Building Revenue Through Connection and Collaboration

Image by luc legay via Flickr A few weeks ago, I wrote a post called Business Development in Today’s Economy about the 4 Cs. Connection, Collaboration, Clients and Criteria. For this article I’m revisiting Connection and Collaboration, because they are so closely intertwined. Connection, as discussed earlier, is about reaching out not only to clients, […]

Best Thing Since Sliced Bread

Image by Rico-san via Flickr I was recently introduced by a friend and former colleague to Ted Talks. I had always known about the conference, but not that they were hosting all of the talks via video on their site. I was amazed and so excited by it. So, I went and took a look. […]

Nielsen: Social Networking Overtakes E-mail in Popularity

Image via Wikipedia Yeah, I know, I’m behind in talking about this announcement that Nielsen made oh, like 24 hours ago. It’s like a lifetime in the digital stratosphere. This is about Social Networking overtaking email. I read that headline and I thought, “Wow”. And then my follow-up thought was “That’s no surprise!”. There are […]

Newspapers Getting Smarter – Taking it Local

Image via CrunchBase Now, we’re starting to see some smart things happening in Media. But unfortunately for the San Francisco Chronicle and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, it may be a too little too late. However, one of my favorite iconic newspapers, The New York Times, is finally getting smart. From my local Brooklyn blog, Brownstoner, it […]

Who says you’re not creative?

I’ve been in the business world for the past 16 years – but I graduated from college 1 year younger than my classmates, so you do the math. My POV is that by your mid-30s we are all segmented into professions, with titles, that are supposed to mean something. We are evaluated on what that […]