Amid the Noise and Haste

Pecha Kucha - "The Sound of Conversation"

2007-08-23T05:48:00-04:00

You have a meeting, the conversation goes round and round, nothing is accomplished and worse yet people go off point, get distracted and you walk out wondering how to get that last hour of your life back. Enter Pecha Kucha,...

Test Your Company's Customer Focus

2007-08-23T11:10:00-04:00

From the department of common sense: Shannon Holman over at If You See Something Say Something points us to A Three-Question Test of Your Company's Customer Focus from John Hagel of Edge Perspectives. As yourselves this: Who in the organization...

Am Law 200 Firms are Becoming Social

2007-08-26T11:58:56-04:00

By way of Doug Cornelius of KM Space and Kevin O'Keefe over at LexBlog, I found out that 8 of the top 10 Am Law 200 law firms, those with the highest gross revenue, have social networks on Facebook. That's...

Free SEO Tools

2007-08-31T10:32:26-04:00

seomoz offers a toolbox on their site full of free tools to help you with search engine optimization. Really cool. Check out tools to help: Determine the strongest pages on your domain Find out what other websites are hosted on...

Is Price Your Only Differentiator?

2007-09-04T10:31:04-04:00

John Jantsch over at the Duct Tape Marketing Blog points out a key flaw in many business descriptions - and how to break out of that mold! Here is the exercise he suggestesGo to the web site of your four...

Contrary to Popular Belief, it IS Easy Being Green!

2007-09-04T13:09:21-04:00

Snap.com has made it really easy to be green with their CO2 Saver. What is it? I'll let them tell you: CO2 Saver is a lightweight program that manages your computer's power usage when it's idle, saving energy and decreasing...

Seth Godin on Labor Day

2007-09-04T22:02:04-04:00

Well said Seth. Powered by ScribeFire.

Word of Mouth Marketing - Not Working or Not Worth Talking About?

2007-09-19T23:24:52-04:00

Seth Godin, by way of Micah, points us to an article about Jupiter's new report about viral marketing, "Viral Campaigns Falling Short, Says JupiterResearch." The article states, "JupiterResearch...found that only 15% of viral campaigns in the past year achieved the...

Travel Amid the Noise and Haste

2007-10-04T10:02:45-04:00

John Jantsch over at Duct Tap Marketing has alerted us to a new handy little resource called TripIt. What does it do? According to John: "TripIt allows you to organize these details and does it in simple fashion." How does...

Google Helps Sort Through the Noise and Haste

2007-10-08T14:33:18-04:00

Google is a handy resource and we are pointed to some of the helpful tools you can use on a daily basis by two of my favorite blogs, Common Craft and Business Opportunities Blog. First, Common Craft has released their...

on Customers

2007-10-15T09:58:11-04:00

From Julie Fleischer at Forrester's Marketing Blog: "I keep hearing people ask how much control we should give our customers. What they don't realize is our customers have already taken control and we'll never have it back" So true! Powered...

Friday Fun: Left Brain vs Right Brain

2007-10-18T19:44:51-04:00

Are you a "big picture" oriented thinker with spacial perception and maybe a little impetuous? Or, are you detail oriented, practical and more reality based? Steven Levitt from the Freakonomics Blog points us to Marginal Revolution to find out. Which...

Tools that Make Blogging Easier

2007-10-22T12:36:30-04:00

Jantsch from Duct Tape Marketing posted awhile ago about a few desktop tools you can use that make it easier to blog. Here are the ones he mentioned: ScribeFire Firefox extension - officially not exactly a desktop client as it...

Strategy taking over

2007-11-05T22:59:43-05:00

So I haven't posted in quite some time...strategy has taken over. Business strategy that is; in my MBA program. It's really fascinating, but time consuming. I guess it should be. What company could survive with a slip-shot strategy in place?...

Good Vocabulary can Help end World Hunger

2007-11-09T11:51:34-05:00

For each word you get right, Free Rice donates 10 grains of rice through the UN to help end world hunger. Dust of that dictionary... You can also see the total number of donations by day. Here's a look at...

On customer service...

2007-11-27T10:04:00-05:00

From the November 26th edition of DMNews: "Whoever touches the consumer's experience needs to contribute to the experience." - Bobbi Merkel, director of convergence, TPN

Product Review - The LegalBizDev Success Kit™

2007-11-28T12:29:20-05:00

I was recently asked by Jim Hassett to review his new product The LegalBizDev Success Kit™, "an audio course and set of reference tools that will help lawyers win new business more quickly by applying best practices from other law...

LSSO launches RainDrops

2008-01-02T14:18:33-05:00

Hot off the presses from LSSO: New Year, New Things . . . from LSSO! Now there's another way to see what's hot, find out what thought leaders are thinking and get in on the action. LSSO's blog, "RainDrops", launches...

Delays, Timing, Hold-ups

2008-02-07T09:37:29-05:00

So it has been quite a while since I posted. It will begin to pick up slowly again...I have recently changed jobs which has taken me away from the blog with preparations, training, etc. I hope to be back soon,...

Team Building

2008-02-22T09:45:23-05:00

When it comes to companies with many different deparments the unfortunate downside is silos. Each department can become so focused on their own tasks at hand that the other departments become secondary in priority. There are two key things I...

"Communication delivered is not the same as communication received."

2008-02-23T11:55:53-05:00

I received an email this morning from a vendor who had to issue a me aculpa. They had sent a previous announcement with errors and with unclear information. In the email I received today they stated "Communication delivered is not...

Graduation Day from Pace University...it finally happened!

2008-07-23T08:43:12-04:00

I haven't posted in a long, long time. For the past 23 months, my time has been filled with papers and projects and teams and conference calls. But it paid of nicely. I just graduated with my MBA from Pace...

Email Directives - simple tips to curtail volume and communication issues

2008-08-05T13:11:56-04:00

I have been working with a team of people at my company to identify the issues we have been having with email. They revolve around two things: communication, or lack thereof; and volume (400 emails by lunch??). Today we launched...

Posting via Email

2008-12-24T10:04:40-05:00

This is a new thing for me - emailing to post to my blog. I have fallen off of blogging for a while and need to get back in the game. It was a crazy year: I graduated from my...

Creating a Culture of Empowerment

2009-01-19T10:11:39-05:00

In this economy, it is hard to motivate and empower employees when all around us we see lay-offs, salary freezes, and a struggle for those few openings in the job market. I just read Creating a Culture of Empowerment, an...

Speaking to the Masses

2009-01-21T11:30:41-05:00

A wonderful post from the Explainist Blog talks discusses writing as yourself; removing the corporate language to really get your point across. The post features great quotes such as: "If you work for an institution, whatever your job, whatever your...

Making Twitter More Useful for Business

2009-07-22T20:16:14-04:00

John Jantsch over at Duct Tape Marketing has some great tips for making your tweets more useful, especially for tracking ROI...a few of his suggestions include: Let’s say I find a site I think is cool and tweet it. From...

Twitter Takes a Step Toward Commercial Accounts

2009-07-25T11:30:27-04:00

Businesses have been using Twitter successfully for awhile now (see Dell article from the NY Times). Now Twitter is one step closer to a business model for making money off of this. NY Times just published "Twitter Takes a Step...

Help Support Alzheimer's Research

2009-08-25T13:42:13-04:00

I will be walking and am looking to reach my personal goal of $1,000. Please help me reach my goal by donating here: http://memorywalk09.kintera.org/longisland/katekearney Here is more information about the walk from the Alzheimer's Association: The Alzheimer's Association Memory Walk®...

Top Ten TypePad Traffic Tips

2009-12-09T08:49:02-05:00

TypePad publishes their list of Top Ten Traffic Tips to help drive traffic to your blog. There's no such thing as too much traffic. You could read SEO blogs until your eyes fall out but the truth is you don't...