Mitch Joel's Blog: Six Pixels of Separation, page 434

Pushing Past The Marketing Noise

When was the last time you walked down the strip in Las Vegas? Can you remember which ads you saw? Which billboards stood out in your mind? Does one hotel stand out or do they all sort of stand out when you think about one of them?

I spent the weekend here in Vegas (business, not pleasure). During my only short break, I walked along the Vegas strip. Without question, I saw more ads in that short little while than I have seen all week. Las Vegas is advertising overload. The ads are bigger, brigh

Google Offers Up New Ways To Search (And Why You Should Care)

When a company reaches the size and depth of Google , it can sometimes be overwhelming to stay in the loop with the many changes, updates and new initiatives that are taking place.

Whether it's Google Wave or the recently announced adjustments to their core search engine algorithm called, Caffeine, not a day goes by that something interesting isn't being introduced or nurtured out of Mountain View, California (to get a flavour for this, be sure to check out Google Labs). Just the other day, whil

The Best Piece Of Business Advice

In the past few weeks, there have been countless discussions around being an Entrepreneur. It may have to do with the recession or it may have to do with the new realities of the new economy - more and more Digital Nomads working remotely or foregoing the infrastructure of a formal company and going at it solo.

One glance over the standard Twitter feed and you'll find that there is a growing group of individuals who are either thinking about striking out on their own or are in the midst of bein

Failure Is Not An 0ption

Just last week, I caught myself watching Apollo 13 for the umpteenth time on TV. The Oscar Award-winning Ron Howard epic was released in 1995 and dramatizes the lunar mission that took place in 1970.

Things went terribly wrong on that space voyage. A cryogenic tank exploded in the service module which caused a power failure and loss of oxygen in the command module. The entire purpose of the mission then shifted from landing on the moon to suddenly having to solve a problem no one imagined would

5 Free Books Are Yours For The Taking

In conjunction with the launch of my book, Six Pixels of Separation (which will be in stores the first week of September 2009) , my Publisher ( Grand Central Publishing - Hachette Book Group ) set-up a five-book bundle giveaway, and they were kind enough to let this community take part as well.

Here are the books:

NurtureShock by Po Bronson & Ashley Merryman.
Close Encounters of the Third-Grade Kind by Phillip Done.
In CHEAP We Trust by Lauren Weber.
The Love Revolution by Joyce Meyer.

One Easy And Simple Way To Create Content

Are you at a loss for how to create content? Has your Blog not been updated in a while? Do you sit and stare at Twitter and wonder silently, "what am I really doing?"

If you're looking for one thing or one "trick" to figure out how to beat your digital version of "writer's block", have you tried to publish your own take on something? It's pretty simple. Over the course of the day, look at the information you are saving and/or sharing. If you're using some of the same tools that I am (Google Rea

One Easy And Simple Way To Create Content

Are you at a loss for how to create content? Has your Blog not been updated in a while? Do you sit and stare at Twitter and wonder silently, "what am I really doing?"

If you're looking for one thing or one "trick" to figure out how to beat your digital version of "writer's block", have you tried to publish your own take on something? It's pretty simple. Over the course of the day, look at the information you are saving and/or sharing. If you're using some of the same tools that I am (Google Rea

Get Your Whuffie On With Tara Hunt

Episode #166 of Six Pixels of Separation - The Twist Image Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to.

Tara Hunt is one of those very unique individuals who does not follow business by the rules we have all come to know and believe in. She believes business needs a lot more laughter and happiness in it. She considers herself semi-retired and spends the bulk of her days trying to help businesses understand the power of social capital and how new economies can be everywhere. She is the au

Thoughts On Creating A Great Company

If you had to distil everything you knew about business into one book, what would it look like? 

If you're Alan Webber, it becomes an even more interesting task. As someone who was part of the Harvard Business Review and helped to create and shape Fast Company Magazine, Webber did more than grow multiple successful companies, he was also privy to reporting about how some of the most ground-breaking companies of our time did it as well. Beyond hobnobbing with many leaders of industry, Webber was

6 Ways To Share More Content

When it comes to the Internet, everyone is interested in conversation, comments, friends, followers, tweets and more. But, one of the best ways to better understand why the Internet has become a very Social Media is to start sharing even more.

Yes, you may be sharing information in places like Facebook and Twitter. You may be sharing your photos on Flickr. You may even be sharing access to your professional network on LinkedIn, but it's not enough and that is only the first step. What makes sha