Month: November 2012

  • 5 Key Symptoms of being judgmental | Psychology Today

    What are the signs of being judgmental?  Here are five: 1.      Making a lot of negative moral evaluations of others. 2.      Having a moral rating system that is skewed in your own favor. 3.      Jumping to negative moral conclusions about others; being inclined to believe the worst. 4.      Moving very quickly from judgments of the…

  • djchuang.com is where it’s at

    I love to connect with people and I do that at my blog and website -> djchuang.com So come on over, the water is warm, it’s okay to leave xanga once in a while 🙂

  • It is about experimenting in the open wild

    Tim Brown from IDEO argues that exposing your ideas to the real world early on is critical to their eventual success: “Rapid prototyping and ‘learning by making’ is already an accepted strategy for effective innovation. For participatory systems, this is even more important because the complexity of the interactions cannot possibly be anticipated by even…

  • Make fundraising appeals project-specific and clear

    Millennials are not the only ones excited by the appeal “We need your help to raise $87,500 to send 50 underserved kids to summer camp.” If you want your millennial supporters to give as generously as possible, don’t ask them to consider a gift to the annual fund. Instead, ask them to support specific projects…

  • 10 Tips from Chris Brogan to Get More Twitter Followers Today

    GET MORE TWITTER FOLLOWERS TODAY Find great stories from other people and share them with a link and/or attribution. Do this 3 times or more a day! Share useful information that others can use, too! example: “I’ve discovered that Blip.fm is very useful for sharing my musical interests.” Bonus points if you provide the URL.…

  • Becoming more productive and get rid of email

    In early 2011, the CEO of a French IT company issued an usual memorandum. He banned email. Employees were discouraged from sending or receiving internal messages, with the goal of eradicating email within 18 months. Critics scoffed. Workers rebelled. But Thierry Breton, the CEO of Atos, has stuck to his guns, reducing message volume by…

  • Why too many startups fail by going stealth

    Too many startups begin with an idea for a product that they think people want. They then spend months, sometimes years, perfecting that product without ever showing the product, even in a very rudimentary form, to the prospective customer. When they fail to reach broad uptake from customers, it is often because they never spoke…

  • the hunt for green smoothie

    I haven’t watched that movie, the Hunt for Red October, but I have been on the hunt for a green smoothie. Partly inspired by that movie about juicing, Fat Sick and Nearly Dead. Even if I didn’t go on a reboot juicing fast for 10 days or 2 weeks, drinking a green smoothie instead of a…