Who inspires you to be a better person? Makes you want to read more, learn more, and put actionable ideas and plans into place? Who makes everything fall into place, and because of that increases your knowledge and awareness? I’m incredibly fortunate that I’m part of a great community, both here at my blog and on the likes of Twitter and LinkedIn. Some great minds wander these social hallways and impart some immense wisdom every single day. Today, I want…

Phone > Email > Text > SMS > Blogging > Facebook > Video > Twitter: that’s a quick & dirty look at the basic evolution of our communication channels over the past few years. We’ve grown faster, smarter, technologically savvy, and more efficient with the tools and services we use to communicate with one another in this digital era. This sort of hyper-connectivity leaves seemingly little time-waste when it comes to responding to one our colleague’s tweets or a friend’s…

A little while back, I sent out a request via Twitter asking if anyone would be interested in being interviewed for a discussion on social media. With the medium meaning so many different things to so many people, as well as how it can be used, I was interested to hear the views of the people I connect with. My original plan was to run a “round table” style of blog post – raise the questions and then have a…