Clay Shirky on Online Information
The easy part of treating digital news as a product is getting money from 2% of your audience. The hard part is losing 98% of your advertising base.–Clay Shirky
Online Relationship Building Help
“A one-size-fits-all friendship doesn’t work. Long term friends have a different level of connectedness than a new Facebook friend. Yet both have value.”–Jeff Hurt It’s easy to become frustrated or overwhelmed with building relationships online. I’ve found it helpful to think of four kinds relationships to help focus your time on social media. Close friends …
McDonalds Thrives in France Despite Cultural Resistance
“McDonalds has more than 1,200 restaurants in France — all locally owned franchises — and a growth rate of 30 restaurants per year in the past five years alone.”–Born in the USA, Made in France In spite of the culinary legacy of fine food in France, fast-food restaurants have become an integral part of daily …
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One More Reason to Share Lots of Photos on Your Facebook Page
“In an webcam eye-tracking study for Mashable by EyeTrackShop, the 30 participants who viewed top Facebook brand pages almost always looked at pages’ walls first — usually for at least four times longer than any other element on the page.”–Mashable It’s important to remember that most people interact with the information you share from your …
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3 Must Read Books as You Lead Change
In the real time era of social media it can be difficult to find resources that capture today’s rapidly changing landscape while sharing widely applicable principles. Here are the three must-read books: 1. Rework by Jason Fried If you are entrepreneurial and find yourself in an organization that’s either large or slow-moving this book will …
A 3 Minute Video to Help You Fight Procrastination
“Procrastination is all about choosing want over should.” “Now you must trick future you into doing what is right.” Here’s to a day of choosing what we should do! Tweet
12 Things I Learned in 2011
1. Stop Waiting for Permission 2. Imagination must be protected and nurtured. 3. Fear affects almost every decision I make. 4. Expertise combines information and experience. 5. Starting things is part of who I am. 6. God’s blesses out of abundance, yet I often dream out of scarcity. 7. Mentors are a must. 8. Faith, …
Wise Advice on Increasing Productivity
“Learn to accept that one finished product is worth more then 100 unfinished ones.”–from 10 Ways I Sabotaged My Success Ministry leaders that tolerate imperfection and string together a series of small wins are guaranteed to see more success than those that hold out or spend additional resources to get to perfection. Most of the …
Leading Change in Your 30’s
“The people who are most satisfied with their jobs are older employees – those age 50 and up. The most dissatisfied? Those between the ages of 30 and 39.”–The Discontented Thirties As a 34 year old I resonated with this entire article. I have to define dissatisfaction as discontent with the present reality, not necessarily …