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Building a Southwest Airlines Jet
Interesting behind the scenes time-lapse video on the making of Florida One, a new Southwest Jet at Boeing. Very cool to see the way their production line works and how the evolving airplane rolls through the facility. I don’t think I have ever seen a plane being made, but every time I go on one, [...]
Age of Conversation 3 Coming Soon!
Age of Conversation 3: It’s time to get busy! is on its way. It will be available shortly directly from Amazon and some other online book stores. The cover was designed by Chris Wilson.
The third in a series of a crowdsourced book on conversation, I am happy to have written one chapter for this [...]
How Long is Too Long?
I have been helping a doctor setup a web presence that includes a website a blog and some social media applications. With new clients, especially those that don’t read blogs let alone blog themselves, I help them understand and train them on how to blog. In one of our first sessions we discussed frequency, recency [...]
Maya’s first plane trip
We have not been shy to travel with our kids. Starting with Ethan when he was 3 months old, we have traveled with our kids and happily they have been excellently behaved and we have not upset too many people.
We have been out of practice when it comes to traveling with an infant [...]
As a parent – Watch this video
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This will shock and inspire you
Last year there was Paul Potts and two of his audition videos have been watched by over 42 million and 11 million people respectively on YouTube. Then this year (a few days ago in fact), Susan Boyle arrives. I challenge you not to jump to conclusions when she first appears.
Susan Boyle on Britain Got Talent
by [...]
Blast from 1998 – Dot Com revisited
Sometimes you just know
A long long time ago
I can still remember how that music used to make me smile
Don McLean
Back in summer camp as a newly minted teenager, I met a guy who could play the guitar and sing. He was cool – and he could really play. Turns out we were distantly related and we would end [...]
Twitter explained to a 90 year old grandparent
Many years ago I used to train retirees at companies on how to look after their retirement plans. The lights went on for them (and me) when I started following this simple philosophy: Pretend you are explaining the concept to your 90 year old grandparent or your 6 year old child.
If I took my time [...]
What I Learned This Week From You – Installment #1
When I started focusing on marketing and communications and the massive changes that were occuring a few years ago, I went from not knowing what a blog was to reading 200 blogs a day in about 6 weeks. Soon it was 300 a day and I was learning a ton and running out of hours [...]
