Make It With Michael

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Lisa Galarneau I feel more calm about our future than ever before. The Internet has saved our asses, and we should celebrate. I’ve been on the Web for a long time, but every once in a while I have one of those tremendous moments when I have a mental flashback to these last 20 or so years… It happened today… one of my favorite Adele songs, writ large in a YouTube fan culture spectacular. Someone had pruned the 71 best YouTube covers of the track from the 350,000 or so available. Woven into a mash-up of all the covers in perfect synchrony. A Snippet of Magic I think it must have been magic that produced it. I mean, even if I had the skill, would I spend that time on a small gift to the Internet? But that’s what we’ve been doing. Building a capability network of epic proportions. Leveraging the power of six degrees of separation. Uniting in common purpose and effort in ways that we had been rapidly losing. New Possibilities Created by Connections Here ...

By Lisa Galarneau I feel more calm about our future than ever before. The Internet has saved our asses, and we should celebrate. I’ve been on the Web for a long time, but every once in a while I have one of those tremendous moments when I have a mental flashback to these last 20 or so years… It happened today… one of my favorite Adele songs, writ large in a YouTube fan culture spectacular. Someone had pruned the 71 best YouTube covers of the track from the 350,000 or so available. Woven into a mash-up of all the covers in perfect synchrony. A Snippet of Magic I think it must have been magic that produced it. I mean, even if I had the skill, would I spend that time on a small gift to the Internet? But that’s what we’ve been doing. Building a capability network of epic proportions. Leveraging the power of six degrees of separation. Uniting in common purpose and effort in ways that we had been rapidly losing. New Possibilities Created by Connections Here are 10 ways I see us ...

By Kim Phillips Patience. It is a virtue I don’t have. So when I wanted to grow my audience quickly before my current book launch, I started researching growth hacks . I had a few requirements for what I was looking for: It couldn’t take a lot of time to execute. I run three companies, am a published author, have two kids and occasionally like to see my husband, so time is limited. This hack had to be quick. It had to be easy. I am not a techie and my tech team is busy working on client accounts, so this had to be simple. And yes, I could have hired someone, but I wanted to make sure I could personally do this hack so I could share it with our students as a strategy they could use when I found what worked. There had to be ROI. Audience growth is great, but you can’t use audience to pay for your next vacation or hire your next employee. The growth strategies had to be ROI positive. It had to work quickly. I started this project in June and our launch started just a few months...

http://ift.tt/2ydhiU0 By Kim Phillips Patience. It is a virtue I don’t have. So when I wanted to grow my audience quickly before my current book launch, I started researching growth hacks . I had a few requirements for what I was looking for: It couldn’t take a lot of time to execute. I run three companies, am a published author, have two kids and occasionally like to see my husband, so time is limited. This hack had to be quick. It had to be easy. I am not a techie and my tech team is busy working on client accounts, so this had to be simple. And yes, I could have hired someone, but I wanted to make sure I could personally do this hack so I could share it with our students as a strategy they could use when I found what worked. There had to be ROI. Audience growth is great, but you can’t use audience to pay for your next vacation or hire your next employee. The growth strategies had to be ROI positive. It had to work quickly. I started this project in June and our launch sta...