November 2008
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The Television Networks of the Future!
How will TV change in the next 5 years? 10 years? We’ve seen a massive shift in the past decade with the invent of companies like Tivo and Netflix. Still more new innovations like Hulu.com, CurrentTV and the possibilities through console gaming like Xbox live. I was reading some articles this week about how time shifting (people watching a show on THEIR time instead of network time) is...
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Do you know when you're a Digital Native?
When it’s not a digital camera, it’s just a camera… When it’s not a cell phone, it’s just a phone… And when you don’t call them your “Facebook/Twitter/Banktastic friends”, they’re just your friends…
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A company with a purpose
At least once a year I like to go through a what I’m calling a ‘State of the company’ review that answers questions as if we are starting this company from anew. It should be noted that what I try to avoid is being generic. Avoiding those scenarios like meaningless, adjective-heavy mission statements and over generalized goals that don’t “walk the walk”. If we...
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2008 voter turnout details emerging
The details are finally emerging about the voter turnout for the presidential election as districts finally are able to close the polls (by now counting absentee’s votes). In what many thought would be the biggest election turnout in history actually didn’t get the turnout expected. I was particularly interested from a generational breakdown perspective how it turned out. ...
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A CEO's salary measures success?
This weekend I was watching some of the Techcrunch50 video coverage and came across some interesting discussion between Peter Thiel and Mike Arrington. They batted around some different topics but one I found particularly interesting was the discussion of a startup Theil is invested in that is tracking startups metrics for VCs (follow that?) and one measurement they’ve found thus far is...
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Opportunity Lost - to be on a Board of Directors
The above picture is what the vast majority of Boards (especially FI boards) look like today. White, male, over-50. That’s a problem. How do you expect some perspective with a board like that? How can you expect to cater to upcoming generations? With that being said, I have recently been looking around for a board to be on for either a bank or a credit union. I didn’t care which...
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Speaking Evaluations - What's the value?
As a burgeoning speaker, the evaluation process, is probably the best way I know to grade yourself on how you’ve done (other than someone telling you personally or even better, referrals). I appreciate the organizers that do them because I’m always looking to get better but you definitely have to take them with a grain of salt. Here’s what I mean. These are the comments from...
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Thoughts from Election Night 2008
Wow. America (and the world) was witness to seismic shift in perspective and the evolution of what our country has become last night. Last night felt more like a Superbowl watching party than a standard election night coverage. I wanted to post some of my takeaways from the night: I was following CNN, Fox, and MSNBC most of the time. I think CNN had the best coverage for me as far as the...
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I Voted.
Did you? Photo by: chrisandbecca
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Why you should blog!
I’m lucky enough to get to talk to people around the country about topics like emerging technologies like the Web, communication techniques, and how those two mix and mingle with each other in today’s business. So I’m always trying to find new and better ways to get people to understand just what it means to do and try certain things like social networking, Twitter, or even...
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Generational Communication Comparisons
I came across this post discussing the communication techniques of Gen Y and loved the pictures displayed. Here they all are: They definitely made some pretty big assumptions here but I think the overall theme works. I wanted to add a bit to the conversation however. 1) Give the Boomers some credit. On the Boomers picture there is no existance of email or even a cell phone on it? Come...
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Rockin' the ROWE
I think it is probably a pretty easy statement to make that our work environments have changed. With the advent of the Internet and the miniaturization of technologies like laptops and phones there is no longer a need for a ‘8am-5pm mentality’ that we’ve been holding on to since the Industrial Revolution. We are in a knowledge economy and we rely on our employees to bring their...