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Off to TEDxHouston today, but first, promised picture of new lamp #li
I will report back from the Houston version of TED, curated by CulturePilot. In the meantime here are some shots of the lamp by Gertrude Barnstone.
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Email is usually not the best communication channel
It's disheartening how many small businesses want to rely on email programs to stay in contact with their customers, because the flow of irrelevant information actually drives people away from email. And now people want customer service assistance to come through Twitter. As a small business do you really want to deal with complaints in…
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Moving things around: navigation, web sites, furniture of life #li
Yesterday I made major progress on revising the listing categories for Creative Houston and developing a new business model for the Columbia Club. At www.CreativeHouston.org, the listing categories are being rearranged so that when you hit the home page, you will see a real inventory of the creative economy in Houston. After entering the first…
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Old things to believe, new things to believe
For some time, marketing and leadership gurus have been advising professionals to 'tell more stories.' If you're looking to persuade people, they say, stories are more memorable and compelling. (See The Story Factor, among others.) According to Seth Godin: The story has to be integrated into your product. The iPad, for example, wasn't something that people were…
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A day for working in our gardens. #li
While Native Texas Wildscapes is working on my garden today, I will do the weeding and maintenance on my contact databases.
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How to “pull” your network to the next level #li
In The Power of Pull, Hagel and Brown detail an emerging ecosystem that allows people to pull resources toward them in order to execute their ideas. It can be a little overwhelming but here are five straightforward tips. I challenge you to execute one or two this week. I'll put my results in the comments…
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Becoming an authority in your field
Recently, I've starting hiding all the status updates from the Facebook pages I've "liked." (Hover your mouse over the upper left corner of the item in your newsfeed, click on the X, and choose "hide all from [page owner].") Now when I visit Facebook, I can see what my friends are doing again, while I…
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Here comes a week for launching nonprofits: internships and economic development #li
This week I'm working on the formal organization of two enterprises: Columbia Club and Creative Houston. We're hammering out the by-laws for the alumni of Columbia University to start raising money for Houston-area internships for CU students. And for Creative Houston, we're working on plans for strengthening the creative economy of Houston.
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Piling up content for next week, with pet photos
Just finished a very good blog post and I'm dying to share it, but I'm going to wait and post it on a weekday afternoon when people want to read that kind of stuff. I also tried to photograph my pets this morning playing "king of the hill" on the bed, but my camera is…
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