I get asked how to follow MiPro on Twitter, and for that I have several answers. @mipro – our main Twitter account for all of MIPRO Consulting. This is where I route most of our commentary, discussion and blog post announcements. @jmicallef – One of MiPro’s founding partners. @japrokes – Another one of MiPro’s founding
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Read More...BNET’s Drew Kerr: Well-written press releases have lost much of their power to generate actual news coverage. Journalists suffering from information overload rarely have the time to slog through the number of pitches they receive daily, so publicists bank on their relationships with them to get coverage. If press releases have any potency now, it
Read More...Go figure: focusing on a dozen things poorly, running from fragmented job to fragmented job, trying to shift mindsets from tactical to strategic and struggling to figure out where you left a certain task might have long-term negative effects. After jumping through the mental hoops, the researchers found that the heavy multimedia users were at
Read More...Thought-provoking and spot-on post by Amber Riviere over at Web Worker Daily: Yesterday, I read the “Unconventional Guide to the Social Web,” and although I found a lot of useful information in it, one quote has stuck with me since reading it: “Your blog is your mothership. Don’t neglect it for lesser tools.” This is
Read More...The crew at 37signals has a book coming on March 9, 2010, and I’ve already pre-ordered it through Amazon. Front Back Pretty lively discussion going on over at SvN about the design, too.
Read More...I didn’t become a math and science nerd until later in life, which means my early attempts at grokking my multiplication tables were laughable. In third grade, Mr. Turnquist – easily the best teacher I had in all of my elementary school years – began drilling the “times tables” into us, thinking that our third-grade
Read More...AdAge’s Darryl Ohrt articulates a work schedule reality many management teams and HR departments are trying to rationalize: Entrepreneurs, senior executives and serious career employees have known for a long time that the “work day” is all day — and all night. (And if you’re doing what you love, it isn’t work at all.) Meanwhile,
Read More...Vinnie Mirchandani correctly notes that in the recent ZDNet 100 Technology Experts on Twitter list, there’s not one big-name, mainstream corporate CIO among them. While this is certainly true, three thoughts come to mind. 1. There is a CIO on ZDNet’s list (#50, Scott Lowe), but I don’t think that meets the mainstream corporate CIO
Read More...Seeing how I’m taking my son camping and hunting with his best hunting flashlight for his first time this weekend, I must spare you the long, rambling anecdote about my childhood meddling and cut right to the very best things on the Internet this week. First, a review of the best commencement speech ever given.
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