My Social Media Thanksgiving

To get in the spirit of the Thanksgiving holiday, I want to share my social media thank you’s.
The following four companies are my Thanksgiving dinner – my turkey, mashed potatoes, cranberries and pumpkin pie.
Others may argue that there are  more important social media websites or companies, but just like the key components for a Thanksgiving [...]

Outliers – Success Is Complex

According to Wikipedia, an outlier “is an observation that is numerically distant from the rest of the data.”  When you look at successful people from a distant, the general notion is that they got there through intelligence and ambition.
In his new book, Outliers: The Story of Success, social commentator and journalist Malcolm Gladwell explains that [...]

Are You Doing “Good Work”?

I read an interesting article in the Sunday NY Times by Daniel Goleman called “It May Be a Good Job, But Is It “Good Work”?”. [BTW, Daniel is the author of the 1995 book "Emotional Intelligence" and the 2006 book "Social Intelligence: The Science of Human Relationships".]
The article discussed the difference between a “good job” [...]

The Freedom Trail and Social Media

How am I going to link Boston’s famous Freedom Trail to Social Media?
Here’s how.  I’m spending a day in Boston for a business meeting.  I arrived this afternoon and had time to go out for a quick run before it got dark.
The Freedom Trail is a 2.5 mile “red-brick walking trail that leads you to [...]

What I’ve Learned About Drupal (So Far)

I’ve spent most of this week documenting the requirements for a new community that will likely be using Drupal as their community platform.  So, I found myself on the Drupal website and have chased down a number of Drupal links.
Before this week, I didn’t know much about Drupal and considered myself a dyed-in-the-wool community enterprise [...]