March 2010
24 posts
Do You Still Need a Website? →
Between third-party apps and social media, some business owners are saying no—and it’s working.
I see their point but I still think a ‘home base’ with information providing all news and networks about you is still important and as easy it is to do now, why not? What do you think?
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Where Jenny and I first met.
Yesterday, I was invited back to guest lecture for the students of University of North Texas’s Future Professionals group. My talk was about next generation businesses and the history of communications. (Slides here) I noticed when getting ready for my talk that the class was in the GAB (General Academic Building) which, as luck would have it, was the same building Jenny and I first met...
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5 Must-Have Products for the Virtual CEO →
Notice the trends here? CEOs who need to feel important can just HAVE the corner office. I want the freedom to communicate from wherever I please.
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I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was...
– Harry S Truman
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Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world | Video on TED.com
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The challenge: to reinvent our management systems so they inspire human beings...
– Gary Hamel (Book: The Future of Management)
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
– Mark Twain (via 37signals Rework)
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52 Weeks of UX: User Interface as Customer Service →
Great post and I particular love the closing quote by Josh Porter:
“User interface is customer service for the computer.”
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If I’d listened to customers, I’d have given them a faster horse.
– Henry Ford
Can you recommend me please? →
Just wanting to get added to the ‘entrepreneur’ category. Click on the ‘recommend’ button to help, thanks!
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It’s no longer a question of staying healthy. It’s a question of...
– Jackie Mason (1931)
When you look at data as an abstraction, new insights emerge. Brillant TED talk by Gary Flake.
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My Status Updates: WTH are you talking about?
“I don’t know what the hell you’re talking about.”
is a phrase that I’ve been getting over the last few weeks from my friends of various social networks: Facebook, LinkedIn, whatever. I didn’t think anything of it at first and chalked it up to it being about a topic they weren’t interested in but having a couple conversations offline it appears that wasn’t the case.
“I don’t understand all...
Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.
– Og Mandino