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Organized over the Social Web
Last week I started the journey with many other Vayniacs to bring Gary Vaynerchuk to their town as part of his book signing tour. For those of you just coming up to speed on Wine Library TV, Gary opened the tour to the community to make what probably is the biggest decisions of the tour, [...]
Who is Gary Vaynerchuk?
From my previous post you know I am working with others in the Des Moines area to bring Gary Vaynerchuk to Iowa as part of his book signing tour but to make this a truly epic event we are going to have to introduce others, including close friends and family, to the Thunder Show for [...]
Personal Mission Statement - Follow up
The Outstanding Club’s writing contest has ended and the entries have been posted to their site. As follow up to the contest those who have entered including myself have been asked to vote for their favorite two.
After reading the posts, my two votes go to:
Jake Dahn’s Personal Mission Statement published at jakedahn.com by Jake Dahn
Rob Jensen’s [...]
Iowa, help us bring Gary V to Des Moines
*Last update on this post - We have a tentative date and it looks like we are in the home stretch. Mark June 21st at 5:30pm on your calendars and sign up at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/594746/ so we, including Gary, have an idea of how many are going to show up!*
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Gary Vaynerchuk of Wine Library TV recently completed [...]
Personal mission statement
I have been reading some of the follow up posts on the Outstanding Club and have decided it was time to take a crack at my own personal mission statement. I am hoping by doing so it will help reshape my own blog and get me back on track with my career development.
I started creating [...]
Tumblelog app for Facebook
Tumblr for a long time has been my microblogging service of choice, and recently I have discovered a great little facebook application to further promote ElephantsCrossing.com. Appropriately named, Tumblelog, the application is easy to setup and cleanly sits in your facebook profile.
The screen grab demonstrates the customization options and it is great to see [...]
The skinny on Lean
This week I am Lean training and after completing just the first day of this bootcamp it has been an eye opening experience. Whether it is work or personal life, process is everywhere and the Lean methodology is a way of looking at the process and making it as efficient as possible. What I enjoy [...]
Outstandingclub - A Group Writing Contest
In previous posts I have asked and discussed what you should be blogging about and overall entrepreneurship. Overwhelming feedback has come back time and time again that if you go down either route it needs to be about something you are passionate about. This means before you can even begin you need to be able [...]
Chris Pirillo speaks about technology in Iowa
Last weekend Chris Pirillo was back in Des Moines, IA visiting family. A couple days before his flight from Seattle he organized a meet up over twitter. The dmtweetup crew was quick to respond to the call and the meetup was held on Sunday at East Village Books.
I, unfortunately, had to miss this outing, or [...]
Trying on ecto
Tonight ended up being a short night for computer productivity however I did have the opportunity to play around with some new software. … Ecto, much like MarsEdit supports a number of blogging platforms and after installing can be used in minutes to started drafting your post.
