What metaphor do you use to explain blogging? at Ian’s Messy Desk
Blogging Metaphor–The Salad Bar Blog at Word Sell
My blog is a smorgasbord, come and eat… at Juggling Frogs
Feeding on Plankton at krooz
My Preferred Metaphor for Business Blogging at Business and Blogging
10 reasons why blogging is like dating at Romance Tracker
Equestrian Ecstasy – Portal to [...]
Archive for May, 2007
Follow on to Blog 101: Other Blogging Metaphors
Posted in May 31st, 2007
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Blog 101 and the New Cocktail Party
Posted in May 31st, 2007
Back in the day, one would meet interesting people at cocktail parties. We would all stand around and schmooze, drink a little or a lot, and get to know everyone.
Some people were better at it than others, of course. These people were not shy, seemed to have a natural gift of gab ability [...]
OMG! I Want This Job. Do You?
Posted in May 31st, 2007
And, other than my fear of heights and of electricity, I could do this job.
~Thanks to Robert at MiddleZoneMusings for bringing this to my attention. And, to Glumbert, a real time waster of a website…do NOT visit this site. Ok, go.
Tags: jobs you [...]
GANT Charts and Yogi Berra
Posted in May 31st, 2007
One of the earliest pieces of advice given me was to “volunteer to take notes of the meeting, because he who takes the notes, controls the meeting.” Not sure if that was particularly insightful, but it did teach me to hate meetings.
Today, it should be either “volunteer to run the projector, because that person [...]
Huge Difference Between “Be” and “Make”
Posted in May 30th, 2007
We all know that positive people are more interesting, more engaged, more fun to be around and more successful. Typically. And, they get the prettiest girls.
So be positive is what we, er, you, hear. Be positive, be positive, be positive.
The issue is not so much in understanding the ‘be positive’ outlook [...]
Ray Kurzweil, the Thomas Edison of Our Time, They Say
Posted in May 29th, 2007
There are lots of bright people in the world. Even so, my theory is that most of us are within 15 IQ points of everyone else.
Ray Kurzweil clearly isn’t. Some people think [...]
Drew Carey and People Who Hate Their Job
Posted in May 28th, 2007
“Oh, you hate your job? Why didn’t you say so? There’s a support group for that. It’s called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar.â€
~Drew Carey
Tags: hate your job, support groups, people who hate their jobs, Drew Carey, quotes
Talent Isn’t Everything
Posted in May 28th, 2007
by Chanpory Rith
Here’s a common myth: To be a successful creative professional, all you need is talent. It’s a nice myth to believe in. “Talent†suggests a divine or evolutionary genetic gift, so if you’re blessed with the [...]
An Awesome Gift for The Graduate
Posted in May 25th, 2007
No Wrapping Required…(from ME Strauss at Successful Blog}
If you’re a parent, you know . . . that the best advice your graduate will get could be your ideas and your experience expressed in someone else’s words.
If you’ve had experience beyond school, you know . . . that those share what they learned about [...]
You Have 30 Seconds: A Glimpse and a Hook
Posted in May 25th, 2007
The following was written by a tech manager in his blog Rands in Repose. He gets hundreds of resumes.
A Glimpse and a Hook
The terrifying reality regarding your resume is that for all the many hours you put into fine-tuning, you’ve got 30 seconds to make an impression on me. Maybe less.
It’s unfair, it’s [...]
