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Join Me! Social Media Strategies Summit 4/18-19

March 16, 2012   Self-Development

On April 18-19, GSMI’s Social Media Strategies Summit makes it to my backyard here in Chicago! I’m completely jazzed about this… I’ve keynoted at 2 previous GSMI conferences, and this time, I get to run a track session. Which I think is fantastic because I’ve found the quality of the tracks at GSMI’s conferences to [...]

 

What Do You Stand For?

March 14, 2012   Communications

If there was any doubt left in anyone’s mind, the recent Kony 2012 video phenomenon should make one thing clear: Emotional advocacy > Rational discourse You can see the same idea at work in the titles on the NYTimes bestsellers list today: Becoming China’s Bitch (“Solutions to the challenges that threaten America”) and Indivisible (“An examination of politics, [...]

 

“Please, All I Really Want Is a Job I Can Hate.”

March 11, 2012   Personal

Thinking of starting your own business? I get asked often what it’s like starting a business. I get asked this by people who tell me they hate their jobs and can’t wait to have enough money/time/energy/opportunity to start their own gigs. Really? Entrepreneurship, I’m learning, is about 3 things: 1. Sales. 2. Having the hard [...]

 

Don’t Just Innovate, Be “Innovocative,”

March 9, 2012   Communications

Innovocative. Kind of defines itself, doesn’t it? Innovative + provocative. Things can be innovocative. The Segway, iPad, Vibram’s FiveFinger shoes, the artificial heart, the Tesla Roadster… it’s a long list of innovations that get people thinking. Music, and certainly dance, can be innovocative. Elvis Presley, the Velvet Underground, Sugarhill Gang, and Eminem come to mind. [...]

 

Turn into the Slide

March 6, 2012   Personal

During the first, snowy winter after I turned 16, my dad took me to a parking to teach me how to control a turn on slick asphalt. He wanted to experience the car skidding out from under me, and how to turn into the slide. He taught me to stay on the gas turn into the [...]

 

How to Stand Out When All You Have is Potential

March 2, 2012   Self-Development

Ugh. I found someone who I thought would be a perfect role model, and I’d been trying to emulate his path to success, but it wasn’t working because he had broader life experiences, a deeper body of work, and a more powerful network—assets I didn’t have. What worked for him left me spinning my wheels. [...]

 

VNLA ICE

March 1, 2012   Personal

I like to find small ways to make people smile. This is the latest. (Why not?)   Jason Seiden is Co-founder and CEO of Ajax Social Media, a training company that shows professionals how use social media to work more effectively.

 

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