Part 1: Recycling Plant
What’s the difference between a recycling plant and recycling a plant? Just to clarify, I am not speaking about agriculture here; in my urban Chicagoland jungle, plant means industry. As is my nature, after moving to a new location, I frenetically bushwhack through metropolitan mulch. I dodge chain restaurants like weeds (aside from Chipotle) and sniff out those hidden flowers that flash the true colors of the city.
My recent harried wanderings have …

It hasn’t been a slow day so far in the world of social media and tech. Check out these interesting stories about what’s going on:
1. Facebook developer Buddy Media buys Spinback
2. Using Social Media is all about implementation
3. Informative story about Facebook’s PR attack against Google
4. Are tech stocks popular again?
5. Costin Raiu talks about the security risks of Google’s new Chromebook.

Being a leader is about more than just getting from point A to point B. Sometimes you need to be creative as well. No one is demanding that you re-paint the Mona Lisa, but you do need to have either a) some creative ideas of your own b) the forethought to hire people who do. Of course if it was that easy nothing would ever go wrong, but in fact creativity is a multi-step process. You …

No matter how inane or frivolous your last tweet was, someone out there thinks it’s pretty important.  It used to be that when a company wanted to get the pulse of “the man/woman on the street” they went to elaborate, expensive and time intensive lengths to do so.  Well, thanks to the modern miracle of something called Sentiment Analysis, one man’s constant stream of trite, annoying and far too personal blathering is another man’s gold.
Sentiment …

I’ve volunteered a few times and each time I’ve regretted it. My first encounter with selflessness was a few years back. A friend roped me into teaching English to a group of foreign students striving to attain US citizenship for 10 hours a week. “Easy”, I remember thinking, “I’ll pop on a tweed blazer, puff on a pipe, and teach everyone in ear-shot advanced English while making a bunch of new friends.”
My dream was shattered …

This blog has often been a forum to discuss how leaders can use technology to sell, promote, and push their message. Namely, we’ve been focusing on how social media can help leaders and organizations gain and sustain momentum.
When we look at the political landscape we often talk about multi-million dollar political campaigns, glossy advertising, and the dubious role of lobbyists. This is changing in the social technology age. Political campaigns are becoming more grounded and …