Posted on June 17, 2009
It is as if Twitter invented social media. Wrong. Many of the key Twitter-isms are actually adaptations of long standing internet convention. For example, many people think that hashtags (# followed by a word or letters) was invented by Twitter users to self-organize tweets. In fact, according to Clay Shirky in his outstanding primer on …
Posted on June 16, 2009
The first few minutes of you day sets its tone. Do you jump out of bed, grab the paper, turn on the coffee pot and go onlineIf so, you might have wildly inconsistent early morning moods — often driven by your inbox or the day's headlines. Don't leave your attitude and mood to chance, …
Posted on June 15, 2009
Here's a condensed version of my new keynote Mojo Rising: Overcome the scarcity mindset Vimeo version (downloadable) It's taken from my recent keynote at the Womens Foodservice Forum in Dallas (March 2009). This is my current focus on the lecture circuit — helping organizations reclaim their confidence and embrace the abundance mentality. This is …
Posted on June 12, 2009
Uber-musician Dave Stewart closed out the YIBC event in the UK last week. He talked about creativity, the future of media and marketing. He works for brands such as Nokia, developing what he calls "weapons of mass entertainment." He's also brilliant. Like myself, he had two lectures on Friday: Bridlington and Harrogate. During his …
Posted on June 11, 2009
Here's a short clip from one of my recent keynote speeches. Watch: Generosity Will Rewire You If you are gripped with "not enough to go around," try giving until it hurts. I promise you, your mind will change. Generosity from Tim Sanders on Vimeo. Book me to speak at your next event!
Posted on June 10, 2009
After thinking about what I heard from John Cleese last week at the Yorkshire International Business Convention, I've decided to summarize three more of his concepts for creative thinking: First, schedule your creative solution/creativity time and wall out any distractions. He explained that creativity requires intense focus, and you likely need to schedule a few …
Posted on June 9, 2009
Here's an old clip I loved to show when making online marketing presentations back in 2000-2001. The clip includes a silly promotion for a juice. You use the bottle to make a lamp! The ad buy on TV was guess-work at best, there were hardly any metrics in place to measure incremental sales — …
Posted on June 9, 2009
Your network is your net worth. This is the battle cry of Love Is The Killer App. Over the last decade, our tools for networking building have grown exponentially. I'm reading the excellent book Here Comes Everybody, that argues that the costs for building groups (networked people) have dropped to ZERO. Which means that we'll …
Posted on June 8, 2009
"Just let your mind work on it overnight." I'm just returning from a speaking engagement at the Yorkshire Int'l Business Convention in the UK. It was a life-changing experience. One of …
Posted on June 5, 2009
When one of your biz partners (employee, vendor, coworker) is on his or her annual summer vacation – do them a favor and leave them alone! When I worked at Yahoo, I put my employee’s vacation days into my calendar to remind me to leave them off threads or BCC/CCs. When there was an email …
