One of the things that continually delights me about 'doing business online' is the rather more 'abundant' mindset which tends to go with it - compared with the 'scarcity' attitude so typical of 'old school', 'bricks and mortar' business where typically your competitors are 'The Enemy'. I used to wa...

Nothing to do with social media per se... other than how I heard about this (saw Kick-Ass Karen Skidmore's tweet): There's a new TeleForum which many of you will want to know about... In How to Promote Your TeleSeminars Using Joint Ventures, Karen will be sharing, "What you need to know about using ...

A Man-Making blog reader, Charley M., sent along an article link from the Wall Street Journal asking a great question, Where in the World is Octodad? Octodad is the invisible, anonymous, non-participating, and possibly well-intended but victimized father of Nadya Suleman’s 14 children. Nadya is th...

If you exchange gifts during the holidays, I'll bet you received at least one gift that was totally wrong for you.  I'm talking about the gift that made you scratch your head and say to yourself "What the heck am I going to do with this?"  Perhaps aunt Maggie purchased that red-feathered fedora (s...

Balderdash, you say. What ever is she talking about? Too long a long weekend, perhaps? Nope, just inspired by my newly-discovered expert on social networking tools -- Chris Brogan. The guy's fantastically insightful, imaginative and (most critically) realistic. I recommend you add his blog to your r...

Balderdash, you say. What ever is she talking about? Too long a long weekend, perhaps? Nope, just inspired by my newly-discovered expert on social networking tools -- Chris Brogan. The guy's fantastically insightful, imaginative and (most critically) realistic. I recommend you add his blog to your r...

OK, truth be told - in her role as Business Blog Angel Team Blogger, Joanna (left), had prepared 2 posts sooner than that last one - it was me that held them up because I wanted to finish something else I was working on before they went out.  Seems reasonable doesn't it, but it was taking ages ...

The New York Times Technology Circuits What's Next: Making a Web Search Feel Like a Stroll in the Library: "But researchers are working on more flexible approaches to searching for digital information not only on the Web, but on one's own hard drive, where elusive details may be scattered through ph...

Great Hackers: "In programming, as in many fields, the hard part isn't solving problems, but deciding what problems to solve. Imagination is hard to measure, but in practice it dominates the kind of productivity that's measured in lines of code." Paul Graham This essay on what makes a great hacker i...