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The Trouble With Chasing What’s Next

I touched on this a bit yesterday, but I wanted to talk a little more about the idea of constantly chasing “what’s next”. It comes up at every conference session, in every customer or client meeting. Folks asking “Who’s the next Chris Brogan or Gary Vaynerchuck?” or “What’s the next Read more »

The Social Media Ego Threat

Information hoarders are an endangered species. It’s not enough to know something anymore, because the internet knows it, too. If you don’t share it, someone, somewhere, will. Your value to a company is no longer your tribal knowledge, because knowledge is currency now, and it’s traded on a massive free Read more »

What’s Left Without The Tools

It’s not about the tools. We all know this, right? We say it all the time. But what do we mean? If we strip out the tools and look at function over form, what do we find? We start to get at the reasons behind using the tools. The potential Read more »

Are We Really Just “Students”?

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When I was in corporate America, I didn’t take on a new skill – say, direct mail fundraising – and say I was a “student” of fundraising. I was learning, but I was a professional. I was a professional honing a new skill, which – if we’re doing it right Read more »