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Week 1 of National Just Write Month. How’s It Going?
November is a big month for social media, group activities. Movember is in full swing and countless men around the World are growing hideous looking mustaches to raise money to help stop prostate and testicular cancer. Myself included. November is NaNoWriMo, (National Novel Writing Month) and BlogHer has turned it into NaBloPoMo (National Blog Post Month). This prompted [...]
Spare Change
I’ve written a lot about change on this blog but by far most of the posts I’ve written on change have been this year. This is only a small sampling that doesn’t even include this weeks’ posts. Business Lessons From a Dead Viking - July 2007 Stop Trying to Change. It’s Pointless. - October 2009 Managing Resistance as [...]
How To Be Nimble In The New Economy
I don’t know anyone that thinks being nimble is a bad thing. In the business world companies are constantly praised for their ability to be nimble but more often, people lament the inability for large companies to be nimble. Being nimble means you’re adaptable, you’re more able to deal with change. You’re able to take advantage of opportunities quickly, [...]
Sometimes Making a Series of Mistakes is Better Than Being Right
There are, arguably, two kinds of change. Fast change usually driven from a point of crisis and long slow evolutionary change. Most of the attention gets focused on the first kind of change. It’s the most effective, because companies usually don’t have much choice. The second kind of change is really hard. It usually fails [...]
[Social Media Daily Reflection] Part 2 of Social Enterprise Top 10: Truths
Be sure to read all of @katlen’s Social Media Daily Reflection posts 1. businesses don’t need enterprise social networking Truth: The pace and scope of modern business requires that we revisit new and improved ways to collaborate and share ideas internally — especially if someone has information that can help you in the quest for business [...]
The Best Of “Google+ VS Facebook” Videos
Today’s guest post is provided by @ben_beck It’s been a heated debate between Facebook and Google+ on which is better. When big names like Chris Brogan abandoned there Facebook pages to head to Google+ it sparked a wave of Google+ VS Facebook videos. Of all the videos these are my favorites, let me know which is [...]
Crowdsourcing: The Biggest Business Opportunity Or The Greatest Evil Of Our Time?
Crowdsourcing is an interesting concept. There is a huge amount of potential to the approach and a vast untapped business opportunity. After all social media and many of the big sites are built off of the crowd and their willingness to participate and create. But there’s a problem. Crowdsouring either generates huge, market changing behavior [...]
[Social Media Daily Reflection] Part 1 of Social Enterprise Top 10: Myths
Be sure to read all of @katlen’s Social Media Daily Reflection posts. 1. businesses don’t need enterprise social networking 2. corporate secrets will be uncovered and tip off competitors and affect stock prices 3. gen Y workers get it but older workers won’t 4. social networks aren’t secure 5. it’s like Facebook 6. you’re putting money in [...]
Becoming a T-Shaped Polymath
Specialization is one of the cornerstones of a productive capitalist market. Over the last two decades the level of specialization continues to increase at an insane level. No project is too small to be broken up, no field is too niche to have multiple specialties. Managers and HP professionals have been debating how much further [...]
[Social Media Daily Reflection] I am not an expert, I am a human being
Be sure to read all of @katlen’s Social Media Daily Reflection posts I’ve been working in the digital marketing industry for several years now and I cringe on those occasions when someone introduces me as an expert. I know it’s intended to be a compliment — but ever since I started my digital career during the dotcom boom, [...]
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