Month: April 2011
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What’s In A Name?
At the turn of the year, LinkedIn released the results of an analysis of over 85 million profiles looking for the most commonly used words and phrases. I will spare you the full results (you may remember the post from the twitter love it got at the time), but suffice to say that if you've…
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Easter Blogging Break
Lordy, it's been a tad busy of late. So I'm taking a short blogging break over Easter, but normal service will be resumed before you know it. Happy Easter everyone. Don't eat too much chocolate.
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Born Of Frustration
I loved this short little film featuring the founders of the awesome Soundcloud talking about the inspiration behind the launch of their service. Like so many great things it seems, it was born out of sheer frustration, and powered by a desire and a passion to want to make things better. Frustration can be a…
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What’s So Wrong With Hierarchy?
Here's a scenario. The CEO of your company needs to do a big review presentation to shareholders/analysts/investors/holding company bigwigs. So they brief 5 of their direct reports asking for contributions to help put it together, your boss being one. Those 5 people are good at managing upwards. It's one of the things that has helped…
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Humility
Fred Wilson tells the story in this extraordinary post of how his investment company, Union Square Ventures, missed the opportunity to invest in Airbnb, one of my favourite peer-to-peers. At the time, the founders had ideas but the service was still a marketplace for air mattresses on people's floors. It was, he says, the classic…
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Post Of The Month – March 2011 – The Winner
Somewhat of a two horse race in this month's vote between two worthy contenders – Austin Kleon's How To Steal Like An Artist (And 9 Other Things Nobody Told Me), and Mark Pollard on How To Explain An Idea . But in the end it was the latter that won through so well done Mark…
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Post Of The Month – March 2011 – The Vote
Thanks for the nominations everyone. Our vote this month is between: How To Steal Like An Artist (And 9 Other Things Nobody Told Me) by Austin Kleon How To Explain An Idea by Mark Pollard The King Is Dead from Alex Bogusky The Satisfaction Paradox from Kevin Kelly Compared To Perfect: The Price/Value Mismatch In Content by Seth…
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Post Of The Month – March 2011 – Nominations
Time to open up nominations for Post Of The Month for March. So please nominate any favourite posts that you have read and that were posted in the month of March in the comments below. As usual, I've listed a few starters below – once I have a good selection I'll stick them all up…
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Shorter, And Sweeter
It's quite amazing witnessing the rate of innovation in the publishing industry right now, much of it (it has to be said) coming from new entrants, challengers, entrepreneurs rather than incumbent organisations. Unlike many it seems, I don't subscribe to the view that the dawn of a disruptive new model or technology inevitably means the…