From Twitter: sophware: @cspenn Good stuff. Do you have a similar list of people you respect? That’s usually harder to make catchy, but would be great to see. People whose records actually do speak for them. People who accomplish real, tangible results. People who happily say “I don’t know” and follow up with “but I…
Financial coaches who aren’t fabulously wealthy. Chefs who crusade against foods. There’s more than enough to advocate for that if you’re crusading against something, you’re probably not cooking delicious things. Fitness personal trainers who are seriously overweight. Black belt “masters” under the age of 13. Social media experts. Any (American) politician whose ads include the…
I had the pleasure and privilege of speaking on the Robust Online Content panel with Dr. Matthew Grant, Phil Juliano from Novell, Valeria Maltoni from Sungard, and Mike O’Toole from PJA on Monday at the MarketingProfs B2B Forum. One of my personal themes (that I didn’t articulate in the panel) for the conference has been…
I’ll be at the MarketingProfs B2B Forum today, speaking on a panel about creating compelling content with Matthew Grant, Mike O’Toole, Phil Juliano, and Valeria Maltoni. If you’re at the B2B Forum, say hi. If you have no idea what I look like, the photo at the top of the post should help a little,…
I posed a question on Twitter that cuts to the heart of all of this stuff: What is social media? Seriously, what defines social media from any other form of media? Lots of folks responded. bigguyd: @cspenn interactions. SM is a two way street where traditional media is one way, typically. comedy4cast: @cspenn We all…
Do you know what happens when you set foot in the ocean? In that brief moment, you touch the world, all of it, because every drop of water that touches your feet has touched every shore, every beach ever. So it is with the Internet, with social media, and with the news. When you check…
An interesting bit of Twitter conversation fleshed out. chrisbrogan: 10,000 hours of practice: the magic number of skill mastery. – Gladwell. cspenn: Gladwell failed to answer how to overcome advantages that other outliers have. Only major flaw in that book. chrisbrogan: meaning, in a pool of many 10k folks, what causes one person to rise?…
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,…
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. Congratulations to all. We’ve made it through the subprime crisis and only lost GM, every investment bank, nearly wiped out the FDIC Deposit Insurance Fund, put 1 out of 8 homeowners…
