WHAT I WRITE ABOUT: ‘Social Networking’

Hiding in the shadows can be a compelling image.  It suggests a cunning and opportunistic position.  Ready to strike. Rambo did it in First Blood.  His eyes darting left and right out of the rain-drenched mud Trap door spiders do it for hours.  Waiting for the right vibration to crash up and snatch their prize [...]

This is a guest post by Joe Hanson. In the 1840s, temperature controlled ovens and baking powder changed the cake baking game forever. Cakes went from being purely a delicious treat to an art form. Baking a cake is both an art and a science, requiring aesthetics, balance, and detail. When you’re finished putting together [...]

Industry associations are a job seeker’s best friend—or at least they should be. This is a guest post by Kelly Donovan. There are thousands of associations that cater to professionals in virtually every industry, from the American Society of Civil Engineers to the American Marketing Association. Name a profession and it probably has a group, [...]

I shared this math equation in a blog post over on Fix, Build And Drive (my marketing blog) a while back. I included it in a post on the formula for growing a service based business. You can read the whole post there, but here are a few snippets: Anything you want to accomplish in [...]

These weren’t easy decisions. But I had to make them. I decided to stop using a number of social media applications. I’ll tell you why below. Mike Brown of Brainzooming wrote a post once illustrating his own struggle with the questions of how to keep up with social media and its platforms. Back in 2010. [...]

I don’t usually use bad language. Of course, every once in a while I slip up just like you. But not in this case. This time the language came from an MBA student I was meeting with last week who had a bad impression about networking. Not social networking where we hang out online and [...]

I’m sorry, but I think things are getting a bit out of hand. Our social credibility is on the line here. Is there anything we can’t like in the world anymore? Is getting our minimum engagement so important that a like button has to be added to everything on every online platform? And won’t there [...]