by Whitney | Mar 15, 2010 | Uncategorized
I’ve been having an ongoing discussion with several friends about what keeps them engaged in blogging, podcasting and the like, and why they have shut down some of their older projects or put them on hiatus. Some folks don;t feel like they are generating any...
by Whitney | Mar 11, 2010 | Uncategorized
It seems like anytime I shop in a store or hear a commercial, a brand or commercial entity of one sort or another asks me to become a fan or a friend on Facebook and to follow them on Twitter. As someone who tries to help businesses figure out how to use social media...
by Whitney | Mar 10, 2010 | books, business, economics, education
I’m just finishing “Switch: How to change things when change is hard” by Chip and Dan Heath. As I’m sure everyone who knows me knows, Chip & Dan Heath wrote one of my all time favorite “business” books, “Made to...
by Whitney | Mar 9, 2010 | Uncategorized
If there’s one concept that keeps getting reinforced for me over and over again it’s that I do my best when I do things that are challenging. It means exploring unknown territory. It means doing things where there’s often a risk of failure. It...
by Whitney | Feb 23, 2010 | Uncategorized
I listened to the most recent Media Hacks episode of Mitch Joel’s excellent Six Pixels of Separation podcast, where the guys were discussing everything from the Please Rob Me website, geo-location apps like Gowalla and Four Square, and even Blippy, my favorite...