Category: General

(via Seth) acts don’t change people’s behavior. Emotion changes people’s behavior. Stories and irrational impulses are what change behavior. Not facts or bullet points. Think about the most powerful learning moments you’ve ever had. My guess is that they didn’t take place in a darkened meeting room.

BL points to David‘s post about John’s post about Sun blogger Jonathan‘s article in the Harvard Business Review, ‘If You Want to Lead, Blog’: Here are the highlights: Use an honest, humorous, and open voice Show respect for the audience Don’t treat blogging like advertising Don’t micro-mange … communicate the guidelines and let company bloggers […]

Debbie points out a new trend synthetic transparency (didn’t we used to call this bullshitting?) Dr. Carl on the Advanced Organizational Communication blog: Synthetic transparency involves using blogs to give the impression of openness, honesty, and transparency but without really doing so. This notion is based on Norman Fairclough’s idea of “synthetic personalization” which he […]

Master those keyboard shortcuts: Mouse-less Firefox

Just like ‘blog’ was word of the year for 2005, ‘podcast’ is now the word of the year for 2005. What will 2006 be? OPML? Ajax? Wiki?

David from Solution Box is giving away 108 web templates – THANKS! Grab the free templates right now.

AskMeFi has a great thread on reading old MBOX format email files. I someday dream of having every piece of data in my life on one massive hard drive for my complete edification and searching. My biographer is going to have such a grand time.

Summary from MarketingSherpa’s Average Email Marketing List Size Growing by 40% Per Year: 4 Steps to Optimize Response: New subscribers (90 days good, 30 days better) are the most responsive to offers. Survey readers to find how they want the info: digest, full article, weekly, monthly, etc. Use site search logs to find fresh and […]

Lifehacker: SEO Made Easy

Anyone who has saved Word documents as web pages and then tried to edit them know one thing: Word adds a huge set of proprietary tags to the HTML. Here’s some tools to strip the code down to pristine, compliant HTML. (via AskMeFi) HTML Tidy is the classic tool that cleans up errant tags and […]