Archive for June, 2009

“If I’m going to rely on you…

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

… then as we stay in touch on meaningless things, we can eventually work effectively together,” John T. Cacioppo says, observing what is happening with the daily tidbits of news we get about each other via Facebook and Twitter.  

Ironically, reading online about each other’s daily life means, for some including Julia Angwin, that they can dive into a “deeper conversation” [...]

Six Profitable Ways To Teach Groups What You Know

Friday, June 12th, 2009

If a coffee shop owner and a former minister can make money by leading groups then, perhaps, so can you and I.  In the following success stories see if there’s a method you’d like to try. With the right approach people are happy to pay you for the opportunity to hone a skill they already have [...]

Twittering Comedy Club Demonstrates You Can Tweet to Serve Your Customers

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

Instead of standing on a stage, one comedian at a time, humorists were leaning over their computers, waiting with bated breath for quirky Brit Tiernan Douieb to say “Go!”  In this Twitter Comedy Club experiment, drawing a crowd of 6,000 each comedian had a 10 minute act. They madly delivered their best lines in 140-characters, one after the other. [...]

How to Take Care of Your Team So They Take Care of You

Monday, June 8th, 2009

Joe Lee was sitting at a table, rapidly counting rain jackets in a small room somewhere above the sumptuous lobby of the Jamaican hotel where I was to speak at a corporate conference the next morning. I did not know who he was then, although he looked familiar. I was just told that the man [...]

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