On Content, Do You Want Quality or Quantity?

By Tim Berry

Do you know the expression “from your lips to God’s ears?” It means “I hope God hears what you just said, because I want it to be true.” I say let’s tell Carol Tice “from your keyboard to God’s eyes” for her Why Content is No Longer King post last week on her Make a... Read More »

Tip: Mistakes Are More Fun Than Tips

By Tim Berry

Here’s a continuing trend: tips and what-not-to-do lists get better readership as lists of mistakes.  It’s not a new trend, it’s not a surprising one, but one worth remembering. What reminds me this morning is a collection of posts by Geoffrey James on BNET:  The 8 Stupidest Management Fads of All Time  The 5  Dumbest... Read More »

Jonathan Fields’ Great Title Idea

By Tim Berry

This is so cool. I’m really jealous. As he finishes up his next book, Jonathan Fields turns to the web and his so-called tribe for help with the book title. In Help Me Choose The Title Of My Next Book, he put a poll onto his blog and promoted in there and in Twitter, Facebook,... Read More »

Business Words Losing Meaning

By Tim Berry

Sometimes words and phrases lose their meaning. They get so diluted by overuse that they end up meaning nothing at all. And that’s important to track when we use them in business. I first noticed that phenomenon back in the early 1980s with the phrase “user friendly,” as in “user-friendly” software. That phrase was so... Read More »

The Beauty Of Data Visualization

By Tim Berry

I really like business charts. I think I always have. I’ve been in the business of communicating about numbers for a long time. And here is a master of it. David McCandless, a British journalist, also calls himself “a data detective,” and we see why in his Ted talk shown here, The Beauty Of Data... Read More »

Good News, Bad News, And True Story on Blogging and Editors

By Tim Berry

The good news and bad news about blogging is editing and editors. Good news: anybody can blog without going through an editor as a gatekeeper. Back in the old days we used to strive to “get published.” Now we just publish. Hooray, we’re free. Bad news: nobody is so good that good professional editing doesn’t... Read More »

3 Blog Titles and One Novel in a Single Sentence

By Tim Berry

This sentence was at the end of the lead paragraph: In this Q&A, he warns of the classic mistakes of manager-wannabe-leaders, the perils of too many bullets and not enough Zen, and why CEOs are like dogs. Isn’t that great writing? Doesn’t it make you want to read on? There are three blog titles in... Read More »

Journalism and Blogging: Both Sides Now

By Tim Berry

Jolie O’Dell is a journalist who blogs. She cares about journalism, I gather, because of the way she writes about it in posts like How to Tell a journalist from a Blogger and Not all bloggers are journalists and not all journalists are jerks on her own blog. Most of the time, though, she’s a... Read More »