I have few words left in me. Few words for tech blogging and this website, at least. I have been blogging a little on my food blog:
Celebrating Fat Tuesday
Superfast Salisbury Steak
But I feel mostly mute when it comes to talking about the “connected age” which is the ostensible subject of this blog. Pro blogging and […]
How do you find high performance in your work life without burning out? That’s what I’ve been wondering after I crashed at the end of last year. After two months of nonstop work and work-related worry, I couldn’t continue. So I arranged to take a mini-sabbatical.
I first needed immediate stress relief, but I also wanted […]
In December, I received Dr. Susan L. Reid’s Discovering Your Inner Samurai: The Entrepreneurial Woman’s Journey to Business Success for review and was invited to join in the virtual book tour planned by WME Books. Although normally I might not have agreed, there was something about this book and the timing as it came into […]
After reading The Nine Best Story Lines for Marketing, I knew I had to read Lois Kelly’s Beyond Buzz: The Next Generation of Word-of-Mouth Marketing. It didn’t disappoint.
Kelly suggests that to succeed with marketing in this millennium you need to “make meaning, not buzz.” Buzz lacks authenticity and truth. Meaning speaks to people’s need to […]
A piece I wrote for GigaOM a while ago on the Connected Age was published this weekend, with a table taken straight out of my book manuscript for Connect!: Web Worker Daily’s Guide to a New Way of Working. I do mean straight out — as Judi pointed out to me, there’s even a red […]
Phil Rosenzweig’s The Halo Effect suggests that much reporting and analysis and expounding on what businesses are doing right or wrong is subject to the halo effect: when a company’s doing well, everything they do looks smart and visionary. When they’re not doing well, they look awkward, uncertain, and fumbling.
You might say, “that’s because good […]
Richard Ogle’s Smart World proposes that the world of ideas thinks for itself. Its not lone geniuses out there coming up with breakthrough innovation but rather networks of people and ideas.
“Networks of people and ideas”: sounds like the web, doesn’t it? Especially in blogging, you feel the truth of what Ogle says, that ideas and […]
My most marked-up book of recent has been Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age by Duncan Watts. Among the many insights I found:
Some communities can be too clustered, leading to stagnation, where no new ideas can percolate. That happens when every person is so connected that whatever they hear about matters very little […]
Everyone suffers from burnout at some time or another. You know what it feels like: everything irritates you; everyone bothers you; every task requires too much energy. You can’t imagine ever feeling motivated by your work again. What do you do? Here are a few ideas… though they didn’t totally work for me. I greeted […]
I posted a list of five books that can give you a fresh perspective on Web Worker Daily this morning. Since WWD is work and career-oriented, I didn’t include a sixth book that can also change your life, so I’ll tell you about it here. It’s the Anne 2.0 reader bonus for the day.
Fresh perspective […]
