SMUG Textbooks
Despite the decidedly social media nature of SMUG (“social media” is part of our name, after all), I’m still a big believer in books. They enable authors to make an extended argument and deal with a...
View ArticleAccelerating Innovation
On the day we announced our crowdsourcing plan for the advisory board for our Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media, Seth Godin ironically had a post called “Beyond Crowdsourcing.” It was a riff on the...
View ArticleGuest Lecturer: Seth Godin
Last week I shared a video from David Allen on Getting Things Done, or GTD. Here’s some more Saturday viewing from another author who has taught me a lot: Seth Godin. He even has his own section among...
View ArticleBeyond Hyphenation
As enrollment in rural schools declines, smaller communities have been left with no viable alternative but to consolidate their schools with neighboring towns. Typically this leads to a lot of...
View ArticleAnonymity is the Enemy of Community
In a conversation last week, I found the phrase that is the title of this post tumbling out of my mouth, and so I thought I must have heard it somewhere. Couldn’t have been original. So of course I did...
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