Social Media + Business = Tupperware Party

I just read an interesting post over at Chris Brogan’s site about the Tricky Path of Brand Relationships.  And while commenting, it hit me like a ton of bricks- Social Media is A Tupperware Party. In the “mommy world”, women are often invited to...

Why You Should Care About Attention

My kids have ADHD. I have ADHD. Having a background in developmental biology, I’ve been fascinated to learn how this whole attention thing works, and how you can manipulate attention in yourself and others. I think the reasons are obvious- if your attention is...

Sanitized Learning

In the past few months, I’ve become increasingly interested in experimentation. I’ve also become increasingly alarmed at the lack of this sort of experience for kids these days. It started with hearing Gary Stager talk about how multi-age learning groups...

Gratitude

I got a great phone call this morning from Ken Davis, who attended a presentation I made at AGS University in Wilmington recently.  He called to tell me that all the stuff I talked about regarding social networking has really helped him- he started making connections...

6 Degrees of Podcamp

Chris Brogan recently has blogged about things like “cafe shaped conversations” and a bit today about Dunbar’s Number.  I think the points about intimacy of friendships  and the people we know who extend our networks by their own, powerful networks...

Notice to Brands: Small Things Mean Alot

Tide CleanStart truck in Waterloo Iowa helping with the flood Originally uploaded by devries_publicrelations I was looking around the web for resources to try to redesign my laundry room, and I found the Tide “Loads of Hope” site. Tide has a big truck and...