by Whitney | Nov 7, 2009 | Uncategorized
I have been a big fan of Malcolm Gladwell’s work ever since reading The Tipping Point several years ago. About a week ago, I bought and started reading “What the Dog Saw and other adventures”, a book that’s largely a collection of his work in...
by Whitney | Nov 2, 2009 | business, economics, education, social media
This could also be entitled “What I’m learning from Malcolm Gladwell and Ron Popeil”. I picked up Malcolm Gladwell’s new book,”What the Dog Saw”- a collection of some of his New Yorker pieces. Since I wasn’t as blown away by...
by Whitney | Dec 14, 2008 | books, business, economics, education, learning
There’s always a year end meme that goes something like “Top Ten (insert noun here) of the Year”, so I thought I would do one of my own in a bunch of sequential posts (ten perhaps??). Here’s number one: Top Ten Books I Read This Year –...
by Whitney | Sep 25, 2008 | Uncategorized
Corvida from SheGeeks did a guest post over at Chris Brogan’s blog about how as the size of her social network has expanded on twitter, she felt the quality of the conversations she was having deteriorated. I think this is something many people have experienced,...
by Whitney | Sep 9, 2008 | Uncategorized
Chris Brogan had a very interesting post on Trust Agents this morning. It got me thinking about how people become trustworthy in the internet age, when relationships may be many, but have weaker bonds than say, the friendships you make in your off-line life, through...
