The Latest Blog Entries
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More on the Attention Marketplace
How effectively are you handling email? Your company? If you were asked to assign a value to each email you send, would it make a difference?
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Four Weeks to Courage Power Passion for Women!
Wondering what to do on June 17th? Come hang with us!
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Being and Nothingness in the Schoolyard
The dust up between TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington and Wired’s Betsy Schiffman highlights the dangers of drinking too deep from the digital Kool-Aid.
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So Much to Say
We’re behind on the blog, but that’s nothing compared to behind bars.
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A Game of Marbles
“The blogosphere” as a construct assumes a globalism that simply doesn’t exist. Better to say “the blogospheres” and recognize the continued influence of variant cultures.
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Social Networking as Critique - Don't be WaMu
Never mind the financial issues, WaMuWhooHoo is a bigger problem for Washington Mutual at the customer level.
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Sock on Sock Violence
The rationalizations we apply to office behavior need to pass the Occam’s razor test.
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Sometimes, It's Like This
The morning sun rose like a canker in the sky as Brett Effective stumbled from sleep in a haze of recrimination and dark portents.
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Remembering the Middle
It just takes some time,
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Return on Influence - Best Metric Ever
The social net has everyone abuzz, but how to approach it? Chris Brogan and Julien Smith have written a handy guide to corporations wanting to enter the space.
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EASCI is on Twitter!
We’re walking the walk. Follow us!
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A Healthy Dose of Sprouts.
Sprout is now in open beta. Want to make engaging widgets in minutes? I thought you might…
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Social Networking - Now It's Getting Personal
Randy ponders the meaning of Sarah Lacy’s Twitter-fueled debacle at SXSW. Are we ready for an audience that is ready for us?
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CPP Comes to Portland!
Save the Date - EASCI is hosting a seminar Courage Power Passion for Women in our awesome new space in Portland on June 17, 2008!
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Strategic Planning
Check out CEO Randy Harrington’s latest podcast.
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Neither Meerschaum nor Galvanized.
Yahoo! Pipes offers the easiest entry into the wonderful world of news filtering. Join the mashup.
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Water Cooler 2.0
In the beginning there was telephone…telegraph…smoke signals. It’s all talk, and it’s all useful.
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Diverse Literacies
The YouTube generation is adding questions to the classic journalism model of “who what where when why.” What are you doing about “what I think,” “what I did,” and “what matters” as you craft messages for public consumption?
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Strategic Planning Season is Just Around the Corner
Extreme Arts & Sciences is pleased to introduce a revolutionary method in strategic planning which allows our clients to vision farther into the future than they ever dreamed possible. Our new method of strategic planning gives our clients the strategy, certainty, and action that allow them to accomplish bold moves that payoff in major ways.
In the name of “nimbleness” “change …
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Thinking in the Courtroom
Even though we all try to make rational, fair and unbiased decisions and judgments, our thinking processes are often influenced by strong and powerful unconscious factors. However, once we understand how these factors work, we can craft our message to our audience much more effectively and we can protect ourselves from being victims of those biases.
1. Anchor effects: It …
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Considerations of a National Branding Effort
A challenge for credit union opinion leaders to galvanize around a bold and responsive vision for the future that keeps cooperative values front and center—while remaining vital and relevant to American citizens.
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A Managerial Boost
“My Manager is My World,” one employee scrawled across a twelve question survey conducted by the Human Resources Department under the direction of the Executive Team at a large financial institution where I was working as a middle manager a few years ago. It was this employee’s way of telling us that all of the carefully constructed questions on …
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Mental Accounting: Take A Hard Look At Your Members
What is the difference between 50 Dollars and 50 Dollars? Right, there is no difference. Or maybe there is? In a recent study two groups of subjects were asked whether or not they would be willing to buy tickets for a play. One group was told that they had spent $50 earlier in the week to see a basketball game …
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Courage, Power, Passion: Women Have It All
Talk to American HR experts and they’ll confirm that the vast majority of executives are conflict-averse. Experts estimate the number of the avoidant in times of conflict to be about 80 percent. Notably, most of the HR professionals also agreed that American female executives are more courageous in approaching conflict than their male counterparts. But, women often lack the …
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Wisdom from Abroad
I was taking in the sunshine on the bow of the Star Ferry moving right-on-time from Hong Kong to Kowloon. After a brief conversation about the weather I discovered that the man standing next to me—a Mr. Liu—was a government minister from Beijing on holiday. I asked about the explosive growth we were seeing in Hong Kong and …