Jody knows i can talk about any Disney business practice, in great detail.
Podcast coming up.
Will be a guest on Jody Maberry’s new podcast.
Jody hosts Lee Cockerell’s popular “Creating Magic” podcast.
Jody and i have grown to become friends and yesterday we had a two-hour Skype conversation and microphone test.
Stay tuned.
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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.
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It’s not the Magic that makes it work, it’s the work that makes it Magic.
Following is a blog comment i wrote yesterday in response to a blog comment from Brian:
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Brian, first, i appreciate you taking time to (read and) comment. There is a lot of hype about “the benefits of this platform or that social media platform”. i’ve heard it all. There’s a ton of theory and best practices.
When you own your own business, you are in a different game than when you worked for someone else. You have to create your own brand, take your own risks, spend your own time and money. If you’ve never done it, it’s an incredible eye-opening experience. You make a lot of mistakes. You carry a lot of fear of trying new (different, counter-culture) things because everything you do has a consequence. And your ideas might not work.
Theory goes out the window.
All you have is what you try and what you learn from trying.
i shy away from the industry standard practices.
Why?
We have the choice to pick one of two: Become the best in an existing category, or to become the category.
All of my keynote speaking business comes from recommendations and referrals.
Would you pay a per-usage fee, a monthly fee, or an annual fee to listen to the podcasts you’ve described?
Thank you Brian for the thought-provoking dialogue. i hope i have returned the favor.
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Does anyone care about last week’s closing keynote speech to 600 International Guests – and the standing ovation? No.
Does anyone care that i had an all-expenses-paid trip to Montreal and got to run through the city before flying home? No.
Facebook work, also known as our job or our career.
Is Facebook a hack (a “short-cut cheat” for avoiding the hard work, and risk, of creating our own platform – owning and managing a domain name – on our very own piece of digital real estate?
Do we really want to rely on our Facebook friends to become better informed about our world? (Because some of our friends have the time to act as curators, and they post what they think their “audience” will appreciate and enjoy)
Do we really want to push our world view on our friends without ever having their permission (because we never ask, “Would you like to hear what i think about ______?)?
Do we have any idea why we use Facebook, or have we just been swept up in the socially popular current and never creating our own personal vision of how and why we use Facebook (versus our own domain/website)?
And what about all our friends who we are not (for whatever reason) connected with? Does that mean we aren’t friends, or does it mean that we are not good friends?
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