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• More thoughts on using social media in business

  Published: July 26, 2007, 8:10 am

  Tags: Communication Tools, Giving Information, Googlejuice, Leadership Amp Management, World Of Ewan

  I'm spending a day with some folk from Scottish Enterprise, Scotland's highly successful economic development agency. We're taking a look at how some of the older ideas I've been developing on social media for small, medium and large companies might work north of the Border. I'll be keen to see if we can maybe develop some new innovative ideas on

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• Get a Grip...

  Published: July 22, 2007, 10:10 pm

  Tags: Leadership, Starting Point

  I'm in the final stages of prep for next week's run of Getting a Grip on Groups. I enjoy meeting leaders from other churches around the country and seeing their passion to help others connect. Here's a previous post about the overall intent of the workshop. After each workshop, I hope that I won't have a lot of revisions to make before the next

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• $50 Rebate Offer

  Published: July 17, 2007, 7:01 am

  Tags: Leadership

  get a $50 rebate from your Leadership Summit registration fee! No UPC codes to send in, no original cash register receipts, and we do accept photocopies of the registration form. Need more? You won't have to wait 8 - 12 weeks to receive your check in the mail! Why would we do this? We are really grateful for who you are and what you do! It's a

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• Blogging Rules from Tony

  Published: July 2, 2007, 7:03 am

  Tags: Leadership

  Had a chance to hear Tony Morgan speak on Friday morning on his "Top 10 Reasons to Stop Blogging". He loves sarcasm. Double negatives are too hard for me, so I took notes to create the positive version of "Top 10 Things to do When Blogging." For those of you considering it or who want to grade me, here's what I heard Tony say. 1. Know who your

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• Bush Misled Us Into Iraq

  Published: July 25, 2007, 7:19 pm

  Tags: Political, Misled, Manipulated, Countless, Liar, Parts, Ability, Responsibility, Leadership

  nothing more than a lack of leadership ability on their parts in that they... Visit Big Dog's Weblog for the rest of the story...

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• What Makes A Great Conference? Lessons From Shop.Org.

  Published: July 24, 2007, 4:24 am

  Tags: Customer Satisfaction, Leadership, Marketing Tips, Web Analytics, Web Metrics, Usability, Search Engine Marketing, Blogging

  One of life’s wonderful joys is the opportunity to speak at a conference. It is an experience to stand in front of a crowd (remember I am an introvert!) and speak about something I am passionate about. Late last week I gave the keynote at the shop.org merchandising event in San Diego. Usually after a conference I present my key learnings.

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• The Promise & Challenge of Behavior Targeting (& Two Prerequisites)

  Published: July 31, 2007, 3:53 am

  Tags: Analytics, Customer Satisfaction, Leadership, Marketing Tips, Voice Of Customer, Web Analytics, Web Metrics, Advanced Analytics, Web Insights, Usability, Search Engine Marketing, Behavior Marketing, Behavioral Targeting, Doubleclick, Kefta, Onsite Targeting, Tacoda, Touch

  I am a NPR junkie (and support my local station KALW). Driving to the airport last Monday I was surprised to hear a segment about “behavior marketing”. NPR covers everything of course but for some reason it was surprising to hear of the current technology cool thing on NPR! Now that NPR has covered this I feel I am late to the party!!

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• How much do schools really value pupils' views?

  Published: August 1, 2007, 11:18 am

  Tags: Audience, Communication Tools, Creativity, Digital Image, Ltsfutures, Leadership Amp Management, Safety, Socialisation

  Time for a story? When I was a school pupil I worked all six years of secondary school on the school magazine, the Pupils' View. The name of the magazine was the title, the mission, the raison d' tre of the whole thing. It made life easy. And it made life difficult, too. When I was editor we sold up to 700 copies of it four times a year at

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• How much do schools really value pupils' views?

  Published: August 1, 2007, 11:18 am

  Tags: Audience, Communication Tools, Creativity, Digital Image, Ltsfutures, Leadership Management, Safety, Socialisation

  Time for a story? When I was a school pupil I worked all six years of secondary school on the school magazine, the Pupils' View. The name of the magazine was the title, the mission, the raison d'??tre of the whole thing. It made life easy. And it made life difficult, too. When I was editor we sold up to 700 copies of it four times a year at

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• More thoughts on using social media in business

  Published: July 26, 2007, 8:06 am

  Tags: Communication Tools, Giving Information, Googlejuice, Leadership Management, World Of Ewan

  I'm spending a day with some folk from Scottish Enterprise, Scotland's highly successful economic development agency. We're taking a look at how some of the older ideas I've been developing on social media for small, medium and large companies might work north of the Border. I'll be keen to see if we can maybe develop some new innovative ideas on

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• Extreme Learning by any other name?

  Published: August 13, 2007, 1:43 pm

  Tags: Assessment, Building Schools, Collaborative Learning, Ltsfutures, Leadership Amp Management, Edubuzz, East Lothian Council, Extreme Learning, New Brunswick, Rich Tasks, Edubuzz, Elcouncil

  About now teachers across Scotland go back to school, the kids joining them later on this week. For secondary teachers comes that interesting moment of meeting your new 'S1' students, the ones just out of primary school. At this time another feeling would come into my mind: "I just can't do this French textbook with them; it'll bore them silly

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• Extreme Learning by any other name?

  Published: August 13, 2007, 1:43 pm

  Tags: Assessment, Building Schools, Collaborative Learning, Ltsfutures, Leadership Management, Edubuzz, East Lothian Council, Extreme Learning, New Brunswick, Rich Tasks, Edubuzz, Elcouncil

  About now teachers across Scotland go back to school, the kids joining them later on this week. For secondary teachers comes that interesting moment of meeting your new 'S1' students, the ones just out of primary school. At this time another feeling would come into my mind: "I just can't do this French textbook with them; it'll bore them

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• Dept. Of Leadership: What the Fuck Is Wrong With Rudy Giuliani?

  Published: August 15, 2007, 6:20 pm

  Tags: 2008, 9 11, Animals, Dept Of Leadership, Drag, Fascists, Freaks, Gop, Racists, Republicans, Rudy Giuliani, Welfare, Youtube

  Here he is, America’s Mayor of Terrorism, dressed up in a fucking weird costume again. Oh, and berating a zoo animal for being on welfare — ha ha, it’s funny because of all the blacks on welfare! No wait, it’s racist because he’s dressed up as … John Travolta in Battleship Scientologia? We don’t know.

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• Map of Future Forces Affecting Education

  Published: August 16, 2007, 2:06 am

  Tags: Building Schools, Digital Image, Ltsfutures, Leadership Amp Management, Socialisation

  The KnowledgeWorks Foundation and the Institute of the Future have come up with a fascinating interactive map of the future forces affecting education. It shows the significant overlap between technology and physical community spaces, and their interplay with schools. Clicking on each element reveals more detail and an invitation to a

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• Market Motive: Internet Marketing Knowledge On Tap

  Published: August 16, 2007, 3:48 am

  Tags: Analytics, Customer Satisfaction, Leadership, Marketing Tips, Voice Of Customer, Web Analytics, Web Metrics, Advanced Analytics, Web Insights, Usability, Search Engine Marketing, Internet Marketing, Market Motive, Online Pr Strategies, Search Engine Marketing Success

  John, Michael and I are starting a new company that will provide the knowledge you need to excel at internet marketing. Our Mission : Knowledge on demand, of consistently high quality, always fresh, to solve your real world problems, right now. Introducing… We are all very passionate about education and through Market Motive we hope to

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