Financial aid swansong: Massachusetts College Goal Sunday
Financial aid swansong: Mass. College Goal Sunday
January 31, 2010
November 13, 2009
Financial Literacy presentation at MASFAA
Here's a recording of a financial literacy presentation I did for the Massachusetts Association of Student FInancial Aid Administrators. Please watch this with a friend or colleague present and do the exercises together for maximum benefit!
October 1, 2009
What Farmville should teach us about profitability
Profits! Profitability! The holy grail of business. Yet surprisingly, one of the most difficult things to calculate. Companies spend thousands of dollars a year in consulting, technology, software, systems, and accounting firms just to get a vague idea of their profitability. Why?
July 9, 2009
The only green shoots are the ones you're smoking
I present two charts.
June 22, 2009
I was on a boat called PAB09
Podcasters Across Borders 2009 has wrapped up and the team of Mark Blevis and Bob Goyetche threw yet another impressive event. This year's PAB theme was ostensibly bringing outside knowledge into the podcasting world, but the general subject of many of the presentations was on story more than anything - ways to more effectively communicate your story from Six String Nation to a Hollywood career. There were some spectacular new tools and techniques debuted which I look forward to integrating into my shows, the Financial Aid Podcast and Marketing Over Coffee, ideas that I think will, if they work well, bring things up a notch. Also picked up some great new photography techniques I'll be trying out soon.
June 17, 2009
How do you reconcile openness and secrecy?
Here's another serious topic for discussion: how do you, in social media, reconcile openness and secrecy?
June 2, 2009
Local recession indicators
Want to know how the recession is affecting your small part of the world, if at all? Check your workplace refrigerator. In boom times, folks tend to eat out more, especially for lunch. In leaner times, folks bring lunch, especially leftovers from the previous night's dinner. This, plus a slew of other local economic indicators, tells you more about how the recession is impacting your world, your industry, your company, and your community than all the market metrics combined, because this is the sort of thing you see every day.
June 1, 2009
The eye of the storm
A couple of years ago, I posted a graphic of the mortgage resets from Credit Suisse First Boston. Let's see where we are now.
May 10, 2009
Turning this economic ship around
Take a look at these three charts.
April 21, 2009
Time is not money
There's a popular expression, a cliche, that says time is money. However, time isn't money. Why?
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