Posts by Carol Ross
What Would You Say At the End of Your Life?
Two years ago, I did a series of interviews with Ilene Kouzel, a friend dying of ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. The inteviews eventually were packaged into episodes for a podcast, Conscious Living, Conscious Leaving. Ilene loved to tell the story about adding one of her caretakers to her bank account, to make…
Read MorePower with Participants, Community Managers, and Social Networking
Click here for a great interview with Forrester analyst, Jeremiah Owyang on trends in social media and lessons in online community-building. As Jeremiah points out at the beginning of the interview, the "power is shifting to the participants." Other nuggets: the difference between a marketing manager and a community manager, Twitter as an update tool,…
Read MoreStartup School
A friend points me to this set of presentations from Startup School, a place for techies to learn about building a company from the ground up, from some of the stars in the high-tech biz. While I’m no longer a techie, I found the principles to be applicable for my line of business. And yes,…
Read MoreCommunity Building Through Contests, Breakfasts, Interactive Radio
Johnny Bunko leads the way again. I previously blogged about Dan Pink’s effective roll out of his manga business book. Visiting the official site, I found that Pink is taking a hybrid approach to building community–using online contests and in-person Bunko breakfasts, where the coffee and chow are on his tab. (BTW–If you get a…
Read MoreWhat Hell Really Looks Like
Quote from composer Gian-Carlo Menotti: "Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do." The friend who sent me the quote goes on to say: "For…
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