May 22 2008
Budget Hero
There’s a great online game where you are tasked with balancing the US budget. For you fellow Economics majors, you might find this interesting.
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May 22 2008
Rat on a cat on a dog!
May 22 2008
Ladies: There’s gottta be a better way
My friend Cameron Gawley was telling me about a big tv special on tonight on “The Big Idea” with Donny Deutsch. If you’ve ever had a great idea and wanted to take it from a concept to an actual business, then you may want to watch this tonight. Sort of a how-to manual featuring several successful female entrepreneurs, including the lady who founded Sassybax.
It’s on at 9c on CNBC.
A Big Idea Event: There’s Gotta Be A Better Way! - CNBC.com
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May 22 2008
The greatest dunks in college basketball history
May 22 2008
Gas prices have you bummed? Move to Wyoming!
From www.gasbuddy.com, a site that tracks gas prices, geographically:
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May 22 2008
The future of the way we do business
I was just talking about this with my colleague… the trends of business communication. Bad news for large companies, agencies and service industries, but good news for the small business owner and the customer. The individual has more power with all of the tools at his/her disposal.
From Chris Brogan’s Blog:
Jumping Over a Mountain
I believe this with all my heart: the way these new tools make the web work for us will (is!) dramatically impact the how/why/when of business communications and collaboration of all kinds. In ways, this impact is not too far afield from what Thomas Friedman talked about in THE WORLD IS FLAT. In this book, we learned how to move things that added value to our organization closer to the core of what we do, and how to disaggregate those things that aren’t as important and push those out to the fringe. It’s never safe to predict the future, but I want you to think about this, and see if it resonates. Disagree with me in the comments. We’ll talk about it.
I believe we’re going to shift back to thinking customer service and community management are the core and not the fringe. I believe we’re going to move our communications practices back in-house for lots of what is currently pushed out to agencies and organizations. I believe that integrity, reputation, skills, and personality are going to trump some of our previous measures of professional ability. I believe the web and our devices will continue to move into tighter friendships, and that we will continue to train our devices to interpret more of the world around us on our behalf.
I believe working remotely will become the rule, not the exception, and that we’ll replace some portion of office-meeting time with video now that it’s free-to-cheap. I believe that our business practices, processes, and output will modularize the way widgets have changed web design.
And not unlike Guy Kawasaki’s example of the ice blocks, to ice houses, to refrigerators analogy, I believe that the difference between how you perceive your role in all this and what will really make the difference is far apart.
It might be time to start thinking about jumping over a mountain. Because linear thinking won’t bring about what comes next. It will take a jet pack’s difference in your thinking.
What’s your prediction? How far off am I? What are you doing to get ready to jump over that mountain?
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