by Whitney | Jan 11, 2010 | business
Sometimes when I am talking to a client, I ask questions they make think are irrelevant to the topic at hand. Part of the reason for these question is that for me, I use the information about how a client feels about a project as part of the overall design of what...
by Whitney | Dec 14, 2009 | business, new media, social media
I’ve been reading Chuck Klosterman’s “Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs- A Low Culture Manifesto”. It’s basically a collection of essays-each one different, but each one (so far) displaying Chuck’s great sense of humor, connecting what...
by Whitney | Dec 4, 2009 | books, business, education
I just finished reading Malcolm Gladwell’s latest book, What The Dog Saw. Unlike The Tipping Point, Blink, or Outliers, which are basically “single” ideas expanded into book form, What The Dog Saw is a collection of Gladwell’s remarkable...
by Whitney | Nov 20, 2009 | business, community, education
I had the distinct pleasure of organizing the Web2Open at this year’s Web 2.0 Expo in New York City. Over these past few days, I’ve met a new group of amazing people, with skills and passion in over-drive. People who have brilliant ideas, projects and...
by Whitney | Nov 3, 2009 | books, business, community, economics, new media, social media
I had someone ask me a question about sharing and linking at my recent presentation about Blogging for Business at AGS University. They said someone had told them they shouldn’t link out to others because it was taking traffic away from your website and giving...
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...
