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Social Media Innovation in Oprah’s Network

May 20, 2011

Today, in her final days before she moves on from two decades of making seemingly impossible things possible, Oprah is ending her show with a huge gift, one of the best gifts ever–the gift of an education to 1000 children in Zimbabwe. She will be working with a wonderful woman named Tererai who is giving back [...]

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Social Networking, Bicycles, Kids and “Do the Work!”

May 2, 2011

I just finished our first “Worlds Biggest Book Club” with our first book, and still free on Kindle for 18 more days, called “Do the Work” by Steven Pressfield whose credits include a number of movies including “The Legend of Baggar Vance.” In that movie we are inspired by the following dialogue: Bagger Vance: See, [...]

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Chocolate, Peanut Butter and Social Media Innovation

April 30, 2011

During talks I often share my insights on creativity and innovation using the line, “A billion-dollar business was born when chocolate collided with peanut butter. For those of you who love Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups and Reese’s Pieces (remember ET?) you will resonate with the amazing growth in this brand and all of its brand [...]

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Selling the Love: Social Networking at It’s Best

April 3, 2011

I’m on an airplane flying from Charleston, South Carolina back to Chicago after visiting my two sisters there for a week. Thanks to Southwest Airlines, great trust-building agents (per Chris Brogan), I am now riffing off of Southwest’s magazine and it’s great article on Colleen Barrett, President Emeritus of Southwest. She and Ken Blanchard of [...]

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Networlding Steps #1 and #2 – Social Networking on Steroids

March 22, 2011

Step #1: Determine Your Values and Value Priorities The first step of Networlding is to choose your top four values and then prioritize them? For example, our values are: 1) making a difference,  2) integrity, 3) collaboration, 4) innovation. What are you top values? What drives you each day? Take about a week or two to [...]

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Andrew Carnegie and Seth Godin’s Poke the Box

March 7, 2011

I’ve been reading the autobiography of Andrew Carnegie and enjoying the powerful journey Carnegie took throughout his life, contributing to others by creating housing, ins urance and other financial funds for those who worked in his steel mills. In 1901 Carnegie Steel merged with the U.S. Steel Corporation and Carnegie sold out to J.P. Morgan for [...]

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What Would Oprah’s OWN and The Domino Project Look Like Together?

February 7, 2011

What would it look like if you merged Seth Godin’s long awaited Domino Project with the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN)? You would have Oprah the Queen of Books working with Seth the Prince of Publishing. I believe it would be an exceptional partnership. As part of the project team for the Domino Project I have [...]

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Best Networkers – Best Practices

January 18, 2011

The best networkers never sit on their contacts like misers hoarding gold. instead, they are constantly evaluating who they know, determining what leads are worth keeping and what leads no longer meet their needs. Many people put all their energy into planning, forgetting that the real growth takes place after the plan has been developed. As [...]

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The Best Networlding Businesses Across the Country

January 14, 2011

Contest to Find the Best Networlding Businesses! We are looking for the best Networlding businesses around the U.S. How do you know if a business is a great Networlding company? Please answer the following questions about the company or companies that you think are the best places to Networld. Help us by naming and answering [...]

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I Dreaming of a . . .

December 25, 2010

In this big networked world, I just wanted to take a moment and recognize the very basics in life–a yearning to be connected. We are losing connection, most of all, with ourselves that, often, we don’t even recognize what is happening. What does this picture to the right say to you? I see a dog [...]

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