Starting this week I’m going to be experimenting with a virtual assistant to help me and Chess Media Group get tasks done. Over the past few months I’ve spent far too much time on tasks that can easily be delegated to someone else such as
Before reading on ask yourself this questions, is collaborating, engaging, or listening always a good thing? Collaboration can take many forms either within a company or between a company and it’s customers and prospects. However, as Morten Hansen says in his book Collaboration, there is
Over the past 6 months or so I had the opportunity to visit Washington DC twice. I really haven’t spent much time on the east coast at all. Sure I’ve spent a few days in New York but that was hardly enough time to for
Updated September 21, 2011 I’ve been chatting with a few folks about E2.0 case studies and found that there are some good sources of information out there but they appear to be spread out all over the place. I spent some time aggregating sources or
For those of you not familiar with Dunbar’s number it basically says that the most amount of people that you can maintain stable social relationships with is 150. According to wikipedia: “Dunbar’s number is a theoretical cognitive limit to the number of people with whom
I live in San Francisco, California which is a really remarkable city that feels like the center of the world sometimes. I was thinking about some of my traveling and realized that I have seen more over the world overseas than I have domestically. I’ve
I had the opportunity to speak with the CEO of Cubetree last night and one of the things we talked about were some of the lessons Cubetree has learned over the past 2 years of being in business. I first became acquainted with Cubetree at
That’s quite a mouthful I know. This concept was recently introduced to me by Gil Yehuda via email and was originally developed by Bruce Tuckman (in the 1960’s) who believed that these were all necessary phases for teams to go through in order for them
If you love traveling like I do then you also realize that traveling can get to be pretty expensive. Round trip tickets to many parts of the world can cost over $1,000 which can leave a pretty big hole in the wallet. Cruises cost several
I was reading Mike Gotta’s blog today and came across his post on a new prototype tool that SAP has been implementing internally for SNA (social network analysis). For those of you unfamiliar with SNA it’s not a new concept in fact, it has been
