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June 2010

The Bloggers Topic Dilemma

June 15, 2010

Every (not most) blogger I know struggles with the topic dilemma. Do I write the short, raw, shoot from the hip post? Or, do I take the time and write something deep, thoughtful and potentially game changing? The later post style will probably bring us business and potentially put food on the table. Balance and [...]

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Stop Asking for Permission

June 14, 2010

For the past few weeks I’ve watched entrepreneurs I consider more successful to see what they are doing differently than me. The answer that hit me, they seldom ask for permission. They get more things done quicker. One of the ways you get things done is to following the old saying “it’s easier to beg [...]

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I’m a Blackberry Addict turned Android Fanatic

June 12, 2010

Sprint’s new htc EVO Android mobile device is now my favorite personal accessory. My Blackberry Curve 8330 sits deactivated, lonely and dejected on the back of my desk. My smartphone love affair began many years ago with a Treo600. I graduated to a Treo 755p and then the Blackberry Curve 8330. Along the way I [...]

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The Twitter Vacation

June 11, 2010

It’s the opposite of what you think, we are going to tweet….a lot. Tight budgets, saving money, kids in college, etc. have combined to create our Twitter vacation. Roots of the idea. We (@hawtwife and I) decided to be fiscally responsible (unlike our village who is replacing roads unnecessarily but that’s another story) and cancel [...]

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Keep After Your Masterpieces

June 10, 2010

Yesterday, while working on an ebook for my ColorMetrix audience the one useful piece of information it will leave them with finally jumped out and bit me. Your masterpieces will take longer. The actual writing of a blog post rarely takes me more than and hour and is quite often done in 20 or 30 [...]

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Play Nice With Others

June 9, 2010

This was the title of my third slide for a recent presentation. “Play nice with others” ended up being the one thing I left my audience with. Play nice with others. In the context of my presentation referred to ColorMetrix software products being interoperable with other “competitive” products. I was sharing the podium with seven [...]

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reThink and unThink to Achieve WordPress Like Success

June 8, 2010

Matt Mullenweg’s success with WordPress has convinced me to unThink “it can’t be done.” In 2003 Matt (as founding developer) released WordPress which is the platform this web-site and about 202 million others run on. (No I didn’t make that number up, it’s in the linked Wikipedia article). Matt was in his late teens when [...]

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What’s the Right Amount of Blogging?

June 7, 2010

If you are a blogger, this topic is bound to catch a little corner of your brain every now and then. It’s also one of those questions that if you asked 10 bloggers you’d get 11 answers. There is no right amount of blogging. There just isn’t. I try like heck to post once a [...]

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Social Media & Business Lessons From a Jewel Concert

June 4, 2010

Last night I had the pleasure of attending a Jewel concert with my wife. Here’s the three things I learned from Jewel last night after she made sure we knew her Twitter handle @jeweljk. 1. The power of your story. Last night it was just Jewel and her Guitar. Between songs she told the stories [...]

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Stop Thinking and Ship it Baby!

June 1, 2010

Last night while watching a mindless episode of tosh.0 with my family I grabbed my MacBook and wrote the previous post Watch Your Thoughts. It took about 20 minutes and about half my attention was devoted to writing the post. You don’t know what will resonate. I stopped thinking and started writing the post. I [...]

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