Seth Godin linked to an incredible video that you should really go watch right now. You need the sound on, because the video is a bit of a test, but as Godin points out, it's okay to watch this at work. I had seen a diff ...

The “Eight Things” meme is going around the blogosphere (more specifically the blogoclump), where bloggers shed a little light on their personalities or personal life. Ben Martin has tagged me in this go-round. I was tag ...

This may be a purely innocent misunderstanding, but I went on to Amazon.com today to try and order a book (that I am going to give away at my upcoming Great Ideas session). The book is several years old. When I searched ...

New blogger Maddie Grant (Ben: too early to start thinking about Rookie of the Year, and other awards?) has two outstanding quotes from her last two posts. One of her own writing and one from another blog. First her own, ...

With the recent discussion of the evils of PowerPoint among association bloggers (Mickie, Mickie, and Dave) I thought it was interesting that Seth Godin did a post on his blog recently about how NOT to present data and c ...

In my “Lessons Learned” post from a few days ago, I buried a link in one of the paragraphs to a cool Squidoo lens that Seth Godin created called the Encyclopedia of Business Cliches (Sue Pelletier pointed to it as well). ...

In my “Lessons Learned” post from a few days ago, I buried a link in one of the paragraphs to a cool Squidoo lens that Seth Godin created called the Encyclopedia of Business Cliches (Sue Pelletier pointed to it as well). ...

For those of you out there who hire speakers for your events, I found an interesting post by Shel Israel (author, with Robert Scoble, of Naked Conversations) about how HIS success as a keynote speaker was in large part a ...

David Gammel posted a wise (and laugh-out-loud) comment on one of BMart's recent posts. Ben wrote up a great primer for new bloggers to the 'clump on how to be, well, actually PART of the 'clump. Bottom line: read what o ...

I will be in Japan this week, visiting my brother who is a permanent resident there (he is a university professor at Keio University in Yokohama). So don't expect too many blog posts. Although depending on my internet ac ...