Doctorow: Productivity Terrorist? Some time ago I came across this comment from BoingBoing blogger Cory Doctorow that inspires both shock and awe: “As a co-parenting new father who writes at least a book per year, half-a-dozen columns a month, ten or more blog posts a day, plus assorted novellas and stories and speeches, I know just how short time can be and how dangerous distraction is.” Doctorow’s intent, I think, is to inspire, but his example is just as likely to depress. To the traditional print journalist, their new ethos of digital productivity is not just foreign, it’s al-Qaeda foreign. MORE >>

Image via Wikipedia. My daughter has reached the end of her college selection process. She's our first student headed off to college, so it was a learning process for all of us. She did a great job and she was accepted to her "college of choice" and she is relieved and happy. But I can't leave well enough alone. As a self-appointed social media expert, I spent a lot of the time watching how she navigated the Web and what made her decision to attend the school that she did. As I did so, I kept wondering whether colleges are waking up to social media. MORE >>

Drew Hawkins has become one of the most consistent contributors in the {grow} community. He recently commented that he could relate to the research on the explosive growth of social media in small businesses because he was witnessing it first hand. invited him to share his inspiring success story … When I started at Hinda Incentives in 2009, we had very little digital marketing efforts outside of a website and a Google AdWords account. Within that time frame, we were listed on the Inc. Our social media growth has paralleled the rapid financial growth of our company. Setting Our Own Table. MORE >>

On Thursday January 27th, while attending the #B2BChat on Twitter, I was honored and amazed to learn that I won the B2B Twitterer Of The Year award in the “Boss Tweet&# category. While I am truly humbled by the experience, I thought I should take my moment in the spotlight to describe how I think I got here: my “Twitter tips and tricks&# if you will. Now there’s some irony here. Because Twitter is a social platform and no one is anything without the connections we form and the strength of those relationships. So I really owe this award to all my Twitter friends. What else? MORE >>

We’ve been talking about this for weeks, so we will close here. The final standings are: 4. Laugh and Learn with the Fearless Competitor (3%) 3. Juan Eloqua by Eloqua (6%) 2. You Don’t Know Jack (about online marketing) by … Continue reading → Demand Generation lead generation Leadership Management best practices Marketing marketing funnel Remarkable content Sales 2.0 Sales knowledge sales leadership MORE >>