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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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Reconfiguring projects for easier navigation #li
In addition to reconfiguring the catageories on the Creative Houston web site, I'm also going to try reconfiguring my work routine. The categories on Creative Houston need to match an inventory of the Houston creative economy. So you should be able to see a count of artists and museums, software developers and medical innovators.
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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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Big project for the day is to work on a loyalty program for a neighborhood #li
Today I'm going to be working on a 'neighborhood passports' which allow people to keep up with the businesses in their location and identify the ones they want to support. The concept is to set up a little database of businesses the resident can tap into, but it's quite a bit different from Yelp. Residents…
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Achieved my one-month goal from GEL Conference #GEL2011
As part of the last day of the GEL Conference I attended in April, I participated in a recap session at The Hired Guns, led by Allison Hemming. We were asked to set 3 goals: one for within 24 hours, one by the end of the weekend, and one to be completed within the month. …
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Five-minute loyalty refresher course
Inc. magazine recently rounded up the trends in loyalty marketing, creating a great opportunity to check up on your knowledge of best practices. Inc.com: The New Rules of Building Customer Loyalty, 2011-May-20, by the staff of Inc. magazine 1. Create enlightening experiences Many customers, especially new ones, don't know what to expect. To delight them,…
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