Mitch Joel and Mashable both are raising red flags about social media being focal points for insane quantities of narcissistic behavior. Mitch asks: So, the question is this: how do people build and develop their personal brands, if all we really want is content that is valuable to us and not self-promotional in any way,
Food for thought: BlizzCon, the annual conference held by Blizzard Software to discuss their products with their customers, is happening right now. Blizzard’s conference and convention attracts fans from all over the world to ask questions, try out beta software, and give feedback about their stuff. If you’ve ever been at any company’s product launches
There are two basic kinds of secrets – secrets of information and secrets of experience. Secrets of information are data points. The ingredients in Coca Cola. The Colonel’s 11 herbs and spices. These secrets are valuable until the information becomes commonplace or available enough that competitors can use them to their advantage and your disadvantage.
I sent out a request for a recommendation/referral to my LinkedIn contacts this morning for a senior web app dev for Edvisors, knowing full well that there are some recruiters in the list, even though we explicitly state in the job ad that we don’t use recruiters or agencies. More than a few folks sent
The passion funnel is much less dirty than it sounds. For every discussion of monetization in new media, there’s an equal discussion about the amateur, the practitioner who does something for the pure love of it and not for money. However, amateurs can still take a great deal of knowledge from the professional world and
There is no such thing as free unless the thing in question is without value. When you write a blog post you give away to the world on your blog, it is not free. You spent time, energy, effort, and knowledge writing it, time that could have been spent doing something else. When you share
Every conference these days has a hashtag and attendees are (unless explicitly prohibited) tweeting, live-blogging, streaming audio and video. If you wanted to, from your desk, you could attend nearly every conference in the world, and for free as opposed to paying $50-$5000 to attend. In terms of content, you’d probably get anywhere from 80%
It’s Canada Day (or Dominion Day) so I thought I’d pick something Canadian for today’s A Week With A View. The trouble is, there’s too much to pick from. Here’s a selection. Clouds in Quebec by Michel Fillon: Victoria Glacier in Alberta by Laszlo: Vancouver Island by Zedzap: And new media friend Angela Misri, shot
