David Byrd's Blog

Switch - by the Heath brothers

Loved it. I enjoyed all the examples of different people in the book. Chip and Dan have great story telling abilities. I have already implemented some of the ideas in this book.

Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard

Rework - great book by the founders of 37signals

Short and sweet.  Easy to read.  There are some great ideas on running a business (as well as starting up). Definitely recommended.

Rework

Word, Pages and my iPhone

  VS

Today I made a Pages file on my mac, and sent it to my work email.  I then tried to open the Pages file on my PC using MS Word.  No dice.

Well, surely I can open the Mac Pages file on my iPhone and copy and paste the content into something else, right?  No dice again.

What am I missing here?

Books and Reading

I go in spurts with reading.  I'll get involved in some fiction, read a few, then move into non-fiction. 

Currently I'm making my way through Chesterton's Orthodoxy and Pascal's Pensees while reading a business book (Rework). 

It may not be prudent, but I don't care. 

Sometimes I need to read different things. 

Even though I may take a break of reading, or even read more on my kindle than a real book, I don't think the publishing industry is in trouble. 

Here's a great video produced by a publisher: The Future of Publishing

Good veggies

These are going with BBQ baked taters 'n chicken.

What I'm reading (or, my baby steps back into blogging):

Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard, by Dan and Chip Heath. Excellent reading. Half way through and the ideas and examples have reminded me of things I already knew (but forgot) and also taught me things that I hadn't known.

Great way to think about Social Media

David Meerman Scott (who has great books) makes an anology which is the best I've read regarding Social Media.

To quote,

"I like to think of Facebook, LinkedIn and other social networking sites as the cocktail parties of the city. To extend the tortured analogy even further, Twitter is sort of like when the girls go to the ladies room and talk about the guys while the guys are discussing the girls while they are away."

I especially like how he describes Twitter!

Nicely done David!

Whole Post Here

Free ebook by John Jantsch

I haven't read it yet, however I'm a big fan of anything John writes as he spells things out on how to accomplish things.

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More Reasons Virtual Meetings Are Gaining Popularity

Will virutal meetings every fully replace face-to-face meetings?  With virtual conferences ever replace live, in-person conferences?

I say no.

I say, and have always said, that virtual meetings (audio and web conferencing) are a supplement to in-person meetings.  It's like giving your relationship with a client steroids.

Rohit agrees, "One of the interesting questions asked during the day was whether virtual events may start to overtake real life events like this one due to financial pressures. My response was that I think they currently compliment each other and will continue to do so, yet it does raise the point of the current popularity of virtual events."

This comment was made while he was attending a conference in London - read the whole post here.

Rohit spells out 6 reasons why virtual events are gaining popularity.

I like the way this is going.

Communicating without Seeing Face-to-Face

Guy Kawasaki talks about the differences of email versus face-to-face communication. Interesting read. It makes me think of a hybrid - video conferencing. It's in between email and face-to-face. More than a phone call, less than actually being there. I wonder how this would fit into Guy's equation.