links for 2007-02-06
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Courtesy of Marc LaFountain, thisis a great where are they now bit on the famous girl from Apple’s first switch campaign…
links for 2007-02-02
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Thanks to Nancy White’s Blog for pointing me to Beth Kanter’s great case study on fund raising via widgets – definitely something more people need to know about…
Chris Heuer Speaks: Content Week 2007
Chris served as the Content Week 2007 Conference Chair in San Diego, California. As chair Chris kicked off each day with a relevant presentation, moderated two panels and introduced all sessions. Additionally he wrapped up each day’s proceedings, synthesized key lessons and placed the day’s concepts in context.
Widening Participation in Unconferences
Posted by cheuer in BrainJams, Unconferences on January 31st, 2007
As I sit here and look around the room at the number of people who have paid good money to be here at Content Week, where I am serving as Conference Chair at the moment, it just occurred to me how we can get more of these wonderful, smart, caring people into conversations with us at unconferences. We will likely do this with a future Social Media Club Workshop – if you try it, please let me know how it works.
The idea is similar to what I was talking about with Chris Carfi regarding how we might be able to fully realize our spirit of social entrepreneurism in the software industry – by providing one free license to a 501(c)3 for every licensed copy sold to corporations. Perhaps even create a buddy system, or just enable the corporate purchaser to choose from a list of those non-profits who have shown sufficient interest. In fact, some non-profits who really want the software in question, would become evangelists, trying to find others who would also benefit from the software.
So what we could do with increasing corporate participation in unconferences is charge a lot of money for corporate attendees to participate – perhaps $1,500 each for a 2 day event. Each corporate participant would have ‘sponsored’ the another under-funded, but highly valued contributor to the conversation, paying for their travel expenses, and perhaps even providing a small stipend. We would need to use a few hundred dollars to offset hard costs, but the end goal is the same – to get the right people in the room, to get the costs covered and to enrich our ability to learn from each other. Perhaps we can do this with the Informl Learning Unconference we have been speaking about with Jay Cross – or perhaps use this technique to help Nancy White bring her incredibly talented crew of facilitators together.
Just an idea at this point – wonder if it has legs to run?
links for 2007-01-30
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The presentation is pretty good – the tools are awesome. Being in the software industry, I often forget how easy it is to create a simple tool that helps me get the job done without needing to write a bunch of code…
links for 2007-01-27
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Great overview of corporate blogging policies – a little outdated, but pretty informative analysis.
links for 2007-01-24
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Good blog with some great insights that Francine Hardaway shared with me
links for 2007-01-21
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Insightful blog, good perspective
Why is it so hard?
Posted by cheuer in Leadership, Personal, SocialMedia on January 18th, 2007
So blogging is really truly “as easy as writing a public email” – but sometimes it just feels so damn hard! Not the act itself, comitting an act of blogging is super easy, just as it is right now, a stream of consciousness, focused on my WordPress posp.php page. It is really the one’s that matter that are the hard ones. I could talk to people all day about the insytes I want to share (and most days that is what I do, talk to people). To actually focus those ideas into the post.php form, however, is a different story.
Last weekend, Kristie and I were having brunch with Robert and Maryam Scoble, along with Francine Hardaway, to discuss Francine’s upcoming conference in Phoenix, when Robert made it clear to me what my real problem was. I am often afraid to write something that is not perfect, that might make me look ignorant or foolish. He mentioned to me that one of the things he has really discovered and now uses as a technique, is to go ahead and write something before having a full and deep comprehension of the topic (publish or perish?) and let his commenters/readers educate him on the subject and/or correct him. Once my audience gets that big, perhaps it will work for me too, but in the meantime, I just need to hit publish more. Interestingly, Brian Oberkirch mentioned a similar approach the other day, with a very humorous slant on this, but I can’t find the post now…
The reality is that I have worked on letting go and not trying to be a perfectionist for a long time. It is the one trait I dont understand in my psyche – or rather, I don’t know where it comes from. I am certainly not perfect, and believe the Tony Robbins angle that the goal of perfection is the worst goal – to really work on being Outstanding instead as a much higher plane of being your best.
Bottom line – now that I can see this is one of the things preventing me from blogging more freqently, I can do something more about it, but I still wonder why it is so hard? Does anyone else have any ideas or thoughts or suggestions?
links for 2007-01-17
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This is a great story about the power of leveraging passionate people who care about contrbuting to their chosen field of itnerest (whether as pro or amateur). Lots to be learned from how they practice their craft…
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Great article from Micki – much more to add to this later
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Chris Heuer is the founder of Mentor Bureau, a global collaborative of Startup Mentors focused on #SmoothScaling over #Hypergrowth. He has invested his life in working to create a better society through personal and community efforts that brings people together such as Rysing Tyde and Social Media Club. To learn more about Chris, visit his profile on LinkedIn.