by Whitney | Nov 23, 2009 | community, learning, new media, podcamp, social media
The Miracle is not that I finished, the miracle is that I had the courage to start. John Bingham This has been a big week for me. After organizing Podcamps – digital media community unconferences – for the past few years, we were asked to organize the Open...
by Whitney | Oct 23, 2009 | business, community, learning, social media
At the very first Podcamp Boston, CC Chapman and Mitch Joel did a great presentation on Personal Branding that altered the way I approached my web projects. Instead of always staying in the background, I learned how important it was to own your blog and podcast, add...
by Whitney | Sep 5, 2009 | business, community, education, happiness, learning, social media
A couple of my friends have recently come out with fantastic books- Mitch Joel wrote “Six Pixels of Separation” and Chris Brogan and and Julien Smith have come out with the New York Times best selling Trust Agents. Both books discuss how people are...
by Whitney | Dec 29, 2008 | education, learning, Uncategorized
I love quotes, and while I thought I’d shoot for ten, telling you why I like these makes this post pretty long. So I’ll just gather my favorite quotes here, fixed number be damned…. 1. You can do anything, as long as you are prepared to deal with the...
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 | Oct 16, 2008 | business, community, economics, finance, happiness, learning, new media, recommendations
I’m interviewing Marcus Buckingham for my podcast, and I got to thinking about a quote from an old book of his that can be best paraphrased as what’s common sense and obvious to you, isn’t always obvious to the next person. Your insights seem like...
