A Little Light Reading

What’s on your nightstand or in your beach tote this summer? My summer reading looks like this:
Currently finished:
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell (2nd reading)
Groundswell by Christine Li and Josh Bernoff (2nd reading)
The Moral Animal by Robert Wright (TERRIBLE book, btw)

On the nightstand:
Made to Stick by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Planet Google [...]

Is Your Network Portable?

This is a question I ponder frequently. Have you focused on building a micro network and a nationwide network, or have you isolated yourself by walling off your garden?
I’m big on the idea of helping people and networking at a hyper local level. I also believe that your network is most effective if it also [...]

When False Metrics Distract You From Success

I’ve been thinking of this post for a while, each time I see someone using Twitter beg for followers, or obsess over making a “monumental” post for their random tweet milestone (500th tweet! 10,000th tweet! 1000th follower! and so on). Each time I see this, I want to point out that perhaps this is the [...]

FaceBook Upgrades Their iPhone App

FaceBook released an iPhone App for the iPhone 3G a while back that had everyone underwhelmed. It shut people out from their favorite features and it made it impossible to make or accept friend requests and other oddities. Version 2.0 of the FaceBook fixes these issues and many more, making it a better application over [...]

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