Category: General

I’ve been toying with MediaWiki lately and have a supernice template for it but I’m wondering if I can just collapse it all into my blog. I don’t really need the ‘group editing’ features of a wiki. I’m thinking I might just make a meta category called ‘Handbook’ and use that to tag all posts […]

Heads up happy tree friends, our The Secret movie 30 Challenge ends tomorrow with a special call with coach and author Kim George. She’s aweomse. You’ll love it. Grab the PDF with the details if you don’t have it already.

Sharonista has a post over at 9:01 AM: The Top 5 Ways Smart People Use Twitter #4. Breaking news & getting scoops. People let their guard down on Twitter, and if you’re in the tech news reporting field you might get some juicy leads via Twitter. The kind of news that’s likely to be broken […]

Nice: The electronics retailer, facing larger competitors and falling sales, said Wednesday that it would lay off about 3,400 store workers — immediately — and replace them with lower-paid new hires as soon as possible. The laid-off workers, about 8 percent of the company’s total work force, would get a severance package and a chance […]

(I know this post is late to the ‘sphere – but it is my ezine for the week.) Every year at the South by Southwest arts festival (aka SXSW) geeks of all stripes meet to greet and gawk. It is like Burning Man except you get to keep your clothes on. Everyone was agog at […]

There’s been much gnashing of teeth and hand-wringing over Kathy Sierra from Creating Passionate Users receiving death threats from comments on other blogs and cancelling a recent public appearance. A Photoshopped picture of her with a pair of panties over her mouth and another picture of her next to a noose have also turned up. […]

From Lifehacker: When you think you’ve gone absolutely as far as you can, keep going. You’ve just reached the starting point. Breakthrough can’t happen until you pass the boundaries you believe are there in your life and thought. If you find a boundary, be happy. You’ve just found what you need to break through. Learning […]

NYTimes: IN an advertising campaign that began last week, Nissan left 20,000 sets of keys in bars, stadiums, concert halls and other public venues. Each key ring has a tag that says: “If found, please do not return. My next generation Nissan Altima has Intelligent Key with push-button ignition, and I no longer need these.â€? […]

Wayne hits the ceiling: I have hit my breaking point on people who are putting down the movie The Secret and why it doesn’t work. Many of these people are not making much money selling their own books and seminars so they take the principle of piggybacking media stories (Like the Secret) but use their […]

(via ChrisG) Sean D’Souza: Make sure you train your customers. Create a series of seminars both online and offline that help them learn. Demonstrate how others are using their software. Better still show these customers a bunch of case-studies. People just like them who started up with nothing and have used the software to make […]