Build: Community, purpose & growth
What Do You Want More or Less Of?
I've been blogging on A Bigger Voice since December 2007. It never crossed my mind to ask you, the reader, for feedback to shape what I blog about. Until now. I'm interviewing Jeremiah Owyang soon and in our pre-interview meeting, he gave me a food for thought on asking my community what they want more…
Read MoreKim Dority, Part 3: Using Social Media to Build Community
We’re hoping to use the social media tools both to talk about what Disaboom is doing, but also to gather information from a broader community as well, which we can then understand, synthesize and make public. –-Kim Dority In this third part of the interview, Kim Dority talks about using social media to grow the…
Read MoreKim Dority, Part 2: Building Community, Top-Down and Bottom-Up
How many ways can we complement each others’ missions? We are not here to compete but we are here to help everyone in this space. —Kim Dority, talking about how Disaboom collaborates with other disability-oriented organizations. In this second part of a four-part interview, Kim Dority from Disaboom reminds us to look broadly for community…
Read MorePatricia Ryan Madson, Part 3: Building Community and Moving Into Action
"Bold persistent experimentation. These are the times we are in now."–Patricia Ryan Madson This is the third and final segment of my interview with Patricia Ryan Madson, author of Improv Wisdom. I offer up suggestions on how to leverage her use of marketing, networking, and technology to create a vibrant community, based on the terrific…
Read MoreHow Book Authors Can Have a Bigger Voice
Forget the book tours. Go online. That was the advice of Tim Ferriss, author of The 4-Hour Work Week. If you don’t believe Ferriss, check out this series of interviews with successful authors who are using social media to get their ideas out into the world. The first interview is with Dan Pink, author of…
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