Seth Godin – LinchPin

May 26, 2010

Seth Godin‘s Book Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? (affiliate link) is a fantastic book. I finished it already and can’t recommend it highly enough. Here are just some of the notes I made to myself: The world I got an education and training for doesn’t exist anymore. The rules of the game has changed I can’t [...]

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Placebo Education

May 26, 2010

I’ve got a mashup of ideas in my head, but that’s not new.  Here are the pieces bumping together right now: I just finished the Seth Godin’s book Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? This month is the 28 th anniversary of my graduation from the USAF Academy I saw this video from TED where Rory Sutherland [...]

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Compilation of Restoration Photos Ship 41

May 24, 2010

Click through to see a great compilation of photos for the Delta Heritage Museum Ship 41 – DC-3 which was restored at the original Hanger 1 at Delta Air Lines headquarters.

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Podcamp SLC Video

May 21, 2010

This is a video recorded by one of the attendees at the Podcamp. I had a great time meeting the whole Salt Lake City crowd.

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Book – Monday Morning Leadership

May 1, 2010

This week, I visited with my manager before leaving on a trip.  He passed me Monday Morning Leadership: 8 Mentoring Sessions You Can’t Afford to Miss, by David Cottrell. He said this is what his boss recommended.  Here are the notes I took while reading it: Focus on the objectives not on distractions Always ask [...]

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Context is King

April 25, 2010

When I began podcasting, I remember Rob Walch always saying “Content is King; Quality is Queen.” He said compelling content was more important than a perfect recording. I took his saying and used it in more places than podcasting. I really felt that it applied to PowerPoint presentations, blog posts, videos, and so many other [...]

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Journalists embrace Social Media and So can You

February 23, 2010

The Society for New Communications Research (SNCR) just published their Key Finding from the 2009 Middleberg/SNCR Survey of Media in the Wired World.  The study involved 341 journalists from around the world with more than half from the United States.  Here are the findings I found most notable: 70 percent of journalists use social networking [...]

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WSJ on How to Establish Brand Image in Online Media

February 22, 2010

Brand Image… If you lead, teach, learn, work, manage, or not, you are a brand. How you build and manage that brand is up to you. In a recent article in the WSJ’s India Chief Mentor blog, Mahesh Murthy highlights the fact that …online media are the most important place for your brand image to [...]

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How to use Twitter

February 1, 2010

People ask me over and over “What can Twitter do for me?”   They vary from people with no online presence, people running for elected office, to business managers, and more… Watch this video then I’ll expand on what Twitter can do for you. Since this video was created, Twitter has evolved into a more mainstream [...]

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iRiver 899 – MP3 Recorder Firmware Update

January 28, 2010

This is the recorder that started it all for me.  I started podcasting in 2005 and latched on to the iRiver MP3 player because it also could record with an external or internal mic.  It is a great tool and was very popular among early podcasters.  Since then quite a few solid state recorders have [...]

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