Blogging Comes of Age in the Movies
Nora Ephron’s new movie Julie & Julia (opening Aug. 7th) does for blogging what her 1998 movie You’ve Got Mail did for email.
Ripped from the Headlines – Twitter
I was still quite surprised to see it jump off the headlines of The Washington Times this morning when I stopped to get coffee: “Palin fires back at critics on Twitter.” The Times is a very conservative newspaper by Washington standards, and to have that screaming from beneath their masthead gave me a jolt. My mind registered “Twitter” but took a minute to orient where I was seeing it – in this very unexpected context.
Applying Tools to Purpose
A social media strategy has to be built on the foundation of applying tools to purpose. There are numerous tools available on the web to reach existing customers and potential customers, but how do you select which tools to use? Start by identifying what the purpose of reaching out through that platform will be.
Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done
May 29, 2007 – I didn’t actually read this book, I listened to it. I found this neat little device at the bookstore, sort of like aniPod only smaller, that had the whole book on it. I believe this was a stroke of good fortune for me because the book is full of fairly weighty material. Listening…
Field Notes on the Compassionate Life – Marc Ian Barasch
(May 28, 2007) Subtitled: A Search for the Soul of Kindness. I don’t know too many people who would automatically think that “compassion” and “business” go hand in hand. (Take a breath and visualize Starbucks.) It would be convenient to think we could truly compartmentalize our lives into neat boxes and sort out feelings and…
Made To Stick – Chip & Dan Heath
(May 2007) – Not to be overly dramatic with this, but I think Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die is the new age Bible of effective communication. I’m not sure I need to say anything more than that (but of course I will.) This book came out in January of 2007 and…
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There – Marshall Goldsmith
May 30, 2007 – This book proposes to help us “Discover the 20 Workplace Habits You Need to Break.” And I discovered I have quite a few of the 20. I listened to this as an audiobook, and then wanted to quote something out of it for a newsletter I was writing, so I ended up buying…
Leadership and Self Deception – Arbinger Institute
Nov. 26, 2005 – Subtitled “Getting Out of the Box” this is another parable type story that works well. Amazon pairs it with another book entitled Bonds That Make Us Free: Healing Our Relationships, Coming to Ourselves by C. Terry Warner, also of the Arbinger Institute. I thought both were excellent and would recommend both. TheLeadership book explores…
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