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May 10, 2011 By 2 Comments

Greener Grass Media BlogHey friends.

Today, I’m writ­ing over at the blog on my busi­ness site, Greener Grass Media. I post some­thing there once or twice a week. I’d love for you to visit. Even if you’re not a busi­ness per­son, I think you’ll find some use­ful ideas.

This may be the last time I’ll men­tion that here, as I under­stand it may not be everyone’s cup of tea.

Finally, if you would like auto­matic noti­fi­ca­tion of when I post some­thing there, start using an RSS reader. Here are some sim­ple instruc­tions on how and why. The dif­fer­ence is that you’ll start by click­ing the but­ton on your browser I’ve shown below.

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Annoying Facebook feature

February 17, 2010 By 7 Comments

FB-probSo, I always hit “Most Recent” when­ever I go to Face­book. The other option (unfor­tu­nately the default) seems to let Face­book pick what it thinks is most impor­tant for me to see. I’d rather see what was posted most recently.

Any­one out there pre­fer the “View News Feed” set­ting? Why?

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How Chris changed my life

February 10, 2010 By 6 Comments

brogan-n-paulChris Bro­gan and I first met when I was in Africa. We “met” through the won­der­ful world of blog­ging. I was work­ing as a man­ager at a non-profit orga­ni­za­tion whose Africa head­quar­ters were in Nairobi, Kenya. I found Chris’s blog through another long-forgotten social media author­ity. Chris’s blog quickly made it to the top of my daily must-read list. His easy-going man­ner, wide knowl­edge of many top­ics and above all, humil­ity, drew me in. He has the abil­ity to relate with a large num­ber of peo­ple and make them feel like they have value. Rare indeed.

Chris found me through our mutual friend Jon Swan­son. I was blog­ging about the quirk­i­ness of life in the fren­zied city of Nairobi. Chris enjoyed my per­spec­tives and appre­ci­ated some of the work we went there to accomplish.

How did Chris change my life? He intro­duced me to the world of social media. I real­ized that I enjoyed that world! Man­age­ment was not my cup of tea — at least when it involved directly man­ag­ing 15 peo­ple, none of whom were Amer­i­cans. (Cul­tural gaps were mag­ni­fied in ways that I never expected.) So when our tour of duty was up, we returned home to Col­orado — and social media became part of my job mix. Thank you Chris!

Dis­clo­sure: a small part of why I wrote this post is that I’m enter­ing this post to try to win a free trip to #SOBCon2010 (the Suc­cess­ful and Out­stand­ing Blog­gers Con­fer­ence in Chicago). I met Chris and Jon face-to-face at SOB­Con 2009. I must say that more peo­ple than Chris changed my life as a result of the 2009 conference.

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A great Christmas present for the business person in your life

December 16, 2009 By 1 Comment

tacoversmallTrust Agents by Chris Bro­gan & Julien Smith.

This is with­out a doubt the best busi­ness book that came out in 2009. It’s read­able, inter­est­ing and filled with great illus­tra­tions. It is laced with appli­ca­tion sec­tions, so you can grab things to use in your busi­ness or organization.

Chris brings some­thing new to the field of busi­ness com­mu­ni­ca­tions — humil­ity. He proves that you do not require a big ego to get the job done well. He cites many sto­ries about how the best way to fur­ther your goals is to help some­one else. What a refresh­ing voice!

Julien adds a lot of stim­u­lat­ing insights to the mix. How­ever, since I don’t know him like I know Chris, it’s harder for me to really sift out exactly the part he had in the book’s creation.

Most books in the busi­ness cat­e­gory I read or skim and then sell on Ama­zon. This one? It stays on my shelf.

What’s the best book you added to your keeper shelf this year?

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Of pens, pencils and social media

May 5, 2009 By 4 Comments

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I’ve always loved pens.

I just met Phil. He gave me a pen. (How cool is that?) He told me about the Lev­enger Store at Macy’s — a few blocks from the con­fer­ence I attended over the week­end. Nor­mally Lev­enger will assem­ble a small note­book for you to try out their pens on. Sadly, they were out of the paper, so I couldn’t get one. I did test drive a few of their pens. Nice. My bud­get wouldn’t quite stretch for the one I liked, but I did buy some pen­cils! My buddy Jon is ana­logue enough that he likes pen­cils, so I shared my pack with him.

One of the rea­sons I enjoy the social media com­mu­nity is that they’re very open-handed and friendly, as evi­denced by Phil and Jon. Even though Chris has more than 66,000 fol­low­ers on Twit­ter, he greeted me like a long-lost friend. (That was our first time to meet in per­son, though we have known each other through blog­ging for almost four years.) Jon, Becky, Sheila, NEENZ and I were good bud­dies by the end of the conference.

The social media com­mu­nity is a huge con­trast to the graphic design com­mu­nity. When I fin­ished col­lege, I started work in Dal­las. I went to sev­eral pro­fes­sional design­ers’ meet­ings. They seemed to be cen­tered around achieve­ment and ego. I never fit in. But the social media com­mu­nity cel­e­brates those with dis­abil­i­ties that some may look down on. How refreshing!

And the pen­cils and pen are nice.

Take­away: what are some ways you can be open-handed today?

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Twitter: a quick why do it.

March 9, 2009 By 2 Comments

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I’ll point you here. And also remind you that this site has a small but grow­ing social media sec­tion.

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