This is a continuing series of posts by Speakers for speakers. If you are currently a speaker and looking to improve, if you are an aspiring speaker and worried about the mistakes that others make this is the series for you. Each Wednesday a speaker who I value will share their thoughts on how speakers [...]
January 31, 2012 By
Buddy Can You Spare A Dime? The Rise of Micro-Investing
Micro-Investing is providing those of us without the funds to become Venture Capitalists or Angel investors the opportunity to experience the thrill of investing without the risks. The model is somewhat similar to that employed by charities for years. A small amount multiplied many times equals a much larger amount. So instead of seeking thousands [...]
January 25, 2012 By
Check Your Hair, Make Sure Your Mic Is On – Speaking Is About More Than Speaking
This week sees the kick off of this new series of posts about speaking written by speakers that I know do a great job. I intend this series to be of interest to those who are already speakers, those looking to get better at speaking and to those who aspire to speak in public. [...]
January 24, 2012 By
Waiting To Write
Waiting to write makes you a waiter not a writer, the sage advice from Somerset Maugham. It is advice I give myself regularly and have shared with many others, both privately and publicly. There exists a strange new beast in the creative world, the content scientist. These people can tell you how many times a [...]
January 19, 2012 By
Check Your Hair, Make Sure Your Mic Is On – The Series
Check Your Hair, Make Sure Your Mic Is On is the title of a post I wrote a few weeks ago in which I talk about the importance of appearance for speakers. In talking with new, aspiring and even existing speakers it seems people would like to read more of the same. Rather than simply share my [...]
January 17, 2012 By
Will Social Content Kill the Social Network?
Last week I wrote about the Three Types of Social Content. I want to extend that conversation by looking at how the use of Social Content is killing Social Networks. Consider your own Social Network streams, whether it is Twitter, Facebook, Google Plus – I’d place a bet that most of what you see is [...]
January 11, 2012 By
The Three C’s Of Social Content – Which One Are You?
The Three C’s of Social Content – Creation, Curation and Cultivation. In looking at online content, particularly that shared on social networks I’ve come to the conclusion that there are generally three broad categories of social content. I’m going to expand on this premise in this and a couple of upcoming posts and certainly the [...]
January 3, 2012 By
Check Your Hair, Make Sure Your Mic Works!
Check your hair, make sure your mic works – sound advice given at the start screen of a Google Hangout. Increasingly bloggers, marketers, and others involved in the online world are making appearances in the real world. Taking their content from the virtual to the real world. I asked a question on Google Plus a [...]
December 20, 2011 By
Holy Sh!tballs, Michael Bublé, Marketing & the Surprise of Listening
I was sent a link to a Michael Bublé video the other day. I’m not a big fan of his singing – though I readily admit he has a great voice and it makes for decent background music. What I saw surprised the heck out of me and made me rethink my impression of him. It [...]
December 14, 2011 By
The Global Village is Missing Its Idiot
Companies that refer to themselves as Global do so to illustrate their ability to operate around the world and of course to give the impression of size, reliability and capability. However, I am constantly surprised at the number of companies that refer to themselves in that way but really mean they have operations in other [...]
