From the monthly archives:

January 2010

Sawhorse Media

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January 29, 2010

One of the “Professional Digital Curators” pointed out by @SteveRubel. As content continues to proliferate, we are going to need people (that we trust) sorting and sifting through all of this content and bringing forward the best of the best. There are semantic engines working on this (kosmix.com), and a great topical social network (dorthy.com [...]

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How Ideas Take Shape

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Ideas do not come into the world fully formed. They take shape. This drawing is a model for bringing ideas to life. It is based on the acronym for Shape — See, Hear, Ask, Play, Engage. I used to hate acronyms until I studied the word. It is Greek and literally means the “tip of [...]

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Communication Architecture

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This whole communication thing has gotten really complicated. I’m speaking now about the profession of communications, which I’ve worked in for nearly two decades now. We all know about the proliferation of media, and we know that communication shops (i.e. agencies and consultancies of all shapes and sizes) face challenges left and right. Now we [...]

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Improving your Skilz

January 26, 2010How-To's

My buddy Bryson Moore is a talented individual who runs marketing for the Soderquist Center. He’s also got a media background and a lot of great ideas. His latest is called Leadership Skilz. It’s a video series to help you improve – ahem – as a leader. They are inspired. He also posted some of [...]

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Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard

January 26, 2010Books to Read

They’ve done it again. You don’t have to be a prophet to know that the ideas that Dan & Chip put forth in this book are going to enter the lexicon quickly. Their ability to find disparate stories and weave them into a cohesive narrative is rivaled only by Malcolm Gladwell (IMHO). But it is [...]

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Office culture as social media (aka. how-to become part of a culture)

January 25, 2010Agency

I’m working on site for a new client this week. We are thinking about online and social media strategies (officially), but I am thinking (actually) about working in an office environment versus working in my own office. I’ve worked on-site for clients from time-to-time and it’s very disorienting initially, then it becomes very comfortable – [...]

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My Top 5 tools of the trade

January 22, 2010DIY

Without a doubt, these are the five items I would not try and run my business without: uni-ball Gel Impact (not RT) 1.0mm tip pens. I’d by refills by the case load if I could. You can get them at Office Depot, which I love except their rewards program is horrible. Moo.com cards. I got [...]

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DIY web 2.0 agency presence (without a staff or an agency)

January 21, 2010Agency

Yeah, I know…poor me, huh? Okay, so first things first – we have the url secured and the WordPress template (I’m using Thesis from DIY) loaded and functional. But I don’t like the design. And I’m not an official designer. I started life as a Creative Director, but I’m a writer more than an artist. [...]

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Doing versus thinking…

January 20, 2010Agency

It’s really nice to just sit and think about things – to roll them around in your mind, take them apart and reconstruct them in various ways. In a way, it is very satisfying. But only in a way – and that way is fleeting. Just a moment. Doing is very different. It is messy [...]

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