Rarely have I seen something as cool as this.  It is an e-mail (see below) where a member does a play-by-play of how an e-mail thread evolves.  Realize that this is a summary of a number of e-mails throughout the thread, but the way he lays it out is just plain cool.

The problem with the daily digest is the loss of the excitement of the chase – it is just like fishing:

The quarry was there:

Posted by: “Brock Henderson”

(Something about job search or career management… )

The hook was baited:

Posted by: “Jason Alba”

Brock, I agree… and that’s why I’d be on the lookout for a good career management tool :p

The nibbles started:

Posted by: “Brock Henderson”

Jason,

I seriously doubt such a thing exists.

And then the strike!

Posted by: “Jason Alba”

I seem to think JibberJobber does a pretty good job of serving as a career
management tool

The digest removes the thrill of the chase – the anticipation started at Jason’s first post but was over in the blink of an eye.

Actually, I can’t remember anything as cool as this on an e-mail. Kudos to Andrew Baker, from Australia, for putting it together.

Must have got that from his mom’s side of the family.

So, here’s why I love  Twitter.  Because I can share this amazingly funny thing to my Twitter network.  I’m not sure who, if anyone, listens to my tweets… and I don’t do it to get a response.  I justify it by thinking it is some kind of life-journaling… anyway, here’s what I wrote:

And here’s the responses I got:

I love this Twitter community thing

To end the day, though, I thought I’d carve out some time and put together a powerpoint to try slideshare.net. I’ve been wanting to do it for a while, but really wish I had a really creative person to do it for me, or at least check it out. Someone like Armano, or Geno (both of whom I’ve met in person).

It’s not that I don’t like to pretend I’m creative. But something happened two years ago that made me stop and think harder about what I was doing.

I put out a press release.

It was uber-successful.

And that success scared me.

Scared me into thinking I had to be more thoughtful, more careful, with these types of things.

And I stopped. No more press releases. Nothing that an ad agency, or a PR firm, should do.

I scared myself into non-action.

And that was dumb.

I just finished putting a scared Taylor to bed. When the kids are scared, I say a special prayer of comfort and love. William is in the top bunk over Taylor and after we said amen, he said, ‘Why do we always say A-Men and not A-Lady?‘ I busted up laughing and told him how smart he was to think of that question and that I had never thought to ask that.

Then, William says:

“When I grow up I want to be a Canadian, that makes people laugh.” My wife asks, “A Comedian?” and William responds “Yeah!”

Guffaws all around

Anyway, here are some links to help you track a certain “thing” in twitter…. people here are using the hash mark (pound) like this: #sncr (sncr is the name of the group, pronounced “snicker”):

• http://twemes.com/SNCR
• http://twitter.summize.com/search?q=%23sncr&from=&to=&ref=&tag=&tude=〈=all
• http://www.tweetscan.com/index.php?s=sncr&u=
• http://hashtags.org/tag/sncr/

This definitely makes the list of top 5 valuable things to do with Twitter (and makes the information manageable).

William: Dad, yesterday Taylor (4yo girl) said all of the cusswords.

Me: Oh yeah, did mom hear?

William: yeah. And she didn’t even get in trouble.

Me: What did she say?

William: She said

• stupid
• dumb
• your not the boss of me
• and all the other cuss words there could be, except the V-word.

Me: What is the v-word? (thinking I knew all of the cusswords, but the gravity of this v-word issue was almost concerning…)

William: (hesitating, and in a whisper) … “vain”

I’m happy to share an article that just went live today, which has turned into one of my favorite articles… the title is Boosting Your Sales With Social Networking.  How cool is that?

… now, we just need to break 1,000!

But this one caught my eye:

I love it. It’s just missing one simple word. But this went to probably tens of millions. This is portraying their brand.

Why do I find and care about stuff like this? Probably because of the time when I presented new brochures in a board meeting at my old company and the chairman crumpled the pamphlet and threw it at the wall when he found something he didn’t like.

I got the impression we were mickey mouse, and that other real companies would never, ever make mistakes like that.

… alas, I love finding the big companies making mistakes.

Not that I’m immune from it, as I know my mistakes are (and will be plentiful), maybe I just like knowing that nothing is as perfect as it seems.