Stuff you should know, stuff I should remember.

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I think imagination is often left out of the business and marketing and blogging equation. Managers will challenge their employees to think outside the box but then deride anything truly revolutionary like What if we pleased our customers and employees before our shareholders? or Gee, our products do kinda suck – maybe our customers are […]

… when I get out of bed in the morning. From Flickr user CloneOfSnake.

Thank God. That only took 2 years. Revisited the broken image links in my Moodle installation and found this gem in the forums. I had the same problem on my installation. Try going into Configuration > Variables > and set slasharguments to file.php?file=/pic.jpg That fixed the problem immediately in my installation. It’s covered in the […]

Chris points to Brian’s profile of Gary from WineLibaryTV: Not only is he “Internet Famous,” his activities have helped grow the family wine business to the tune of $50 million per year. But even more significantly, he has flipped the wine industry on its head, opening the door to bring wine to the hearts, and […]

Nice gem: In time, through rapport and frequency of contact, tension goes down and trusts increases. Court your prospect across the “transfer of trust” bridge to become your client. Be the professional and help your client make a well-educated decision. Show them what to do next to increase their financial position. When you establish value, […]

HRWorld has some cringe-worthy coverletters: “I have experience in the pre-funding, due dilligence, and inception stages of the venture capital and formulation cycles, for a US$7.8 billion (yes, BILLION) start-up company, overseas.” … “I am a dilettante and a factotum whose knowledge of English and its usage, earmark me as an ideal candidate.”

A top exec at one of Chicago’s biggest advertising agencies recently jumped to his death from a hotel roof here in Chicago. He was highly visible in the industry and had been frequently pilloried by bloggers covering the advertising world. New York Times: “We’re certainly used to criticism in the agency business,” said Nina DiSesa, […]

We’ve all done that cloying trust-fall activity where you pretend like you trust your fellow co-workers enough to let them catch you as you fall backwards. I’ve always thought that maybe if there was less time spent doing trite exercises and more time investigating why co-workers don’t trust eachother it would make the workplace work […]

I think if I could cook down the entire Internet to on sentence it would be: There’s always a bigger freak than you. No matter how much you love scrapbooking or American Idol or UFC, there is someone out there online that knows all that you do – and just a little bit more (and […]