Happy Sunday everyone. I’ve got some good stuff hear I think…one thing to note: Valeria Maltoni of Conversation Agent has 2 links here. The first gets the award for longest story title and the second gets the award for shortest! Solving The Project Communication Problem by Bas de Baar on Project Shrink How IT Can [...]
Branding gone wrong – SciFi to SyFy
March 27, 2009 By 4 Comments
In my new role in the marketing department at the Boy Scouts of America I find myself in the middle of conversations about branding. I find these conversations extremely interesting and have been reading through blogs and books about the subject. In my web travels yesterday I was pointed to a story about branding and [...]
Creative Thinking or Lateral Thinking?
March 24, 2009 By 14 Comments
Mark McGuinness over at Lateral Action has a great post titled “Is Lateral Thinking Necessary for Creativity?“…this post is a well thought out argument against the idea that lateral thinking is required for creativity. I won’t go into the details of Mark’s post but I wanted to highlight this passage: He [Robert Weisberg] argues that [...]
Links for March 22 2009
March 22, 2009 By 5 Comments
Why Ideals are the New Business Models by Umair Haque on HarvardBusiness.org The 5 Percent Trick: Finding Passion and Purpose in Life by Albert on Zen Habits Influential Following by Chris Guillebeau on The Art of Nonconformity First, Stop Doing Harm by Andrew McAfee The Problem with B-Schools is the Problem with Business by Charles [...]
NOOP.NL – Top 100 Blogs for Developers (1Q 2009)
March 17, 2009 By 1 Comment
Book Review: Noble Enterprise
March 17, 2009 By 1 Comment
Last month I received a review copy of NOBLE ENTERPRISE: The Commonsense Guide to Uplifting People and Profits by Darwin Gillett. I had my doubts about the book when I received it..the cover art and use of the word ‘spirit’ sprinkled on the front and back covered just gave me a bad feeling about the [...]
Links for March 15 2009
March 15, 2009 By 1 Comment
The High Priests of IT – And the Heretics by Cory Doctorow on HarvardBusiness.org Thank you, Jack Welch by Mike Neiss on The Tom Peters Weblog Innovation, invention and entrepreneurs by Jeffrey Phillips on Innovate on Purpose Solve the Right Problem by Paul Williams on the Marketing Profs Daily Fix Blog How Marketers Should Plan [...]
A techie in a marketers world
March 11, 2009 By 10 Comments
For those that haven’t heard the news, I accepted a full-time position with the Boy Scouts of America in February. I work for the Brand Management Department as part of the Marketing Group. My role is multi-functional – I do a little bit of everything; Project Management, Technology Management, Strategy, Processes (yeah! {sarcasm}) and in [...]
Links for March 8 2009
March 8, 2009 By 3 Comments
Creating project plans to focus product development by Steve Neiderhauser Great Entrepreneurs’ Secret: Smarts, Guts, and Luck by Anthony Tjan on HarvardBusiness.org “Manager vs. Leader” definition by Paul Ritchie on Crossderry Blog Loop quantum gravity: getting closer to reality by Chris Lee on ArsTechnica (note to readers – If you didn’t already know, I’m a [...]
CIO Survey shows serious impact to IT budgets
March 6, 2009 By 4 Comments
CIO Magazine ran a survey of 208 Chief Information Officers (CIO) and reported the results in an article titled “IT Budget & Staffing Survey Shows Bleak Year Ahead for CIOs, IT Staffs“. The results aren’t surprising…or at least shouldn’t be surprising to anyone in the IT field. Some highlights from the article: More than half [...]
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