Posts by Carol Ross
I Owe My Sanity to Fairy Cards or How Taking a Vacation is Easier Than You Think
Lately, I’ve been feeling like there’s always one more thing on my list that needs to get done. Friday evening comes and I look forward to getting caught up on the weekend—the emails that I’ve neglected, the blog postings that have been ruminating since reading a newspaper article or having an insight while jogging or…
Read MoreBottom Up vs. Top Down
I finally got it the other day when someone said that A Bigger Voice is about creating change from the bottom up. It used to be that change could only come from the top down or required a massive organizational effort from the bottom up (Think Civil Rights movement in the U S.) With technology…
Read MoreImprov Wisdom
I’ve fallen in love with a gem of a book, Patricia Ryan Madson’s Improv Wisdom. Madson is a retired professor of drama at Stanford University, with lots of credits in the areas of improv and creativity. Less than 150 pages, the book is a quick read. It is organized by principles of improvisation that, when…
Read MoreWhat 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,…
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