I’m worried about your blog. Wait, let me back up. ve been reviewing my reader’s blogs and overall their content is spectacular and they are run by extremely passionate people. But the same little mistakes keep popping up. believe that every visitor to your blog makes a decision about your worth within a few seconds. They subconsciously tally up 10 factors that dictate if they’ll support and promote you. Aside from these factors, there are little missteps that may be hurting you now. Today we are going to get you straightened out. Don’t beat yourself up about what I’m about to show you. MORE >>

A popular topic amongst social media folks is the ongoing discussion around how many likes/followers a person or organization has and how much that matters. Most folks will usually side on how the numbers do not matter, and what’s more important is engagement, conversions, and whether those connections actually result in contributing to business results. All of this is is very true. Having a large social reach is certainly useless if none of those other things are happening. But I can tell you from experience that anyone that says the size of your reach does not matter is flat out wrong. MORE >>

Tweet This post is in response to my great conversation mate, Brett Florio‘s, comment on my last big Gamification Post, Gamification: In Defense of a Buzzword. If you weren’t privy to the comments on that post, go read them. Brett and I had a LONG conversation about the merits and uses of Gamification and poked [.]. Gamification Social Media game dynamics gamification how to effectively use gamification internal gamification motivating sales teams motivating teams sales teams social media what is gamification MORE >>

I’m not going to lie. I’m obsessed with Pinterest. blame my sister. She’s an enabler. Since its launch, I’ve been a big proponent of it. It’s, in a sense, an online scrapbook. You find images and videos you like and “pin” them to your online boards. For instance, I have “ must make ,” “ winter training ,” “ books worth reading ,” “ gift ideas ,” and more that feed my creativity. But the best part? The “what do you want for dinner” discussion has left our house. was right. Hold a contest. MORE >>

It’s a typical, grey, Michigan winter day. People are heading home trotting quickly to their cars bundled against the cold air. One cube warrior walks a touch slower than the rest. He’s lost in thought. You can see the steam rising from his moving lips. It looks like he’s recording something into one of those iPhone headsets. He even stops once to tap a quick note into his phone. In a minute, he gets in his car, shuts the door, and takes out a moleskin stashed in the center console. He spends 5 minutes scribbling down an idea. Starting the car, he vanishes into the late commute traffic. MORE >>