Wikipedia defines enlightened self interest as follows: Enlightened self-interest is a philosophy in ethics which states that persons who act to further the interests of others (or the interests of the group or groups to which they belong), ultimately serve their own self-interest.[1][2][3] Doing well by doing good sounds like win-win to me. I like [...]

Here’s an exercise for you – go to a blog you know and read every day. Comment on one of their posts. Then click on a link within their blogroll that you’ve never visited before (or visited rarely). Pick a post, and comment on it. Go to their blogroll, pick a blog that you’ve never [...]

That source of all things, Wikipedia, defines parody (or lampoon) as: … a work created to mock, comment on, or make fun at an original work, its subject, author, style, or some other target, by means of humorous, satiric or ironic imitation. As the literary theorist Linda Hutcheon (2000: 7) puts it, “parody … is [...]

Sometimes I am not sure that I think the same as most people – not better or worse, just different. It comes down to what I call meta-thinking – looking beyond the obvious for the reasons behind the thoughts. I was thinking through the weekend about communities of communities, and forums about forums – and [...]

The hard bit – the hard work – is in taking the responsibility to step beyond the comfortable. To dare to be truly remarkable. This sounds trite, but trust me, the last thing that a consulting client needs from a consultant is to never hear a question, or never be told when things aren’t going [...]

Wikipedia has a go at defining the Long Tail: The Long Tail or long tail refers to the statistical property that a larger share of population rests within the tail of a probability distribution than observed under a ‘normal’ or Gaussian distribution. The term has gained popularity in recent times as describing the retailing strategy [...]

We each wear a persona when we blog – this is the personality that we show to the outside world. This may be different to our day job/work personas – what is appropriate after hours may not be appropriate at work, and vice versa. The situation gets a little more complex when you have multiple [...]

…then you’re doing something wrong. That said, it doesn’t make it any easier. I received my very first troll comment over on XFBML blog this morning. I feel all grown up now I am not sure what got this guy’s attention, but he doesn’t like anything that I’ve written there, especially my article on blog [...]

We’re social animals. We often define our lives by the relationships we have with other people – children, partners, parents, friends, siblings, colleagues, clients. These relationships can (and do) form the basis of many a fine blog. Relationships can sometimes be positive, and sometimes not. Sometimes, clouds can creep into each of the many relationships [...]

I haven’t posted a lot lately. Work has been busy, and, well, there’s been some personal stuff going on. Over the last few months I’ve seen a lot of brave bloggers discuss some very personal things – mental issues, physical and emotional abuse they suffered as a child, the deaths of close relatives, car accidents, [...]