links for 2007-07-21
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Books are souvenirs. No one is going to read Potter online, even if it’s free. Holding and owning the book, remembering when and how you got it… that’s what you’re paying for. Books are great at holding memories. They’re lousy at keeping secrets.
links for 2007-07-20
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It would help if that person understood technology, at least well enough to know what it could do. They would need to be able to write. But they also have to be able to seduce stragglers into joining the group in the first place, so they have to be able t
Seth’s Blog: Letters, brochures and email
Seth’s Blog: Letters, brochures and email
Email (sent with permission) has a different function. Its job is to get a response. To move a conversation forward, to help you learn a little bit about the person you’re engaging with.
If your emails read like direct mail letters or look like brochures, you’re wasting time and effort.
“We have no patent on anything we do and anything we do can be copied by anyone else. But you can’t copy the heart and the soul and the conscience of the company.”
-Howard Schultz, Chairman of Starbucks
links for 2007-07-11
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Ninjas can be fantastic – as long as they’re on your team.
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Noted Internet thinker and author Clay Shirky delivered one of the opening “provocations” at Supernova 2007. Using a 1300-year-old Japanese shrine as a metaphor, Clay explained how the New Network changes the basic dynamics of business and collective
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This will walk you through one of Patched Software’s projects from start to finish
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