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200: The State of My Site

Posted on 15. Jul, 2010
Categories: Announcements, Random Thoughts

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Today, I hit the 200 post mark. It’s time to take a look back and a look forward.

Old School: Companies That Still Just Don’t Get It

Posted on 28. Jun, 2010
Categories: Random Thoughts, Social Media

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It’s just amazing to me that a company can operate like this in today’s day and age. Yes, Verizon, I’m talking about you.

How To Manage Divas

Posted on 16. May, 2010
Categories: Management, Sports

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How do you manage high-maintenance folks? In this post, I look at divas in all of their glory.

Five Sites I Can’t Live Without

Posted on 14. May, 2010
Categories: Random Thoughts

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The web is a really big place with oodles of neat and über usefl sites. Here are my top five these days.

Methland by Nick Reding

Posted on 30. Apr, 2010
Categories: Book Reviews, Random Thoughts

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In a completely unrelated post (to my content on my site), I review a book about the meth epidemic in the United States.

Visualize Your Blog

Posted on 21. Apr, 2010
Categories: Random Thoughts

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Check out this tool from Wordle. In a nutshell, you can enter your site’s or blog’s URL and Wordle will present an image of the commonly used keywords.

Five Simple Cures for Writer’s Block

Posted on 07. Jan, 2010
Categories: Misc. Writing, Movies

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In my last post of the year, I offer five simple solutions for writer’s block. When I’m stuck on something, I’ll head to my sanctuary, call on my inner demons, increase my inputs, abandon a topic altogether, or seek one of my muses for additional inspiration. See if these tips can work for you.

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Eating the Dinosaur

Posted on 22. Dec, 2009
Categories: Book Reviews, Movies

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I often take a much needed respites from the world of technology, even though I consider myself a “tech boy” and proselytize the benefits of new toys and applications. Along these lines, I recently engulfed Eating the Dinosaur by Chuck Klosterman, a collection of twelve disparate essays about a wide range of topics from pop culture to (of course) technology.

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Random Thoughts: Week of 10/04/09

Posted on 04. Oct, 2009
Categories: Random Thoughts

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Amazon rankings, Tori Spelling, and Putt’s Law.

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Social Networking, Miller’s Crossing, and Running Things

Posted on 27. Aug, 2009
Categories: Enterprise 2.0, Movies, Project Management, Social Media

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Social networking not like network security or enterprise risk management, two topics that have evolved quite a bit over the last twenty years. Social networking is a relatively new phenomenon and I am old enough to have essentially watched it evolve in front of my eyes.