My friend Terrence Gargiulo and I were chatting last week about the role storytelling plays for leaders and we agreed that the leadership-storytelling triple-threat was the ability to elicit stories, tell stories and trigger stories. So on this theme I was tickled pink to receive this video from Victoria Ward. MORE >>

Catherine Lombardozzi recent post Coaching informal learning sparked something for me around online coaching opportunities. In prior posts she identifies the following elements as being needed for informal learning strategy to be effective in the workplace: Motivation for learning. There's a new level of responsibility on learners. MORE >>

I wrote the article below for Tech Marketing magazine. It is intended as a quick guide for marketers who are looking to engage with social media. It is now impossible to ignore the power and reach of social media. Yet the rules of engagement are very different to traditional marketing and PR. Participate and play. Discover relevant conversations. MORE >>

Written by Dawn Foster. Last week, I admitted that I am an information junkie , and I wanted to follow up this week with a few tips for feeding your information habit by mining Twitter for information. Twitter Search. Twitter’s built-in search engine is probably my favorite way to find information in Twitter. Twitter Stream Graphs. MORE >>

Thou Shalt Not Simply Trot Out thy Usual Shtick. Thou Shalt Dream a Great Dream, or Show Forth a Wondrous New Thing, Or Share Something Thou Hast Never Shared Before. Thou Shalt Reveal thy Curiosity and Thy Passion. Thou Shalt Tell a Story. Thou Shalt Not Flaunt thine Ego. Be Thou Vulnerable. Speak of thy Failure as well as thy Success. MORE >>