Why I’ve Come to Love Blogging

August 6, 2009

I’ve really come to love blogging and bloggers.  I started to blog this past spring — almost six months ago.  A friend encouraged me to try it — I’d like it!  So, I created a simple WordPress blog and started out on an unforeseen, but incredible journey.  Read more

Twitter Fatigue

May 31, 2009

Are you tired of tweeting?  I find a fatigue factor is setting in.  I have fewer than 200 people I’m following (carefully chosen) and their posts are just whizzing by.  It doesn’t help that Twitter has been moving at the speed of a pig stuck in mud when I try to catch up with them.

I also find – to my surprise and dismay – that some of the most famous social media gurus write really dull tweets.  Read more

• Try Different — Seth Godin

  The usual mantra is to 'try harder'. Trying harder is impossible when you're already trying as hard as you can.

  But you can always try different.

  Years ago, I was creating trivia questions for a product we built for Prodigy. We had a 99% accuracy rate in doing the questions. Which was great, except there were 1800 questions in a batch, which meant 18 wrong each time, which was totally and completely unacceptable. These were honest mistakes, made by smart people working as hard as they could.

  No matter how hard we tried, we couldn't do better than 99%. So we switched our system completely and did it in a totally different way. Same number of people, same number of hours, 100% accuracy.

  If it's not working, harder might not be the answer.

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