Top Eight Ways to Survive Conference Season

Conference season is upon us! It’s been a fun, relaxing summer, but welcome back to hell! With more conferences than ever before from which to choose (don’t these guys know we’re supposedly in a recession?) here are eight easy tips to help navigate the ones you do choose to attend.
1) Networking starts LONG before you [...]



How to avoid being “Checked In” by your friends on Facebook’s Places

Hey gang – A brief video tutorial on how to manage your privacy settings on Facebook so no one else has the power to “check you in” to places on Facebook. Hope it’s useful. Feel free to share.

How to avoid being “Checked in” by your friends on Facebook’s Places from Peter Shankman on Vimeo.



A thought as we go into the weekend…

A quote for this Friday:
“Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘Press On’ [...]



Looking at the World Through T3 Colored Glasses

In 1995 when I was helping to found the AOL Newsroom, I coined a phrase:
Stop looking at the world through T3 colored glasses.
A T3 line was one of the fastest pipes to transmit data at the time, and AOL being AOL, we sat right on top of about 100 of them. You could follow our [...]



Five Random Things You Should Be Doing More Of

To compliment yesterday’s post involving five things you shouldn’t do, here’s five things you’re not doing enough of, and you should be doing more.
5) Read different things. If the only places you get your news and information are the same places you’ve been going for the past year, it’s time to find some new spots. [...]