July 2010
47 posts
“All of that is a long way of saying I see a lot of value in the sharing of...”
– Stalked? Not Really: Noah Brier Responds
Dear Friends [NOLAlicious], →
Kat Stromquist, wrapping up her summer with NOLAlicious, with a fantastic farewell:
Dear Friends,
We hope your air conditioning is working, or that you’ve equipped your yard with a kiddie pool – we can’t remember the last day there wasn’t a “heat advisory!” With six more weeks or so of NOLA summer, it’s important to hang in there and remember that the seasons will...
Peering Over, Luray, Virginia →
Peering over, cutting through the fog. That’s what I’m #thankfulfor today.
Peering over, Shenandoah National Park, Luray, Virginia
A couple things I’ve enjoyed lately:
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Transcript for #kaizenblog "Ignore Failure at Your... →
That was hard.
Ignore Failure at Your Own Peril →
“Ignore Failure at Your Own Peril” is the topic of this week’s #kaizenblog chat, hosted by Valeria Maltoni (@conversationage) and Elli St. George – Godfrey (@3keyscoach), which I’ll be…
CitizenGulf’s National Day of Action, August 25 →
Announcing CitizenGulf’s National Day of Action on August 25th, promoted by Gulf Coast Benefit, celebrating the 5th anniversary of Katrina with benefits nationwide to help provide educational…
“We put ourselves through it because we are promised times when perfection smiles...”
– Sweet Spot « GameChangers by @Bonifer
whitneymcn on tumblr: letter -> me →
Hi there -
You may remember the pleasure of finding a handwritten, personal postcard or letter amongst the bills and junk that fill your mailbox. Or you may not, which is sad.
I’ve read that email newsletters may be the new blogs, so who’s to say that postal mail isn’t already the new email…
Always time for an adventure →
The right time and place for a photo shoot? Any time. Any place. Any adventure.
The right time and place, Washington, DC
Taken from an adventure at The Newseum.
Inside and Outside →
#Thankfulfor the Mimslyn Inn, sun and a rocking Monday full of opportunities. More later.
Inside and Outside, Luray, Virginia
Aligning the outside and the inside. Loving the …
Ze Frank Gets $500,000 To Play Games From... →
Stoked.
“It’s my hunch, like yours I suppose, that betterment without recognition...”
– Matt, commenting on Marketing by Encouraging | Taylor Davidson (@tdavidson):
“It’s my hunch, like yours I suppose, that betterment without recognition isn’t that motivating.” (link)
Me:
Or at least it’s not motivating to enough people to make the expense on the...
“Misallocating capital takes markets a couple of years, as...”
– Umair Haque / Bubblegeneration
Improving Health Together Challenge →
Keas is a platform where anyone can write ‘care plans’–essentially applications that reason off people’s medical data, health habits, and questionnaire answers. With a little bit of programming background (and ideally some lifestyle or medical expertise), you can write plans that send texts to remind users to take their medications, give them tailored feedback on how much they’ve been exercising,...
One small ask →
Do something to help people give back. Submit an idea to Pepsi’s Do Good for the Gulf project as part of their Refresh Project. Oil spill opportunism? Hardly. Just smart business, and a great way to give back at the same time. Create an idea, and submit your good idea for the Gulf by Friday. If I did (and I did), you certainly can too.
Open, New Orleans, Louisiana
The doors are open. Go...
The Guardian's News Feed plugin for WordPress |... →
Instead of creating a paywall, The @Guardian newspaper in the UK creates a “free story syndication tool” i.e. a Wordpress plugin that taps into The Guardian’s Open Platform and makes is super simple to repost content from The Guardian. Rocking.
Marketing by Encouraging →
Marketing by encouraging, rewarding and acknowledging people for their actions. Smart, right?
San Fermin in Nueva Orleans with the @NOLAbulls, New Orleans, LA. Reblogged from NOLAlicious.
Love: Site helps businesses reward consumers for positive acations:
… Bolder works with businesses to sponsor a different challenge each week.
California-based Bolder teams up with businesses to challenge...
The Uncertain Economic Impact of the Gulf Oil... →
Economies, communities, lives, all shattered by the Gulf oil spill. But how? And how are we responding? What are we building?
Nobody doubts the impact of the Gulf Oil Spill on the people, wildlife and wetlands of the Gulf. Devastating. Life-shattering to thousands of people right now, for years, and for some, forever.
That we know. But we’re a little uncertain of exactly how much, for how...
“Lots of people can name it. The proving it is what you get paid for.”
– Funding the Gap between Purpose and Profit | Taylor Davidson (@tdavidson)
““You don’t hear one fisherman complain about BP around here, not...”
– In Louisiana, oil spill’s economic impact is muted – so far - Page 3 - Los Angeles Times
Funding the Gap between Purpose and Profit →
Building on Why we create for free (and why it’s hard to get paid), leveraging @Julien’s perfect how-to counter-point, and thinking about how we fund the gap between purpose and profit with sweat and tears.
Alone in Public, Charlottesville, Virginia, June 2010
So, a couple weeks ago I posted a quick riff about why it’s hard to get paid for what we do for free. Based on the response, it appears...
Fake work, make work, real work →
What’s the difference between fake work, make work and real work? Among a lot of things, purpose. To be continued, when blogging about it supports real work.
Apart, New Orleans,…
“I think our toughest decisions are actually between contentment and...”
– Lesson from LeBron James: How to decide when to relocate | Penelope Trunk’s Brazen Careerist
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“The Pepsi Refresh Project is coming to the Gulf. It’s called “Pepsi Refresh...”
– #PepsiRefresh Everything Hits The Gulf - @NOLAlicious Special 03
“The city has also been wasting money, said Landrieu — spending over $50,000 to...”
– Yep, that’s New Orleans.
Best Of New Orleans Blog » Blog Archive » Mayor Landrieu Faces $67 Million Budget Deficit With “Eyes Wide Open”
“if we want a new wave of entrepreneurship and investment to seed...”
– Real Prosperity Doesn’t Come From Stimulus — Or Austerity - Umair Haque - Harvard Business Review
Rocking the Gulf Oil Spill, New Orleans, Louisiana →
Photos from the Gulf Coast Benefit Concert in New Orleans, supporting the Gulf Restoration Network. A great turnout for a great cause. Let’s continue to #RocktheSpill in all our ways.
Rotary Downs at @GulfBenefit, Tipitina’s, New Orleans, LA
Outside Tipitina’s for @GulfBenefit, New Orleans, LA
Galactic at @GulfBenefit, Tipitina’s, New Orleans, LA
Young Fellaz Brass Band at @GulfBenefit,...
Where we are, in Linchpin Magazine →
My contribution to Linchpin Magazine. Buy your copy of Linchpin Magazine on MagCloud; use the code “LINCHPIN” to save 25%. 100% of the proceeds go to the selected charity partner, Seeducation.
Way to Go, Richmond, Virginia
My contribution to Linchpin Magazine, about Workspaces:
I first met Kenny at a coffee shop in Dublin, Ireland, a combination of an introduction through a good friend and...
Clay Shirky: Paywall will underperform – the...
entrepreneuradvocate:
“And to put it in one bleak sentence, no medium has ever survived the indifference of 25-year-olds.”
Read the post @ The Guardian
“In the end, we are our choices. Build yourself a great story.”
– Jeff Bezos, founder, Amazon.com - 2010 Baccalaureate remarks (via kareem)
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How the Gulf Coast Benefit is Using Social Media... →
There’s a great case study here, waiting to be compiled, once the concerts are over tonight.
Nic Adler: Gulf Coast Benefits July 1st Unite Us... →