Digital Narratives, Social Media, Growing a Community, Maximizing Life.
Let’s face it. Layoffs are all to common right now. It’s a rough economy. However, I think it’s easier to get back to work than people realize. All it takes is a different perspective on your job search. This fall, my life has really forced me to examine how I focus my attention and intention. In [...]
Besides being able to control the jukebox and drink yerba mate all day, the thing that I love most about managing the community at Tech Ranch Austin is all the folks who come in the door. They all have stuff to teach me, even about our own business model. Lesson #1: always be prepared to [...]
Edit: My buddy, John U reminded me of Malcolm Gladwell’s Tipping Point and Gladwell’s discussion of Mavens and Connectors. After you read the blog, read the Wikipedia synopsis of Mavens and Connectors. In this, the Age of Twitter, I propose a new category of attention spans. Let’s call it the “Twitter Attention Span.” The Twitter [...]
The time came 2 weeks ago to take the BarnBuildr Program to the next level. Moving from one level to the next will involve a 3-step Process that I will go into here, and also at (Plug Alert) www.barnbuildr.com. Visit our website to see what we’re doing, and to enjoy Jonas Lamis‘s design work. The [...]
Everyone knows the accomplishments of Mohandas Gandhi and Nelson Mandela. Gandhi freed the Indian nation from British imperialism, and Nelson Mandela peaceably brought South Africa out of Apartheid and into a beautiful multi-cultural nation. Big Deal. These stories are known and celebrated throughout the world, and to be honest, they are stories that I have [...]
One of the more challenging things about graduating college in 2009 was finding a job in a down economy. Our economy’s outlook was so severe that even George Martin, St. Edward’s University President, spent most of his graduation address on some hard facts about the reality we faced once we walked the other side of [...]
The way that I am currently working to architect connections in Austin right now is through a program at the Tech Ranch called BarnBuildr. We are targeting the substantial amount of folks that are highly trained in the various Technology companies, like Dell and IBM, that helped make Austin a bit of a “satellite campus” [...]
When I use the catchphrase, Social Architect, I am referring to the process of building a social connection, a bridge, if you will, between formerly disparate individuals.