…is not a truck, as Ted Stevens would have you believe.

Last month I had some new ideas thrown at me from Tony Scelzo at Rainmakers. At the Rainmakers Main Event, Tony’s presentation had a strong center point on the subject of “making someone greater than you.”

To give some background, accountability is a common discussion among entrepreneurs. We have so many ideas on seemingly life-changing goals, business concepts and social agendas that it is often hard for us to focus on one. It’s both a blessing and a curse. The strength allows a constant source of creativity, but the character flaw rears its ugly head as a deficit of attention to executing fully on any one endeavor. Read more

Lately I’ve been having lots of conversations about why I’m involved at all in social media. In some cases it’s a conversation where I’m forced to defend the merits of social media.

Nearly one in every five of these conversations comes under the impression that everyone else uses uses the internet, e-mail, blogging, Twitter, Linked In, etc, exactly the way they do. Astounding. Read more