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Making book covers to protect books
Back in school we were required to make book covers for our schoolbooks. While there are a number of ways to accomplish this, the way we did it is with a paper grocery bag, as shown in the video below:
Podcasting for Five Years
Image by eyeliam via Flickr Five years ago today in the wee hours of the morning, August 22, 2005, I released the very first episode of the Journey Inside My Mind podcast. I still vividly recall the hours that led up to it: downloading and learning Audacity, recording it and editing it and posting it [...]
Make the tools fun again
In January 2002 I started my first blog. I’d read about Blogger for a few years and thought it was time to look deeper and see what I could do with it. I’ve been an introspective person for much of my life, so when it came time to come up with the title, I called [...]
Personal Branding vs Online Anonymity
Mitch Joel has an intriguing post entitled “The Next Big Thing Online Could Well Be Anonymity“. One of many things that stood out for me is this statement: With all of this personal information that we’re publishing online, people still have a need/want to speak anonymously. The post made me think about the drive toward [...]
Pain, memory, and great service
No one ever gets admitted to the hospital because everything is going alright with them. Similarly, most people don’t call technical support when the computer system is behaving superbly. Behavioral economists Daniel Kahneman and Dan Ariely have some interesting insights into how we can provide better service.
Teach me to fish
Image via Wikipedia A common proverb goes something like this: Catch a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime. The point of this is that I can only go so far if you catch a fish for me every day. [...]
3 Tips for a Great Start to the New Month
Welcome to the first of a new month! Here are some tasks I do at the beginning of every month to help get it off to a good start. Feel free to adapt these as your own, as well as share your own in the comments. 3 Tips for a Great Start to the New [...]
Taste of Cincinnati 2010
Taste of Cincinnati is an annual tradition every Memorial Day weekend. The city of Cincinnati closes off several blocks downtown, and food vendors set up and offer a Taste of what they typically serve at their restaurants in the Greater Cincinnati area. It’s a chance for folks like me to “graze”. I remember the first [...]
Building better relationships for fun and profit
Tonight I had the wonderful privilege to speak at the Immaculate Heart of Mary (IHM) Job Search Ministry in Anderson Township, here in Cincinnati. They had approached me a few months ago and asked if I would come in and talk about effective networking.
Some books are worth buying
Some books are just worth buying. It takes a lot for me to fork over some money to buy a book that I could just as easily check out from the library. I do that a lot, with books, movies, CDs. I’ll try them out by checking them out from the library for awhile.
