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 [...]

Are you prepared to be hired or to find freelancers, consultants and employees in this Hire 2.0 world? You may have a leg up if you follow Aaron Strout or others who preach Hire 2.0 strategies, or if you’ve read my thoughts on the matter here and elsewhere. But there is a key component to [...]

By far the question I have been asked the most this month is “How do you feel about kids under 18 using Twitter?” (This is second only to “How do you feel about porn stars using Twitter?”, by the way.) I think what people are truly asking with the subtext of that question is “Do [...]

I did a presentation today at Jeff Pulver’s Social Media Jungle in which I referenced how much I prefer working with Generation Y (Millenials, Digital Natives). Talk about a crowd response! In the spirit of practicing what I preach, let me share my philosophy behind it.
As the Baby Boomers begin exiting the work force, my [...]

Topics on Fire is one of the many ways I’ve been tying to make social media effect real world change. This is a topic near and dear to my heart these days (you can tell, I went so far as to submit a panel for SXSW on the idea, which you can find, and vote [...]