Thanks for a great year: 2010 remembered
2010 was a great year. It’s right — the end of 2009 was a little rough — but 2010 was one to remember. I had balance between work and home, tried some new things, kept writing and creating, and visited…
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What I learned on my Winter Vacation about Social Media
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIFYPQjYhv8&hl=en_US&fs=1&] I took a vacation this week. It was relatively short (don’t blink — you’ll miss it), but I learned some important things along the way. I read Erik Qualman’s book Socialnomics: How Social Media Transforms the Way We Live…
Why Improving things by 10x Matters for New Product Adoption
I’ve now got 500 (probably 800) channels and there’s nothing on. Well, I’ve overstated the fact. I have about 30 movie channels, at least 7 channels dedicated to major sports leagues, and innumerable shopping, food, and car chase channels. I…
It’s Harder to make UX Content than You Think
Recently (this evening, in fact) I found myself in front of the computer, script in hand, ready to compose an award-winning piece of user content. Unfortunately, when I looked at my first (and second draft) of the masterpiece, I found…
The 5 Things You Need To Know to Get Started in Social Media in 2010
As this is a “list” time of the year, I thought I would take a minute and share my thoughts about how to get started in Social Media in 2010. I’ve been talking to a lot of people about this…
How many people can I connect with, really? (Dunbar + friends?)
If you’ve read any network theory, you’re probably familiar with Dunbar’s Number, or the idea that groups tend to fall off quickly in effectiveness and cohesiveness once they exceed approximately 150. The finding came from some anthropological research originally, and…
Twitter prepares to cross the chasm
My friend Adam wrote this week that Twitter’s growth may be slowing and that he doesn’t think Twitter will ever be truly mainstream. I disagree, and have two reasons to do so: the market penetration of Twitter is still primed…
A simple “Thank You” speaks volumes
Thank you for reading this piece (but back to that in a moment.) Recently, I received valuable advice from a colleague. It wasn’t a business plan for a blockbuster company, a secret formula to synthesize gold from base elements, or…
“Good Enough” gets you going
As I’m now in a hybrid marketing/customer support/product support/all hands on deck position, I think a lot about the best way to spend my time (at work, and at home). Inevitably, the thinking goes like this: “I don’t have enough…
5 Ways to Extend Halloween to the Rest of the Year
Tonight’s Halloween (Great)! The favorite holiday of kids and adults alike (well, at least most adults), Halloween reminds us that dressing up, making a fool of yourself, and eating candy until you’re sick is definitely something you should do at…
