Immediacy vs Deferred Gratification

I’ve been thinking about this for a while- Why is it so easy to make grand plans about what I should do, yet so hard to execute some times?
I think it comes down to immediacy vs. deferred gratification – what’s happening now versus looking into the future towards your goal, and stopping behavior that will [...]

Why Fine Line Distinctions Are Important

Listening to NPR today, covering the Attorney General resignation, one of the 9 fired Asst US Attorneys mentioned how the Attorney General would remind everyone at conferences that they worked for the President.  This fired Assistant US Attorney said that was wrong;  they worked for the People, for Us, not just the President.
This points out [...]

Changing Media Formats

I am in the middle of planning for PodCamp Philly, Sept. 7, 8, and 9.  One of the interesting presentations that’s in the works is by Quincy MacDonald, of McGraw Hill, talking about how Traditional Media (publishing) and New Media can work together.  Want to know what to do to find a publisher and write [...]

UnConferences

I am the lead organizer of PodCamp Philly, a New Media UnConference being held at Drexel University September 7, 8, & 9, 2007. I got the UnConference bug after attending PodCamp Boston in September of last year, and my world was largely transformed by the people I met and the things I learned there.
A [...]

Thoughts on Cult of the Amateur

I’ve been reading Cult of the Amateur by Andrew Keen.  This is basically a rant book, saying that the democratizing of media production is eviscerating our culture.  I disagree, and would say podcasting, videoblogging and blogging are actually arising because of the poor job main stream media has done in protecting our cultural values and [...]

If Content Rules, then….

I’ve been trying to catch up on some reading, and Thomas Friedman’s added content to The World is Flat 3.0 is one of them.  There’s a great section about using social media tools for educational projects that reflects what is my every day reality of collaborating with people I know across the Country and across [...]

How New Media Has Changed My Impression of Customer Service

Being an “Internet Girl”, as I tend to refer to myself these days, has totally changed my expectations in real life. I expect stores and products to impress me. I expect them to work a little harder for my business, because it’s just as easy to cut them out of [...]

Room to Make Mistakes and Change Your Mind

I’ve always been disturbed about political scorekeeping.  John Kerry famously got called a flip flopper for changing his mind about issues.  Isn’t revising your opinion and stance in the presence of new and additional information actually a good thing?  Isn’t this what we call – dare I say it- Thinking?  Particularly if you subscribe to [...]