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Are conferences worth our time? I spent the last two days at Digital Summit 2012 conference in the Atlanta area. As today neared the closing session, I was reflecting on some notes I had taken and I thought “what am I really learning from all this?” Certainly it’s a question that attendees, presenters, sponsors, and booth marketers ask themselves at conferences. Was the conference worth the cost, energy, and time spent?
The classic answers. – It’s a chance to network and find out what others are doing in my industry. – It’s a chance to listen to speakers talk about how they have solved problems we all face. – It’s …Continue reading >>
Have you been pigeonholed at work? Getting pigeonholed in my career is something I work hard to avoid. Unfortunately, it’s a tough condition to shake and my experience is that I have to initiate the shaking-and-moving to stay get out of the hole. This is an important topic for professional workers that don’t want to grow stagnant and that continuously seek new challenges.
Pigeonholed is an expression with various meanings depending on context. For this writing, I’m referring to it as a verb meaning “to assign to a definite place or to definite places in some orderly system”. We use the term to refer to people in the workplace that …Continue reading >>
April 22nd, 2012 | | Tags: digital badges, LinkedInAre LinkedIn groups just a badge for your profile or are they something more? I loved LinkedIn. I like the concept of the site and I like how the company continues to grow functionality to what started as an online professional address book. In March of last year I wrote a few thoughts about LinkedIn group membership. But this week I was thinking specifically about the group membership badges that show on public profiles.
What’s really the purpose of the badge? It’s certainly a quick way to show group affiliation. It’s a way to show support for a cause or effort. It can also be a way to advertise for …Continue reading >>
Poke the Box by Seth Godin is a quick and easy read. While some may confuse it with a motivational type book, Godin’s points are a bit deeper. The two word summary is
Start Something.
Godin says “I’m merely encouraging you to start. Often. Forever. Be the one who starts things.” Starting things is like poking the box to see what will happen.The manifesto is a call for people to shed excuses, fear, and procrastination and to pursue their ideas. That’s certainly not a new principle. But Godin states his ideas in a clear, concise, and easy to understand format that worth your time to read.
He gives …Continue reading >>
November 11th, 2011 | | Tags: change, crazyI sat the in the office of a colleague not long ago and made a comment about how I thought a particular company procedure was too bureaucratic. We’ve all been there. Maybe you haven’t voiced it out-loud, but you’ve surely thought it. My point was that it wasn’t necessary to go through all this “stuff” to get to real objective of the process. It was a case where checking a box on a to-do list had become greater than what you were trying to achieve.
But what came next was one of those life stopping moments. My colleague said “What? Do you think you can change it?”. It was said …Continue reading >>
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