Oct
9
October 9, 2008 – 7:58 am
There is an interesting e-book over at ChangeThis, I Am The Walrus: Lessons In Personal Branding from The Beatles. The e-book is built around a Beatles record, giving lessons in personal branding along the way.
The authors post about the e-book at their blog, ChangeThis Manifesto “I Am The Walrus” Released!.
The possibility of finding and spreading [...]
Jun
25
Bootstrapping means starting a business without external investors or debt finance. Seth Godin has written a book about this. Over at ChangeThis is a version available as ebook, The Bootstrapper’s Bible. I have re-read my copy and in the book is a great explanation of entrepreneur and freelancer.
A freelancer sells her talents. While she may [...]
Apr
10
April 10, 2008 – 11:57 am
Over at ChangeThis is a free eBook about The New Rules of Viral Marketing: How Word-of-Mouse Spreads Your Ideas for Free.
For decades, the only way to spread our ideas was to buy expensive advertising or beg the media to write (or broadcast) about our products and services. But now our organizations have a tremendous opportunity [...]
Mar
9
I found Questionating over at ChangeThis. This manifesto pushes the concept of QuestionBanks, using sets of question as tools in meetings, projects etc.
What’s your favorite question? Over the years we’ve found that the most popular answers to this question are ‘why,’ ‘how,’ and ‘why not’ in that order. A trend we’ve also observed is that [...]
Nov
15
November 15, 2007 – 5:48 pm
This bunch of links are all about being or becoming (more) creative.
The first link is 5 Ways to Enhance Your Creativity at Problogger. The fifth one, record your ideas, is important. Always (well almost always..) have something around so you can make some notes when brilliance strikes.
The second link is over at ChangeThis, Hugh McLeod [...]
Jan
31
January 31, 2007 – 9:35 am
Josh Kaufman has a very interesting concept called The Personal MBA. It is available as a PDF-file over at ChangeThis. The introduction goes like this:
Business schools don’t have a monopoly on worldly wisdom. If you care more about increasing your effectiveness at work than a diploma and a few lines on your resume, the Personal [...]
Jan
14
January 14, 2007 – 9:10 pm
Larry Winget has written a manifesto called You are Being Lied To and Other Truths over at ChangeThis. It is time well spent to read the dozen pages. Larry writes this about himself:
All I am really an expert at is being stupid and learning from it….I have become an expert at not making the same [...]
Dec
8
December 8, 2006 – 3:05 pm
Web 2.0 is a buzz word, there are many opinions about what is required for a site to be called Web 2.0. A good place to learn more is over at Wikipedia.
Adaptive Path has a great article called Experience Attributes: Crucial DNA of Web 2.0. There is a PDF called What put the 2 [...]
Nov
12
November 12, 2006 – 2:54 pm
I found a very interesting document over at ChangeThis, Lessons from a Starfish World written by Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstrom.
Summary:
Such seemingly dissimilar groups as the Apache Indians, music swapping programs, Wikipedia, Alcoholics Anonymous and Al Queda have one thing in common: they are all starfish. According to Brafman and Beckstrom, each of these resilient [...]
Aug
13
August 13, 2006 – 9:07 pm
Guy Kawasaki, a former Apple Fellow and entrepreneur extraordinaire, talks about up-starting a start-up. In a preview from his book, “The Art of the Start” Guy encourages entrepreneurs to make meaning, make mantra, and get going. According to Kawasaki, some examples of making ‘meaning’ are: make the world a better place, increase the quality of [...]
