Last winter I started playing a little game. Call it “I am the universe experiencing itself as…___” It began after having an awakening where I saw myself as one perspective that the universe has for seeing itself, and holding that as one among gazillions of others. Let us imagine the the universe, or god, or […]
I still find myself resisting my own crazy idealism. But life experience has brought me to understand something a wild teacher in high school said to us. “There are no right answers, there is only more or less appropriate.” Life is messy with little black and white and a whole lot of rainbowed spectrums. story […]
Collaborate with others to build your visibility, their visibility, gain access to resources, share access, increase value. Complimentarity. And I mean something pretty simple with this–who compliments what you are doing? Who has a similar market to your which will allow you both to increase your visibility to your target? What products and services compliment […]
Home again and settled in after many magical days in San Francisco. I had so many phenomenal conversation, and I simply must share a bit of it with you. When you have an hour or so with someone you have been admiring for a long time, how do you make the time productive? I had […]
I have been writing professionally since college…over a decade ago. My best opportunities for honing my writing came from limiting word or character count – whether on grant applications, articles, or even forms. So it is not surprising to me that the character count on twitter helped improve my writing. If it hasn’t already done […]
Reposted from email received. I did not write, but I do love it! A Carrot, an Egg or a Cup of Coffee. Which are you? This was too good of a life lesson not to pass on! A carrot, an egg and a cup of coffee…. You will never look at a cup of coffee […]
Oh, I have been sniffing around the edge of this field for years now. I am not a core participant, but I keep tabs on folks working in the field. So today I got a request to intro someone to the thinking in that area. I thought I might share it with all of you! […]
I “follow” abut 700 people on twitter, with about 1000 following me. At scale like this, the question I often am asked is, “How do you remember all those people?” * about a hundred don’t tweet often, I would guess * I already know about 250+, so I have hooks in my memory for them […]
Epic Change ran a fundraising campaign over twitter this thanksgiving – #tweetsgiving! They raised over their target of $10,000 in 48 hours. The money is intended for building a classroom in Tanzania. While the lure of social media promise for fundraising continues to elude many, there are a few hopeful and stellar examples of success. […]
This is extracted from a note I sent out to Leaders engaged with Inspired Legacies: The theme for my trip seemed to be democratization of philanthropy and knowledge sharing across internet sites and organizational silos. Tracy and I met up and joined Leif and Eric Utne along with several of my friends for dinner. Eric […]