Don’t let anyone fool you. Companies want social media engagement, most just aren’t willing to do the internal work aimed at bringing down the barriers to transparency in order to make that happen.
Most of us know someone that desperately longs to be in a relationship, yet they remain hopelessly single because they refuse to let [...]
Entries from October 2008
October 6, 2008
My role in Startup Weekend Detroit
Update: Startup Weekend Detroit has been postponed to March 27 – 29, 2009.
I am working on organizing Startup Weekend Detroit and my friend and fellow organizer, Shauna Nicholson wanted to interview me about why I chose to take on this responsibility and what I thought it might do to help the struggling Detroit economy.
The original [...]
October 3, 2008
Learn the rules so you can break them well
Politics and marketing don’t mix, or do they?
Like a lot of people, I took piano lessons throughout most of my childhood and adolescence. One great music lesson that also became a great life lesson was the notion of breaking rules well.
In music theory, arbitrary and reckless violation of the rules just makes noise, but skillful [...]
