Tag Archives: conversations

Art and utility

Over the past year (much longer, actually), we’ve seen the idea of creativity being the key to business success in the world and the world as it is evolving. We’ve seen new phrases pop up like “the creative economy” or … Continue reading

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Finding ideas, mind-mapping, process and chaos

Two related post subjects caught my attention last week and I’m trying to distill them here. The subjects are ideas (coming up with them) and mind-mapping. I began the post, How to find an idea (since abandoned) and also scattered … Continue reading

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Social media and passing fancies

I began thinking today about social media and all the tools we see. There is something of a digital cornucopia of “stuff”: Facebook, Twitter, iPhone apps, Twitter apps, aggregators and on and on. New ones pop up everyday. Accompanying all … Continue reading

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Is social media just talk radio on meth?

Through social media I’ve been following a couple of issues recently. It has lead me to have questions about social media, particularly the conversation aspect. A news story, a blog post or a Facebook page has comment tools or “like” … Continue reading

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Working from home – three caveats

We all have ideas about what working from home would be like and most of them reflect the upside of it, or at least what we imagine the upside to be. I think most would be roughly accurate so I … Continue reading

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