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En vacances? Not really

by Bill on August 27, 2010

The other day I came upon some writing I did quite a while ago. By “a while” I mean fifteen to twenty years ago. Amid all that writing I found a series of stories I wrote. I had put them together under a tentative title, Rather Short Stories for Rather Small People. Other than being [...]

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Respect customers and yourself

by Bill on July 24, 2010

(This was first posted Sept. 18, 2004.) In the various blogs I visit, and in other sources, I continually come across discussions about customers and their experience of businesses, large and small. One of the themes that pops up frequently is respect, as in Seth Godin’s recent posting, Trust and Respect, Courage and Leadership. You [...]

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Social media marketing – why make it hard?

by Bill on July 8, 2010

You’re a small business owner and you have to get on that social media thing. Everybody says so. Everything you read says so. You can’t turn around without someone asking what you’re doing with social media. And you’ve looked at it. You’ve been on Twitter and Facebook and you’ve read articles and you’ve talked to [...]

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‘Emotions are contagious’

by Bill on June 8, 2010

I wrote a review of a book I’m currently rereading, Exuberance: The Passion for Life by Kay Redfield Jamison. (You’ll find it over at Thoughtwrestling.) This morning, I was looking over a chapter titled “Throwing up rockets,” a phrase from P.T. Barnum and it started me thinking about a few other things, like school murals [...]

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Authenticity and free speech

by Bill on June 7, 2010

On Saturday, Jonathan Fields had an interesting post titled, “Is social media killing authenticity?” I found the question intriguing partly because I think the answer is likely yes, at least in the sense Fields is talking about it (as in, people reporting words heard taken out of context). I had asked a similar question in [...]

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Today’s theme is rabbit warrens

by Bill on April 23, 2010

Today I have a post over at Thoughtwrestling, one I’m both happy with and unhappy with. Actually, I don’t quite know what to think of it. I like it, but it’s not quite what I was hoping for. The post is called Can we choose to be creative? It produced a number of rabbit warrens, [...]

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Quotes are signage

by Bill on April 9, 2010

The internet is full of epigrams, aphorisms and quotes. I used a few in my post yesterday. You see them every day in tweets and status updates. They’re all over the place. Why is that? What are they for? They’re signage. That’s the simple answer. They’re wayfinding information. As with anything, excess turns them into [...]

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