How We Snack In Relationships
On Sunday I kicked off a 4 part series on how our society has become addicted to different kinds of snacking and looked at how we snack on information. Wednesday I shared my thoughts on how snacking on food can be bad.
Today I’ll be sharing some thoughts about how we snack when interacting with others. Read more
Apple Press Conference
Some details on the Apple press conference. It starts at 10 AM Pacific (1 pm Eastern, 6 pm GMT). Many events are starting a bit earlier.
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When Snacking on Food Is Bad
On Sunday I kicked off a 4 part series on how our society has become addicted to different kinds of snacking and looked at how we snack on information.
Today I want to look at how snacking on food can be bad. Read more
How We Snack with Information & What To Do About It
My previous posts on choices and raising the bar have resulted in a lot of interesting discussions with readers. It’s gotten me thinking about many disturbing trends that are happening. The biggest set of trends relate to snacking.
Our society has become addicted to snacking:
- We snack with information.
- We snack with food.
- We snack with our interactions with others.
- We snack with our work.
The Tipping Point For Entrepreneurs
If you are struggling in any way with your business, I want to share some thoughts that I hope you will find encouraging.
I first read Malcolm Gladwell’s book “The Tipping Point” within a month or so of when it came out in 2000. I decided it was time for a second read recently.
Wikipedia gives the following overview of the book:
“Tipping points are “the levels at which the momentum for change becomes unstoppable.” Gladwell defines a tipping point as a sociological term: “the moment of critical mass, the threshold, the boiling point.” The book seeks to explain and describe the “mysterious” sociological changes that mark everyday life. As Gladwell states, “Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread like viruses do.”"
How to Autoplay YouTube Videos
Ever wonder how to get YouTube Videos to autoplay on a website? I’ll show you how to easily do this. Read more
Martin Luther King, Jr.: I Have a Dream
The famous, “I Have a Dream,” speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. is just as awe-inspiring today as it was in 1963 when he first gave it. If you haven’t seen it, watch it. If it’s been a while since you’ve seen it, watch it again.
How Google Rates Links From Twitter and Facebook
Google’s Matt Cutts recently gave the definitive word on how Google rates links from Twitter and Facebook in organic searches (as opposed to live search). Here’s the video:
How to Get Feedburner to Update Your RSS Feed
I make use of RSS feeds quite a bit – both to get news and to provide a way for my web site visitors to stay updated on content. I noticed this morning that very few Feedburner feeds I follow were showing new content. I also noticed that Feedburner emails for my own sites didn’t seem to go out on schedule.
I checked with several people I know who use Feedburner on their sites and about half said their sites feeds were updated, the other half said they weren’t. Read more
How to Target Gmail in Google Adwords
If you are a Gmail user, you may have noticed all the nice targeted ads that show up when you are in Gmail. Maybe you’re even wondering if it works well (it does) and how to do it.
Several months ago, I started to target Gmail users with Google Adwords advertising. I really didn’t think it was any big secret. I use Gmail, I saw targeted ads appearing. I figured out how to target them.
A few days ago, I started seeing an “Internet Marketing guru” start to promote a $97 one-hour video that promised to share the secrets of how to do this. Read more