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Quote of the day by Shally
Shally-no-last-name-required (in the recruiting/sourcing space) tells the animal:
I don’t think it’s possible to giving away too many secrets when you have the key to finding new ones.
Maybe I don’t get out much but I found that to be brilliant, especially considering the idea of generate revenue based on content (or, secrets)!
Internet: tangled up tubes, NOT a big truck
This happened a long time ago, and there are lots of funky remixes on YouTube, but I wanted to reference it on this blog. It’s a darn shame an elected official did this… shame on him for not knowing better, shame on his staff for not educating him better, and shame on Alaska for voting him into office.
This babbling does nothing to give me peace of mind about what happens in D.C.
If you want the highlights with visuals, check this out:
Word of Mouth presentation by Andy Sernovitz – an afterthought
Many ideas went through my head as I listened to Andy Sernovitz yesterday. It was cool to have my wife with me, as this was one of the first things that she was able to attend in the 18 months that we’ve been self-employed. she took 3 pages of notes, too, and we talked about how to apply stuff from the presentation – very cool.
One thing that is foremost on my mind is the idea of the Topic, which is one of the five T’s. This is the “thing” that people talk about.
They don’t talk about “the career management tool” in normal, non-professional, non-job seeker circles, I don’t think. What could the topic be?
Liz Strauss and Lindsey Pollak brainstormed this with me earlier this year when they were in town… the thing I remember most from that brainstorm was “take your job with you.” The idea is that even though we transition from job to job, we still maintain career-important relationships, and we can store them in JibberJobber… hence, just as I take my degree with me, and my experience, JJ allows me to take those contact relationships with me….
This is a hard topic for me, perhaps because I’m to busy seeing the trees, while my customers/users/champions/friends are able to see the forest. I know that JibberJobber gets word of mouth, because each day I see new people sign up from job networking meetings, which means that people are saying something about JJ in the meeting. This is good. Too bad I can’t hear how others are describing and promoting it, that would really help me wrap my brain around the topic.
… and now I’m rambling. But I will continue to think of what topics are easy to repeat and spread.
Getting to SLCC Miller Free Enterprise Showroom
If you have never been to the Salt Lake Community College (SLCC) Miller Free Enterprise Showroom you might find it a little tricky… unless you follow these directions 🙂
9750 South 300 West
Sandy, Utah (Google Map)
First, you’ll want to take either 106S or 90S … either one works.
Here’s an image of what to do if you get off on 9000 South:
Here’s an image of what you do if you get off on 10600 South:
Once you get there, you’ll want to park (somewhere in the yellow), and then follow the skinny red arrows. Note that the second skinny red arrow is when you’ll be IN the building. The green astrisk represents the approximate location of the auditorium.
Plaxo’s amazing growth is attributed to… (drum roll)
According to Caroline McCarthy at the CNET blog, the growth is attributed to the announcement of OpenSocial. Admitedly, this is Plaxo’s data, not her conlusion. Her blog post is worth reading. (Dear Caroline, don’t worry about my readers getting the wrong message here, the truth is, no one reads this blog ;)).
However, I have an alternative reason for Plaxo’s growth. It’s because they decided to open the spam machines out again. I swear, this seems to be the same time frame that I received about a gazillion plaxo invites. Like this one:
Just for the record, I like what Plaxo can do, and think it’s tre-cool. But just when they were getting over the brand and perception that they were a lean, mean, spamming machine, they opened it up again and became the topic of (negative) discussion. Oops.
Huh? What exactly is IP?
My question and answer with an attorney at a conference:
Me: Do you do intellectual property?
Attorney: Yes, we do everything in business except for trademarks and patents.
I’m sure IP goes beyond trademarks and patents, but this answer led me to believe that this guy either didn’t hear my question, or he didn’t know what I was looking for. Even if I’m “wrong,” I’m the purchaser, and it would be worth his while to respond based on my perceptions of what IP is… don’t you think?
does this widget work?
I’m playing around with widgets… just testing to see if this one works… (if you don’t see anything, it doesn’t work :p)
The broad hippo
Yesterday I was reading a book to my kids and came across “the broad hippopotamus.” I asked my 6 year old son what a broad hippo is. It went something like this:
Me: What is a broad hippo?
6 year old boy: A hippo with bras?
after a few seconds for us to digest it, we all laughed for a while. I grew up with all boys (my sisters are quite a bit younger, and were still very young when I moved out of the house), so I would have never thought about a hippo with bras! Alas, my son is with mom and three sisters all day – he’s growing up quite a bit different than I did!