Archive for August 30, 2010

my article on technicultr

last week i was asked to respond to this question on technicultr: should social networking sites ask for ethnic information?  interesting question so i tried to develop a thoughtful answer.  you can judge for yourself, check it out why i said it’s got huge upside, but risky for any current sites to travel down this path: “collecting ethnic information on social media…

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are you dead?

dead [ded] -adjective no longer functioning, operating, or productive not moving or circulating; stagnant; stale some people think death only comes once in a lifetime.  they’re wrong.  death doesn’t only come when you die; it happens the second we come to a place of stagnation in our lives. never stop moving.

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my response to how black people use twitter

last week a huge stir was created around a question posed by a journalist at slate magazine?  the title, how black people use twitter, was enough alone to create a frenzy.  earlier this week i posted a response to the article that was posted on the globalhue web site.  you can check it out here.  but here’s a snippet to get you started: “Blacks are…

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how to design a movement

derek shivers teaches us, in under 5 minutes, how to start a movement: “remember the importance of nurturing your first few followers as equals so it’s clearly about the movement, not you…the biggest lesson, if you noticed — did you catch it — is that leadership is over-glorified…it was really the first follower that transformed the lone nut into a…

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the world’s largest list on why we forget to design

last week i wrote a post suggesting that we are all designers and advising that we should not forget to see ourselves as designers and to take a design approach to everything in our life. and while we will design a plethora of things during the years we have on this earth, i offer up the idea that the most…

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the sound of someone who is designing their life

a good friend of mine shared this video with me the other day, and i believe it is a beautiful and excellent example of someone taking the initiative and determining within themselves that they would design their own life. i hope that, like me, you find this video encouraging, inspiring, and relevant to where you are right now in your…

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