New groups are being formed throughout the country, and nobody has noticed. These emergent groups are zero to three years old. And the organizers are not the usual suspects. If there is a connection to urban tribes it is the connecting of existing urban tribes.
We meet our new friends, talking to others we know through [...]
Thanks to the Charlotte North Caroline Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America for the opportunity to address 160 pros yesterday. Attendee Jason Keath of Charlotte already has a wrap up post from my talk here. Thanks Jason!
And of course the slides are available on slideshare.net/eschipul as well as embedded below. Thanks!
Social Media 101 [...]
Just because you are smart doesn’t mean your opinion matters. Yup, you got lottsa gray matter up there, plenty of neurons firing at will, but perhaps the best course of action is to acknowledge you and ignore you. Or me.
Here’s the point. Being smart is, you know, pedantic. Narrow. Baseline. Easy. It’s like selecting a [...]
“You’re constantly on the brink of crashing because that’s the fastest.” – Danica Patrick
First – HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to Barak Obama, our new President! 2009 is going to be better than 2008, and I hope and pray he can lead us back to what so many of us believe America is capable of.
From a tech perspective the switch of the site from change.gov to the actual whitehouse.gov and [...]
Three of my favorite MKL quotes:
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.”
‘We [...]
“A bat and a ball together cost $1.10. The bat costs a dollar more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?”
- Kahneman (hint: it’s not $1)
Recently finishing Outliers, I was really struck by the section on mitigated speech and airplane crashes. Gladwell’s definition of mitigated speech on page 194 is:
Mitigated speech – any attempt to downplay or sugarcoat the meaning of what is being said.
In short, co-pilots may not communicate clearly with captains out of deference. They hint at things [...]
Seriously, 2009 has got to be better than 2008. Seriously. So HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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