Book Review – Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff
I don’t usually post my book reviews on my blog, but this was such a great book for business that I wanted to share it here as well… Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff Wow. They get it. I’ve read various articles and blogs and books [...]
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TweetCamp San Antonio at GeekGyrls.com
I know this poor blog is a bit neglected, working on that soon – promise… make sure to stop by GeekGyrls.com and see the post I put up today about my trip to TweetCamp San Antonio. Many thanks to the organizers for putting on a fantastic event!
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More People Working Remotely.
Accountingweb.com has an interesting article on the rise of “telework”. With the rise in gas prices and many other factors, the number of employees in the United States working remotely rose frome 12.4 million in 2006 to 17.2 million in 2008. While these aren’t all full-time teleworkers, they do all work remotely at least 1 [...]
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Sharing the pie with the competition.
I have a theory about Americans. From the day we are born we are taught to compete: We are taught to do more than our parents. We are pushed to be the best at sports, academics, or music (or all of the above). We are even taught to strive for more than our siblings. So [...]
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Is what you are doing really networking?
“Friend me!” “Bkkper02 would like to add you to their network.” “CrazySocialGrl101 was sent you a friend request.” Do these sound familiar? With the rise of online social networks, the term “Networking” has become nebulous. The time of building your business network through hardwork and lots of hand shaking is a thing of the past…. [...]
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How to mess up a good thing.
For those of us in the Virtual Assistant industry, working remotely has become simply a fact of life. But how can other companies learn from our example? There are a few key areas where larger companies get the basics wrong: 1.) They are in too big of a hurry.2.) They spend too much on technology.3.) [...]
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Do you leave your computer on at night?
If you are like me, the first thing you do in the morning is sit down at the computer and check out the news, or your RSS feeds, or hit the Stumble Button a few times. Do you really want to wait 2 or 3 minutes while your computer starts up? If you are still [...]
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Vendor-Client Relationship In Real World Terms
Thanks to Nina Feldman for showing this to me. This is awesome. I should make all new prospects watch it [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2a8TRSgzZY]
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My Dirty Little Secret….
My dirty little secret is that I am not actually perfect. I make mistakes, I screw up. More than once in the past six years, I have had to email or call a client and tell them the problem and present them with a solution (and that last part is important, if I have a [...]
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Staying Motivated During Start-up
I just read an interesting article over at Inc.com. We’ve all heard reasons why businesses fail: poor economy, too much competition, the secretary was faxing out bids on the shredder. You know, all those “read reasons” that businesses fail. But Jessica Livingston at Y Combinator has a different take on the reason start-ups fail,”They all [...]
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