Archive for May, 2008

How do you stay grounded?

I learned a long time ago that I am NEVER the target audience. As early adopters (if you’re a regular reader of this blog you’re probably an early adopter) it becomes easy to lose touch with reality. If you’re a fellow blogger then you live in a world filled with other bloggers and […]

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Random Thoughts 05/30/2008

Corey Smith’s Business and Technology Blog » 10 Life Lessons from a Rubik’s Cube
I like #6 the best -
Messing something up is easier that putting it together.
tags: ncb, business, lessons,

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An MBA, The Enterprise and Change

Anyone who knows me, knows that there is only one thing that’s constant in my life: Change.
Even if you look back a mere 3 months ago there has been a lot of change since then.
 
9 Months and 3 Managers
I’ve now been at HP 9 months and I’m being moved from the LaserJet Business (LJB) to […]

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Random Thoughts 05/28/2008

Hive Five Call For Contenders: Best Start Pages?
What start page do you use. I’ve been a an iGoogle user for years but I’ve been beta testing a couple different host based (not web based) pages that have some interesting advantages. I’ll blog about them at a later date.
tags: ncb, aggregator, start page, life Hacker

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Write 10 posts right now, GO! [Tuesday Homework]

In continuing with my Tuesday Homework assignments I want you to write 10 posts right now.
Actually I only want you to write 10 blog titles right now.
One of the hardest parts of keeping a blog going is having good posts when you hit a wall. A great way to overcome that is to always […]

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Sorry Video, Text Still Rules the Web

I recently sat in on a research forum where we asked small business owners several questions about how they find solutions to business problems on the Web. The following is pieces of relevant transcript. There are multiple people commenting all at once but I think you’ll get the idea.
when is video better? when […]

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I’m in the book, Groundswell (sort of)

I just got an email from the VP of Marketing for LaserJet, Vince Ferraro:
Our blog is quoted as part of the popular book, Groundswell.
The funny thing is that I had just bought the book last week and I wasn’t even aware that Vince’s blog was featured in it. Many of you may know that, […]

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Blog update: New Widgets, Badges and The Book

Housekeeping
I’m a bit of a tinkerer. Not on cars or electronics or anything that requires tools. I was actually referring to the blog.
I regularly make changes and actually still have a list of changes I want to make but I thought I would point out some of the changes and warn you of some of […]

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Random Thoughts 05/21/2008

How I Do It | chrisbrogan.com
This is me to a T. 6 hours of sleep: check. Small children: check. No TV, No cable: check. Type alot: check (could do better). I’m even teaching myself code. The real kind and the human engineering kind.
tags: blogging, sleep, Web2.Overload, ncb, chrisbrogan

Calling all Corporate Social Media Workers » […]

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We have a Twitter Down!

The title of this blog should be read out loud in your best drunken Scottish accent.
Twitter seems to be failing at an ever increasing rate. Some people are calling for a global day of tough love to show Twitter that this isn’t acceptable.
Others are just moving on to FriendFeed. If you’re not on […]

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