The Real Blind Influence

Ted Kennedy’s Massachusetts senate seat is filled by conservative Republican Scott Brown so “Americans are sending a message.”  In a word, No.
Obama was elected after President Bush & Congress bankrupted the country with an unnecessary war, corporate welfare (which Clinton did too, by the way), and laws favoring the 1% of wealthiest Americans so “Americans [...]

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Yesterday at about noon my business partner, David Oxstein, said, “It’s raining in LA all weekend, do you want to go to Palm Springs and work out of The Lucy House instead?

The Lucy House is where Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz would stay every weekend.  After a week of shooting the I Love Lucy TV [...]

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There was a New York Times article a week or so ago profiling a guy who made $300 in a hour by tweeting about M&Ms.  Since I waited to write this, I can’t find the article, but he has was averaging $3,000 a week doing promotions like this.
So is it wrong to get paid to [...]

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Magical thinking can kill you. Now it’s been proven. After James Arthur Ray, self proclaimed ’self help expert’ and one of the stars of the book and movie The Secret charged 70 participants $9,933 each to attend a sweat lodge event, two died, 19 went to the hospital and the ‘law of attraction‘ [...]

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I just read a London Telegraph article mistitled “The Social Media Revolution is Going Nowhere.” It included statements like
No wonder the company has yet to make any money, while Facebook, too, has yet to deliver on its financial potential. None of this is to say, of course, that the internet hasn’t had a profound [...]

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Socialnomics has put together a video driving home the reality of how social media is fundamentally shifting how we communicate, connect and consume culture in the 21st century.  Share it with anyone who tells you that social media is a fad, technology is isolating people rather than facilitating face-to-face meetings, or that Twitter is stupid.
One [...]

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Technology has rocked our world repeatedly in profound ways. This will happen many more times and is about to happen again with Google Wave.  It’s going to be a tidal wave!
Imagine email, instant messaging, document sharing and much more integrated into a real time platform.  Or don’t imagine it and just wait a few months [...]

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Obviously they can’t kill Twitter, but what about the Twitter spirit?  Over the last 4 months or so Twitter has begun to look more and more like high school.  Everyone’s trying to be one of the cool kids rather than sharing their own greatness.
How do you become cool on Twitter?  The perception is that you [...]

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So you finally got on Twitter and feel like you have nothing worthwhile to say.  You’re not alone.  I have clients asking me what to say on Twitter all the time.
First off, you really are more interesting than you think.  Just as you’re harder on your physical appearance than others are, you’re harder on what [...]

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Ironically as I help companies and professionals to build and manage their brands I’m undergoing a personal re-branding.  Later in the post I’ll go into why you need to pay attention to your personal branding. Now I’ll fill you in on how this post came to be.
A few days ago I began the process of [...]

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