connections, content, conversations: commerce™
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“Ideas worth sharing.” You probably recognize the famous tagline of TED, the phenomenal annual meeting of super bright presenters. Hopefully you’re already a regular consumer of the free video content offered through TED and, if you’re an iPhone user, hopefully you’ve already downloaded the TED app (yep, there IS an app for that).
Here’s a widely-known [...]
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Bet you heard the economy stinks, right? Bet you actually might even FEEL something that sure feels like a stinky economy. As of this moment, Edelman Digital has 30 job openings. How do I know this? I heard it directly from Rick Murray, President of Edelman Digital.
Rick says Edelman is always on the lookout for [...]
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The Brandbuilder (Olivier Blanchard) posted another solid entry on his blog again today. (I read his blog most of the time, but especially over the past few days, since he, Chris Brogan and I will be heading to England to speak at the Like Minds Conference next week). He titled the post “The answer to [...]
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Love the title: Just Listen!
Released late in 2009, it’s already a best seller. Its author is a well-known psychiatrist, consultant, business coach. He also wrote Get Out of Your Own Way and Get Out of Your Own Way at Work. He writes a leadership column for FastCompany and is a syndicated columnist, including columns for [...]
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Last year, 2009, was a remarkable year. The explosive growth of social media carried with it many first time authors and first time public speakers. As an Advanced Toastmaster Gold and a member of the National Speakers Association, I’m thrilled to see so many people beginning to express themselves in public and share their best [...]
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“You have two ears but only one mouth,” my grandmother often told me. “That’s so you can do twice as much listening as talking,” she said. Grandma made her point. Most of us have to work hard to stop talking and pay attention to what others are saying. Listening, though, takes a lot more than [...]
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Fall, 2005
Whatever you do, focus on your audience. Get rid of fluff-filled, self-important statements like, “We at Blessing to the World, Inc. believe…” One of the things your audience wants to know is, do you know who they are. They also want to know they can trust you to deliver something they value. Before you [...]
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Fall, 2005
Seems like everyone’s looking for the right step-by-step, 1-2-3 system for getting others to do what they want. They want a linear path from here to there. That’s not the way it works.
One speaker I usually enjoy hearing drives me crazy whenever he talks about the creative process. He uses Roger Von Oech’s Explorer, [...]
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