Click on the image below to take a test assessing your organization based on the four human elements we describe in Humanize as defining (for us) a human organization. The test will take about 15 minutes, and we’ll send you individual results. See how deep the rabbit hole goes. photo credit ). Humanize Useful Data MORE >>

Gidgett Ingalls. Reading Susan Cain’s book Quiet:   The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking certainly leads to thinking about the world we live in, our own ladders of inference and the value we place on personality. encourage you to watch her TED Talk – link below. link]. am a firm believer that we all need to be true to ourselves, who we are at our core.  Only by being true to our core can we be our BEST selves. In her four-part book, Susan Cain walks the reader through what she calls the historical change in the U.S. Did you know that Dale Carnegie was an introvert?  MORE >>

Today’s guest post is written by Susan Young. Content curation is the hot ticket item in social media and business these days. Content curators — or editors — find, sort, categorize, and distill the big data and vast amount of content that’s available. While G oogle alerts  will locate and list stories and articles, and platforms such as  Paper.li  may work for amateurs,  good content curation requires the human factor — someone with a pulse — to make sense of the collective information chaos. It is a big time business. Author Steven Rosenbaum writes in Curation Nation. They fact-check. MORE >>

It’s no surprise that advertising professionals are advocates of social media. We research, test, and execute marketing campaigns on a daily basis and they design these campaigns with the purpose of delivering a message to a targeted group of prospects. Social media not only allows for highly targeted messaging but it’s extremely scalable. The message can be sent and re-sent by the recipients. This inherently viral component, along with the ability to measure it, makes it very appealing for use. But are “Normal” or non-advertising professionals using it the same way? MORE >>

More Blog Promotion Tips. Congratulations for reading this post. Most folks run in terror when they see the word “metrics”. Ironically, metrics are critical for your blog’s success. Getting comfortable with your blog’s “numbers” helps you diagnose problems and improve your performance. As a business owner you should expect your blog to “pay its own way”. Knowing your numbers will help you focus your efforts and achieve your objectives. wrote this post keeping two assumptions in mind: 1) You have little time to fiddle with your blog. I get it. Pay Attention to These Four Numbers. MORE >>