October 2007
34 posts
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Coors Field
shawncampbell posted a photo: wow!! (via shawncampbell’s shared items in Google Reader)
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Gladwell's "Blink" →
Oct 24th
Gladwell's "The Tipping Point" →
Oct 24th
Sutton's "The No Asshole Rule" →
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The Tenth Dimension? →
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how's the wea... (0_VIDEO_00009.3g2) for October...
snowy… wet roads; much better than earlier thoug. Author: shawncampbell Keywords: mobile video cellphone shawncampbell Added: October 21, 2007 (via shawncampbell’s shared items in Google Reader)
Oct 21st
Seven Things That Keep Us From Getting Home on...
Time wasters are often things that we enjoy. They often are the seed of great frustration as well. The frustration manifests at the end of the day when we think, “What did I do today?” or “Why didn’t those things get done?” or “I guess I’ll be here until 8pm so that I’m not late with that project.” Recognizing some of our time wasters as we get into them is a great thing to do because maybe...
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Oct 18th
Johnson's "Metaphors We Live By" →
Oct 17th
Oct 16th
Do you think they did it for the PR?
Of course not. I heard from a dozen people last night, all pointing me to: I Heart Zappos. A woman had a touching and memorable experience with Zappos and wrote about it. It’s really clear that there was no PR intent at all, it was just one human reaching out to another. And that’s my point. What would the people in your organization do? Are there so many rules and procedures it would...
Oct 16th
Do you think they did it for the PR?
Of course not. I heard from a dozen people last night, all pointing me to: I Heart Zappos. A woman had a touching and memorable experience with Zappos and wrote about it. It’s really clear that there was no PR intent at all, it was just one human reaching out to another. And that’s my point. What would the people in your organization do? Are there so many rules and procedures it...
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Oct 16th
Why Small Businesses Don’t Invest in Online...
I just wrote about the story of Costco who continually expands online so it even eclipses their sales offline. Since the cost of doing business is so much less online, this is an opportunity for businesses of all sizes, including small businesses. A new study by Opus Research shows why small businesses don’t invest in online marketing - even though it could have a large impact increasing sales....
Oct 13th
Low-tech Inventions That Help Change Lives
angelaelle writes “The current issue of Popular Mechanics is featuring their Breakthrough Awards program for inventors. Some of the winning inventions help improve the living conditions for people in third world countries using low-tech materials and assembly methods. Technologies like this cookstove for people in Darfur, and in the case of this Windbelt developed by Shawn Frayne, could be...
Oct 11th
kaizen
From PsychoTactics’ Newsletter …Kaizen is what the Japanese call ‘continuous improvement’. The ‘zen’ in Kaizen emphasizes the ‘learn-by-doing’ aspect of always improving. Kaizen methodology is about making changes and monitoring results, then adjusting… ©2001-2007 Psychotactics Ltd. All rights reserved. Wouldn’t you love to stumble upon a...
Oct 10th
Make Your Web Site Media Friendly -- Please!
How easy is it for a journalist to find a media contact person on your Web site?If your site is like most of those I clicked around this week while gathering information for a magazine article assignment, you’re making it harder than it should (or needs) to be. As soon as you make a journalist’s job harder, you’re increasing the odds that you won’t get that valuable free...
Oct 6th
OAuth: Share Your Ideas, Not Your Password
As we’ve thought more and more about the big challenges facing the social media world, we’ve been inspired not just by the communities that use our tools, but by the community of peers that make other great sites and services. That’s inspired us to create technologies like OpenID to help with authentication and identity, or to support services using memcached to help scaling....
Oct 5th
Sustainability: The Green Age of Advertising
While reading through The New York Times on Monday, I came across a giant blue ad proclaiming “It took 125 years to use the first trillion barrels of oil. We’ll use the next trillion in 30.” More blue boxes showed… (via shawncampbell’s shared items in Google Reader)
Oct 5th
Reality Check: FeedHub
I subscribe to over sixty feeds, and they generate 1,000 posts per day. If you subscribe to multiple RSS feeds, you’re probably overwhelmed by the amount of posts like I am. FeedHub reduces the number of posts to those that are most relevant to your interests. To start, you export your feeds to an OPML file and upload it to the FeedHub site. FeedHub creates one individualized feed by watching...
Oct 5th
EXTEND: hope
EXTEND: hope Denver First Church 42 min - Oct 1, 2007 Pastor Tim presents the first message of a three part series explaining the vision of Denver First Church. (via shawncampbell’s shared items in Google Reader)
Oct 1st