I’ll gently disagree with Chris Brogan’s idea about recycling blog posts yesterday. Go read it if you haven’t. Welcome back. Here’s why this is a bad idea. Senior master instructor Ken Savage of the Winchendon Martial Arts Center likes to compare life to a wheel on a wagon. Each year, the wheel turns around and…
Borrowing an idea from Tom Webster‘s social media monitoring, let’s take a look at your blog’s comments today. Start with WordPress (any blogging software will do, however). Open up your comments section and look at only approved comments, as I assume you de-spam your comments regularly before approving them. Open up your text editor of…
One of the best disaster prep foods I’ve always found to be reliable is good ol’ brown rice. It’s dense, full of nutrition, keeps reasonably well (not as good as white rice, but you sacrifice nutrition for longevity), and is relatively easy to make, especially with a rice cooker. In advance of Hurricane Irene, in…
I was delighted and excited to share some of my ideas, strategies, tips, tools, and methods for how to market your blog at Boston’s WordCamp 2011 event. As the video can be tough to see in spots, I’m providing the mindmap for the session, so that if you attended (or even if you’re just curious), you…
If you’re not familiar with the traditional Japanese dish onigiri, you’re missing out on one of the handiest portable foods there is. Onigiri date back at least to the 11th century, if not older, and were a food used by many Japanese, especially in the military, since they stored and traveled well. Onigiri are traditionally…
If you’re unfamiliar with the word arbitrage, it means this: In economics and finance, arbitrage is the practice of taking advantage of a price difference between two or more markets: striking a combination of matching deals that capitalize upon the imbalance, the profit being the difference between the market prices. If you extend the idea…
In yesterday’s post, we discussed the process of mergers and acquisitions (very roughly) and its implications for employees. Today, let’s talk about the career prospects for those employees. Stay or go? When companies merge, culture changes. Sometimes the change is slow and gradual, sometimes it’s immediate. In cases where a large company acquires a small…
