts are one thing, but building my own ghost town? No, thanks. The experience was a bit weird, and it’s not really finished. I need [...]

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Glory and Other Single-Tense Words

January 10, 2010 By Ian 2 Comments

What do you hear, when you hear the word Glory? You probably hear Success jangling around under it. If someone up and says, Success!, what do you hear then? I hear endings. I hear epilogue, being written after the fact, usually with a good dose of revisionist history. You almost never hear someone call something [...]

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Five Questions with Mark Dykeman – An Interactive Review of The Dip

January 9, 2010 By Ian 22 Comments

Last week I got the audiobook form of Seth Godin’s The Dip through iTunes – it was on for four dollars, how could I say no? – and finished it over about three days of on-foot commutes. I’ve since been trying to come up with a good way to communicate some of the lessons in [...]

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Children's Games and Social Media

January 8, 2010 By Ian 1 Comment

I was always crap at Simon Says. I was the kid who could only ever think of three things to have people do – stand up, sit down, run in place – and I’ve learned to mark this down to both an inability to develop internal go-to lists, and a dislike of having to issue [...]

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Lessons Learned By Stabbing Yourself with a Screwdriver.

January 7, 2010 By Ian 23 Comments

Stabbed myself with a screwdriver at work the other day. Hurt like hell. It’s better now – well, getting better anyway, that’s what a week of antibiotic cream is for. How? Renovation season, that’s how. Fixing up the store, moving fixtures. I work in a downtown location, so we have theft issues. As such, we [...]

Filed Under: Blogging Tagged With: Facebook, invetory, klutz, latent talents, linkedin, networks, parable, routines, screwdriver, superman, twitter, work

Looking Forward

January 6, 2010 By Ian 10 Comments

It’s amazing to see how the paradigm shifts after an arbitrary date. At the end of December, there were too many “Best of” and “A look back on” the previous decade stories to count. I tried to be forward looking; it appears I was ahead of my time. The tide turned, and some people are [...]

Filed Under: Blogging Tagged With: 2010, 2011, amber naslund, ambition, best of, chris brogan, david leggett, design, forward thinking, improvements, josh hanagarne, justin kownacki, looking forward, mark dykeman, rebranding, resolutions, the future

A Definition Of Value

January 6, 2010 By Ian 1 Comment

Everything has a price tag these days. How do we decide what has value? In a culture where anything can be acquired for a sufficient amount of money – land, real goods, art, ideas and other intangible objects, even integrity – how, or perhaps why, do we insist on assigning a flat numerological factor to [...]

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The Automated Prejudice of Scale

January 5, 2010 By Ian 6 Comments

How do you approach big problems? You know, the ones you feel – at first glimpse – can never be solved? After you ge over the shock, how do you go about tearing down the mountain? On the other hand, what do you do when confronted with a big project at work? Perhaps liaising with [...]

Filed Under: Blogging Tagged With: big fish, commerce, leadership, malcolm gladwell, outliers, power distance, retail, robert scoble, scale, scobleized, security, size matters, small fish, twitter

Choosing Your Audiences

January 4, 2010 By Ian 8 Comments

As willing as we are to be transparent (those of us who put our lives out online, anyway), we do need to be careful about choosing where we share, and the voice we use to do so. This isn’t just about context, though it could well be – Jon Udell has a concise way of [...]

Filed Under: Blogging Tagged With: buzzwords, digital body language, digital etiquette, digital-manners, liz strauss, mitch joel, nevermind the buzzwords, six pixels

you can’t tell me this doesn’t mean something

January 1, 2010 By Ian 28 Comments

Every so often, some luddite troll pops up and barks about how relationships formed on the internet don’t mean anything. Well, I have a story to tell you.

Filed Under: Blogging Tagged With: alamak, chris brogan, distance, dowager shadow, farewells, gifts, gladwell, history lessons, outliers, roleplay, rp, the internet, updated, winds of change, woc

Glory and Other Single-Tense Words

Five Questions with Mark Dykeman – An Interactive Review of The Dip

Lessons Learned By Stabbing Yourself with a Screwdriver.

Looking Forward

A Definition Of Value

The Automated Prejudice of Scale

Choosing Your Audiences

you can’t tell me this doesn’t mean something

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