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Recently stumbled upon an article by the late Kurt Vonnegut on How to Write With Style, his key points in summary are: 1. Find a subject you care about 2. Do not ramble 3. Keep it simple 4. Have guts to cut 5. Sound like yourself 6. Say what you
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I've heard lots of discussion about web 2.0 lately in business circles. I've also had debates about putting user generated content (UGC) on corporate web sites. What makes me stop and think is the gap between web 2.0 as a bottom up democratic and
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Finding Godchecker to be an amusing site - so many interesting deities
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At the recent KLA (a.k.a. Knowledge Liberation Army) meeting in Sydney we discussed the benefits and utility of social network analysis (SNA). Apart from a moment of interest when you see the network map, what is it useful for in a business setting? My theory is that it
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Guy Kawasaki :: Presentation Slides Best tips on start ups and pitches I've seen from Guy Kawasaki at Garage. His prescription for entrepreneurs: 1. Make meaning. Improve the quality of life, right a wrong or prevent the end of something good. (“If you make meaning you will make money.
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Been talking to some people who are into using TRIZ for innovation in their businesses - not sure I completely understand this tool so plan to research it further.
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On the Slate website Hart Seely has collected some of the truly classic poems of our time - they are taken from briefings listed on the Dept of Defense website. The Unknown As we know, There are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know There are
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I have seen many young, fit, intelligent people with a fine education, sound values and good family behind them. But they do not realise that what they make of them every day from now is up to them. Many people with those advantages do nothing with their lives. It is
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Trevor over at Corporate Engagement is on his soapbox over some of the more self-important (and possibly self-delusional) bloggers around the recent Dell fracas. He coins the the term 'blugged' - which is a good one - for the phenomenon. He makes a good point about some of
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This is a link to Jeff Jarvis' BuzzMachine: Dell Hell Archives
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Now this may seem like a crazy sort of thing to say - but it is true that I'm learning many spiritual lessons from my dog. Not that I'm claiming that Trotsky (that's my dog, not the dead Russian politician) actually speaks to me. But
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Kate over at smalldeadnimals comments: "I speak as a woman who has worked in a male work setting for all of my adult life. I can say with some authority that the time has come to dismantle organized feminism." She raises some interesting points in her post small