TWOSIX.TWO: The shortest distance to enlightenment - Latest Comments

Re: New link paste: now with more sticky

Tristan Cuschieri — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:39:23 -0000

Certainly an innovative idea. It really opens up ideas as to what else you could code your site to do when a user copies content to the clipboard.

Re: New link paste: now with more sticky

Derek Steen — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 09:21:06 -0000

That's a rad piece of copy/paste magic on the Sports Illustrated blog!

It's extremely rare that I would share a few lines of text with friends/family though. I typically share links. Sometimes entire IM conversations with friends is just links.

If I were to use the fancy JS feature to copy & paste a quote, it would be on Twitter, and a short URL back to the post at the end of the tweet would be the icing on the del.icio.us cake.

Re: New link paste: now with more sticky

Kye Grace — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:41:45 -0000

This is sweet! I was just reading a blog from which I wanted to share a snippet of on Twitter but the snippet would have been so out of context it would have no value to my followers. This seems to be a reasonable solution.

Re: Facebook Events: A Double-Edged Sword

Ted Rheingold — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:43:23 -0000

Great tips. thx

Re: Conversation means blue skies for vendors

djwaldow — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:35:40 -0000

Neil:

Wow. Thanks for taking the time to blog about this. I'm happy we could point your client in the right direction. I shared this blog post with our entire company today as I believe it is why we do what we do. As you said, "Good business is about the conversation." I could not agree more.

Looking forward to connecting again soon.

DJ Waldow
Director of Community, Blue Sky Factory
@djwaldow

(P.S. You know Maddy Hubbard, huh?)

Re: Caring is currency – throw your pennies away.

Sue John — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 13:08:49 -0000

Your comment "...we forget the value of what we know" really hit home for me. I am one of those that had forgotten the value of I "what I know," lacking the confidence to put myself out there. However over the last 6 months I have been turning that around. I am not quite at the stage where I feel able to give out pennies, but I am happy to offer candy :)

Re: Caring is currency – throw your pennies away.

Keith Burtis — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 23:05:42 -0000

This is a great article that really hits the point of what many of us call karma, reciprocation or inbound marketing. No matter what you call it I believe it is very true. In order to receive anything of value whether that is money, love or friendship you MUST put something of value out there. If you want to be healthy and have a high quality of life you MUST put the proper food into your body and couple that with a good attitude.

I have come into contact lately with a few people who were very down on the world and very down on themselves. It's interesting because if you told them to walk up to a stranger and hand them a penny they would probably tell you to bugger off. Life doesn't work that way. You get more of what you think about. Hand a penny to a stranger and you'll get pennies back.

A personal story: Three years ago I was working in a job that I hated. Could barely make ends meet and my car had just broken down. While at work I was listening to the radio and they had a local nonprofit that was asking for people to call in and donate $20.00 to get loaded backpacks for school children that could not afford them. I called, i donated and from that day forward my life has been different. Within the next month I lost my job, found a new one that paid 4x what the old one did and I have been on an uphill climb ever since.

It was not about the giving of that $20 so much as it was a change in thinking. If you give to others without expectation you will be repaid in multiples. The key here is to give because your heart tells you to.

@KeithBurtis

Re: Skip the events, create the network

Kate Klingensmith — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:16:21 -0000

"Networking" can seem contrived, no matter if it's the marketing event or grassroots get-together. The only solution is to be authentic - get into conversations out of interest and passion, not just self-interest. Talk to new people because you're interested in what they know and can teach you, not because you have something to tell them. It's easy to forget that this new generation of "networking" is just that, because if you're doing it right, it feels more like socializing than the former.

Great advice - there's a ton of potential in forming communities and having daily conversation. Events are great places for people to meet face-to-face, but the difference in value-add of a one-time interaction versus a continuous relationship is huge. Thanks for the reminder!

Re: Why Taylor Swift Should Thank Kanye West

Derek Steen — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 04:50:20 -0000

The only reason I know about this is because I was Skyping with Rachel while she was watching the VMA.

Rachel was up in arms about the Taylor/Kanye bit, and soon after I saw tons of reaction on Twitter.

I definitely don't care about this event, yet I know what happened thanks to the Internet. I didn't pursue it at all. It came to me even when I didn't want it to. I'm not going to care about either artist more, or go and buy their albums; I'm in the minority though. And that doesn't even matter because their names are in my head. Ugh.

You hit this whole topic spot on, Neil!

Re: Yammer: Do you care what you’re working on?

Derek Steen — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:26:03 -0000

I loved imagining every park of this post: walking down to another person at my work place, talking to them, learning, sharing, caring.

My only issue is that the majority of my work is at a computer ("It's inside the computer??!!?!), online.

I do share my knowledge at every chance I get though.

I know Google Wave will be a fantastic internal social networking tool and it will make collaboration much more convenient and quick.

That said, I wish there was a nerd down the street I could bounce ideas with.

*Hides back in bubble*

Re: Start now – thank yourself later

Derek Steen — Fri, 08 May 2009 23:27:02 -0000

Oh boy, I've had this post/tab open since you linked me to it and finally got around to reading it.

I totally agree. Start whatever you love and the passion that ignited the flame will keep going the more you do whatever it is you love.

I'm loving every moment of Sweet Adventures! Thanks for the shout out! :)

Re: Blame is not a metric

jascha kaykas-wolff — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:04:35 -0000

it's incredibly difficult for most businesses, let alone fortune 100 enterprise businesses to admit and embrace the notion that failure is a path to enlightenment. we've been conditioned that anything we do can be done right (or it shouldn't be done at all). the truth is that accidents, failures, mistakes all lead to one thing. Learning. if you repeat the same mistake twice...well that is another story. nice post.

Re: Blame is not a metric

Ric Dragon — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:13:31 -0000

Excellent post. Both topics are worth more discussion.

Re: Spring is here; de-clutter your website

jascha kaykas-wolff — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:22:22 -0000

great post Neil. 'block the exits' is incredibly important. in running quite a few different commerce site I used to use my analytics tools to identify top exit pages and also 'error' pages. it's sometimes not intuitive to look to the errors/issues for opportunities however, in my experience, it's some of the best chance for success. again, great post!

Re: Spring is here; de-clutter your website

Ric — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 23:36:52 -0000

Housecleaning is good, but I say storing things in the attic is not a bad idea... just make a big notice on the top of those pages, "ARCHIVED".... still good for the Google footprint.

Re: Spring is here; de-clutter your website

Tristan Cuschieri — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 23:23:09 -0000

Fantastic post. Everything makes sense. I love the analogies. I'll be looking into reworking a site soon, at which point I'll be re-reading this for sure.

Re: Skittles – Taste the Revolution?

Tristan Cuschieri — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 09:59:38 -0000

Mr. Steen (previous comment) is right. I was confused at first, and my life is already steeped in Twitter. I thought I had followed the wrong link by accident.

It's a clever strategy, to be sure. Kudos to Skittles. But hype like this wears down fast unless there is a powerful driving force behind it, keeping it up to date and interesting. It won't take long for this to die out and be forgotten.

Re: Skittles – Taste the Revolution?

Derek Steen — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 02:44:34 -0000

If I didn't know about Twitter and I went to Skittles.com, I would be totally confused: "What is all this text junk and this floating box? Aren't skittles more colourful than this?"

If Skittles wants a Twitter presence, then they should speak to the person who currently owns twitter/skittles, and then use that to leverage social media customers.

And if the Skittles website is still like that in two weeks, then I'm buying a packet of M&Ms. (Oh, cripes, M&Ms are owned by Mars, Inc... maybe they won after all?)

Re: Are you in the business of making friends or enemies?

Rachel Reuben — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:00:47 -0000

You are a great story teller. But, more importantly, I love how you intertwine key take aways for businesses and individuals here too. Good on you. :) Keep us posted!

Re: Are you in the business of making friends or enemies?

Tristan Cuschieri — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:39:21 -0000

Great information. I enjoy your writing style. In this age of the internet and social media, telemarketing really is going the way of the VHS. There are few phone calls I hate more than those ones that give you those seconds of silence while you know a computer is connecting you to someone sitting at a desk in a row of 100 cubicles with a headset and a binder.

Re: Are you in the business of making friends or enemies?

Sato Canada — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:25:34 -0000

Very insightful post. Btw, your "Cranberry Resort" link doesn't seem to be working.