Posts by Carol Ross
Spreading Gratitude Through Twitter and Blogs
I'm still trying to figure out how I want to use Twitter, a micro-blogging service that's getting press and becoming more mainstream. One of the fun uses: organizing a conversation around a specific topic, with a bunch of people you may or may not know ("followers" in Twitter language.) In the blogging world, people have…
Read MoreTribes
I just finished the book, Tribes, by Seth Godin. It's a quick read with lots of stories to illustrate the finer points of leadership and community-building. Here's just one nugget that resonated with me, on the Anatomy of a Movement: "Senator Bill Bradley defines a movement as having three elements: A narrative that tells a…
Read MoreOprah and A Whole New Mind
I was happy to see that Dan Pink is still talking about A Whole New Mind, most recently with Oprah on her Soul Series webcast. While I’ve seen Pink speak several times and have interviewed him twice, I’m always interested to see how he responds to new questions. Oprah had her own take when she…
Read MoreGratefulness in Full Color
Here’s a video that I really love, sent to me by a friend. I hope you love it as much as I do. Many thanks to Marissa for helping me figure out how to embed a YouTube video in a blog post. (Yes, I really was an engineer at one time!) What does gratefulness look…
Read MoreSee a Kindle in Your City
In Fast Company magazine, Robert Scoble reports on the use of passionate early adopters to broaden the base of consumers for technology, including teens introducing their parents to Facebook. Scoble also talks about a "See a Kindle in Your City program that lets you find a Kindle user near you and arrange for the passionate…
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