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Category: Ideas

  • Who Owns Your Soul?

    According to this article, a particular game store in the UK might own it.  You can read the article and you will notice that they put an “immortal soul” clause.  They added it to the terms and conditions of an online sale.  Well, let me tell you what the article…

  • Not That Easy

    I saw a tweet today that ask the question if your business was interesting enough for your friends to talk about it.  It went on to talk about the benefits of having friends talk about your business.  Then the article gave 4 things that one can do to make their…

  • You Want to Change the World

    ….then learn how to change yourself. Actually, learn how to change something – anything. But why not start with yourself. If you can’t change yourself – the one thing that you have control over – how in the world are you going to change something – anything. Here’s the lesson:…

  • Marketing to Insecurities

    Have you noticed that many of the marketing messages have to do with pointing out your insecurities?  Think about it.  If you have colored teeth, stinky armpits, marks on your face, bad breath, or you’re just not cool – all you have to do is buy whitening toothpaste, deodorant, proactiv,…

  • Stigmatized Failure

    What do you think about failure?  What do you think about this idea that there is value in failure? We have stigmatized failure.  We don’t like it.  We’ve been conditioned to hate it.  We’ve been “educated” against it.  We’re such functional dualists that we can’t think about failure coexisting with…

  • Networking and Connecting

    Years ago in college, I had to do this internship as an academic requirement in order for graduation. One of the important lessons from that experience was this idea of building bridges. My degree was in education, and the concept of bridging the gap or building bridges was the dominant…

  • Limits of the Bus

    I was listening to Mitch Joel’s Six Pixel’s of Separation podcast – where he interviews Nilofer Merchant and her new book, the New How. They talked about Jim Collin’s idea of the “getting the right people on the bus.” Nilofer talked about how people get on the bus, but then…

  • Passive Evangelism

    Passive Evangelism – Check out the marketing implications with the prices all over the track; Be careful about the unfortunate juxtaposition of what you think is valuable.

  • Researcher Identity

    I printed of a majority of my dissertation research today.  I printed 2 copies.  It’s only 161 pages.  That’s alot of writing.  I can’t tell you how many words that I used that Microsoft Word did not know.  I think it’s mostly because they’re made up words – made up…

  • The Foundation of Brand Identity

    When you do a search for identity – most of the time your search results will yield technologist or identity theft analysts.  Identity and online identity has to do with access or activation (of websites and profiles). You might also find hits about brand identity and developing your own personal…

  • Isn’t Dependent on Music or Vocals

    My facebook status this morning was: im glad that worship isnt dependent on music or vocals. My good friend Bub Kuns posted this beautiful response to it. Perhaps if we corrected our misleading language it would go a long way to repairing God’s definition and instructions of and for worship.…

  • Online Identity Formation

    The following is a paragraph (with a few changes) from my research.  The focus is adolescent identity formation in online spaces.  I just wanted to share it – it’s totally out of context, but it’s what I’m learning. Adolescents interact in online space and this interaction moves them along in…