Personal Branding vs Corp Marketing
I’m wondering if there is a such a thing as fashionably late to something like blogging. I tried this once before on my work’s blog site, but that felt like the wrong place for the topics I found...
View ArticleFinding Myself
Who am I? Who am I? This question is circling my brain while I try to figure out what I want to write about. Really it goes more like this: Who am I? What does that image say about me? Ewww, what is...
View ArticleWhat Drug Dealers can Teach us About Free
Free has worked as a great business strategy for drug dealers for ages. Give them the first taste for free, get them addicted, they will come back for more and be willing to pay for it. Unfortunately,...
View ArticleThe Body I Want
So I think, while gazing critically at myself in a full-length mirror…. I have the body I want. I must, because I know how to get a different one, but I don’t do it. I like food, and sleep, and TV, and...
View ArticleAn Employer’s Market
I’ve gotten 2 separate emails today from 2 people telling me that they have gotten laid off. Two people that I respect and that are good at their chosen professions. And this is just today. My LinkedIn...
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What your car says about you and why the US auto industry is failing
The only American car I have ever owned was a hand-me-down from my mother in 1988. A brown Chrystler Laser. It was sort of fast. Handled OK. Had a plain interior. A plain exterior. Got average gas...
View ArticleNeighborhood door-to-door Felons
Two gentlemen showed up at our door tonight. According to their realistic-sounding stories, they are both felons, both from inner-city Chicago neighborhoods, grew up with no families, surrounded by...
View Article7 things you may (or may not) know about me
My good friend Stephen O’Grady has tagged me to blog about the 7 things you may or may not know about me. It’s pretty difficult to have blogged and Twittered about oneself and still have 7 things that...
View ArticleGetting Fired
I have never been laid off (yet – tomorrow is a new day). But this one time, at a crappy job, I did get fired. I was working for a start-up in Silicon Valley in the late 90s that had just gone public....
View ArticleA Day in the Life
I’ve been unemployed for a week. What have I done with my days? Updated my LinkedIn profile Called, DM’d, Facebook’d, emailed and phoned people who have been wishing me well Went to the gym Turned my...
View ArticleEverything I know about Social Media I learned from Open Source
Marketing has finally made the transition. “New marketing techniques”, social media and community development are now common job requirements as these tactics are driving more comprehensive strategies...
View ArticleAre you funding my music habit?
I have done my part in the past to support the music industry. In the early 80s I slept out on the streets of New Haven and Hartford, CT for tickets to metal bands. I bought albums and spent extra on...
View ArticleObservations Today
At the Gym I had a friend say to me once how interesting it was that you can look at a baby picture of someone and then at that same kid a few years later and you can see exactly how they got there....
View ArticleStuck in the Middle
There has been a lot of talk for as long as I can remember about women in the workplace, the low number of female leaders, unequal compensation for women, and harassment. How is this still an issue...
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