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Today’s irresistible links
Links to stories culled from the magic pipes:
Amazing Race: E-Waste Violators’ Best Friend because trash is one of those characteristics of modern life that shocks, worries and amazes me (‘The average American throws away a staggering 4.5 pounds of rubbish daily.’).
Vice’s Q & A with Terry Gillam because I’ve enjoyed just about everything he [...]
Posted in Story Links | Also tagged arrests, brothels, bugs, Christianity, climate, cults, debt, entrepreneurship, environment, fatherhood, insects, Islam, news, prostitution, Terry Gillam | Leave a comment
Provide solutions to the problems that your stories create
Summary: In today’s information environment, making and selling a product is not a sustainable business. A product is not an end, but a beginning, and a gateway to the real business: providing services around that product.
Inspiration: A CNN story about Riversimple, a company from the U.K. that has come up with a hydrogen-powered, less-poluting city [...]
Posted in News Business, Newsroomnext | Also tagged cars, environment, information warfare, media, news, pollution, service | Leave a comment
The $37.85 billion-dollar question
As newspapers hunt for new revenues, what exactly would they be selling to their customers if they started charging for their online information?
Or if I had an article in my pocket about a subject of my choosing, written in a way that I prefer, and I hinted at the content with nothing more than a [...]
Posted in News Business | Also tagged customers, earnings, experiences, journalism, meaning, media, news, profits, Psychology, revenue, story, Storytelling | Leave a comment
Self-management lessons from Harvard Business Review: The power of I-boss, the CEO of me
Summary: If you view your life as a complex corporation and are in need of management advice, then Harvard Business Review’s article about the unique role of the CEO (“What Only the CEO Can Do”) gives some great ideas on connecting that little voice in your head with the outside world.
I cannot resist Harvard Business [...]
Posted in Overthink | Also tagged A.G. Lafley, attitudes, beliefs, CEO, change, goals, Harvard Business Review, management, Overthink, personal development, Peter Drucker, self-help | Leave a comment
In shift to virtual life, profit lacks purpose
With a steady flow of information highlighting the news industry’s woes, I couldn’t help but begin to wonder about the Internet’s transformation of the larger economic and cultural structures in which businesses, people and, oh, everything else, operate.
In the most dramatically general sense, the human race is shifting from reality to virtual reality.
This is [...]
Posted in Scarcity to Abundance | Also tagged abundance, beliefs, capitalism, competition, Culture, faith, future, information, Internet, news, philosophizing, profit, scarcity, transformation | Leave a comment
Article in The Albuquerque Tribune: N.M. online journalists, bloggers predict how news will morph on the Web
When 17-year-old University of New Mexico freshman John Perry wants news about Albuquerque, he doesn’t pick up a paper. Instead, he visits four Web sites, one of which is run by volunteers, employs no journalists and isn’t trying to be a news organization.
It’s called Duke City Fix , and even though Perry enjoys the group [...]
Posted in News Business, Newsroomnext, Portfolio | Also tagged Albuquerque, Albuquerque Tribune, articles, journalism, media, New Mexico, news, newspaper, Portfolio | Leave a comment
Article in The Albuquerque Tribune: PNM prices expected to be lower this winter
Albuquerque resident Ed Benavidez says this winter’s natural gas bills aren’t hammering his pocketbook yet, but he’s ready for things to get worse.
With cold weather and snow flurries expected this weekend, they just might. But Public Service Company of New Mexico has a little good news to offset the bad.
The company estimates more natural gas [...]
Posted in Portfolio | Also tagged Albuquerque, Albuquerque Tribune, articles, energy, gas prices, New Mexico, newspaper, PNM, Portfolio, utilities | Leave a comment
Article in The Albuquerque Tribune: High-octane business networking: Greet. Meet fleet. Repeat.
When David Padilla went to meet 17 other local business people brought to an office in northeast Albuquerque by Ria Botzler, one of the first questions he had was about the rubber-ducky necklaces.
“We don’t have to wear these, right?” he asked Ralynn Botzler, Ria’s sister and volunteer coordinator of the event Ria describes as “speed-dating [...]
Posted in Photos, Portfolio | Also tagged Albuquerque, Albuquerque Tribune, articles, ducks, networking, New Mexico, newspaper, Photos, Portfolio | Leave a comment
Article in The Albuquerque Tribune: Consultant helps you discover your gifts – and how to market them
In her search for souls, Laura Naughton starts with stories.
It’s there, inside her clients’ anecdotes and memories, that the Albuquerque consultant discovers the patterns, the snapshots of meaning to be translated with her guidance into an idea to transform lives.
She calls it a lifemark.
“Your lifemark is exactly what you were born for,” Naughton says. “In [...]
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