by Whitney | May 6, 2012 | books, business, community, economics, friends
Chris Guillebeau is an amazing guy. When he was doing a tour for his prior book, The Art of Non-Conformity, he thought he would head to Delaware, find a Starbucks and have a meet-up. Unfortunately, Wilmington’s Starbucks are more suburban, so I emailed him and...
by Whitney | Mar 19, 2012 | community, Discovery, education, explanations, social media
I come to blogging through Podcasting. As a podcaster, I’ve tried to model what I do in interviews on the work of Terry Gross and Ira Glass, who have a way of making an emotional connection with their interview subjects and their audience by getting people to...
by Whitney | Mar 13, 2012 | community, explanations, learning
One of the largest problems we face is objectification- literally, treating or turning people into things or objects, instead of seeing them as proxies for ourselves. There was an article in the New York Times about a marketing firm hiring homeless people and giving...
by Whitney | Mar 12, 2012 | community, friends, learning, Uncategorized
A few years ago, when I started podcasting and blogging, I knew I was doing something unusual. Being on what turned out to be the “cutting edge” felt a little weird, but I had good company, with a band of fellow geeks and nerds. When the people we told...
by Whitney | Feb 29, 2012 | community, economics, education, learning, new media, social media
Seth Godin put out an interesting manifesto on education yesterday, called Stop Stealing Dreams. It’s a free download and can be read online, printed, or read in any ebook format. I strongly recommend it to anyone even remotely interested in education. I...
by Whitney | Feb 15, 2012 | Branding Your Busienss, business, community, Discovery, learning, personal, Uncategorized
It seems like there’s a resurgence in interest in creating more than just text online to drive interaction. I had a reporter contact me yesterday to talk about the use of podcasting for niche audiences, and then there’s the explosion of interest in...
