Do you like my headline here, on this post? Can you write a better one?
Headlines are critical. I’ve noted that, with some frustration (I’m not so good at headlines) on this blog before, here.
Headlines come up today because being in New York last week to judge the Forbes.com business plan contest gave me a chance [...]
It was sometime in the 1970s when I first ran across the Procter and Gamble one-page memo policy. I was a journalist then, interviewing an executive from P&G. It seemed to make so much sense. The people who worked there, I was told, loved it.
What can’t you say in a full page?
Think about emails, which [...]
True confession: I love writing. I love short sentences, strong words, making myself understood.
I think most, if not all, good bloggers like writing. Video people do vlogs and YouTube, poets go to Twitter (say, what?), but bloggers are writers. Almost all of my favorite blogs — I’ve got the blogroll on this blog, rightmost column, [...]
Benjamin Floyd of Read Click Done asked me after yesterday’s post: “how do you do it?” Two books, 1400 or so posts, 1300 or so tweets in the last two years. “Where do you find the time.”
Fair question. Reminds me of Bob Sutton’s Really, I Write it Myself. So do I. Bob thanks his editors, [...]
Two years ago this month I started blogging. Just a couple weeks after naming Sabrina Parsons CEO of Palo Alto Software. I remained president, but switched my job to blogging, writing, speaking, and teaching. I guess I should have changed my title to CBO, for chief blogging officer.
I didn’t understand at first …
“I’m a business [...]
God is no longer in Yahoo! Messenger, but she is in Twitter. Not on LinkedIn, but several incarnations in Facebook. True story: Several years ago I found God on Yahoo! Messenger. That was the year that Yahoo! Messenger first started….
A blog post calls another very well known and well liked blogger an idiot. That’s the title: “So-and-so is an Idiot.” A mutual friend tipped me off in an email. I know the alleged idiot in that post, I do…
Anita Campbell is giving away copies of my Plan-As-You-Go Business Plan book over at her Small Business Trends blog. She posted this offer last Friday for her birthday (nice touch) and offered five books to be given at random from…
I hope you’ll forgive me this post, but it took a long time writing, absorbed most of my Spring, and involved a lot of work by other people with editing, design, and so so forth. These things go up and…
I was delighted to see this in my Alltop view yesterday morning. I’ve been a fan of Steven Wright for years, and in this post, Brian Clark does a very nice integration of some of Steven’s one-liners with thoughts about…