DCO Weekend Reader – 12/12/08
The web is a vast repository of opinions, commentary and occasionally, wisdom. Here’s a selection of the best articles I read over the past week.
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Only 12 shopping days left!
As the year winds down and the holidays gear up, time gets more and more precious. Between the year-end crunch at work, shopping for friends and family and holiday parties there seems to be little time for ourselves and those important to us. So this week, I’m keeping the Weekend Reader fairly light and sticking to basic, quick reads. Don’t get me wrong, there are still a lot of good ideas in this week’s Reader. However, I’d rather you spend the majority of your spare time this weekend curled up on the coach with your significant other sipping a glass of wine (or hot cocoa) than reading leadership tips.
My personal must-read for this week is the “eight things you should add to your weekly task list”, under personal excellence. I do intend to actually add them to my electronic task list (my lifesaver) as recurring tasks, so I can give them some thought every week. I would also encourage everyone to read the “don’t waste a crisis” article under thought-provokers.
That’s it for this week. Thanks for stopping by.
Personal Excellence & Leadership
- This simple post is from a professional blogger, but the admonition is applicable to all of us: make progress everyday.
- Simon Stapleton comes through again with 8 things you should add to your weekly task list. Yes, do all eight of these weekly. Actually, Simon suggests you can do all these weekly. Personally, I’m adding all eight as recurring weekly tasks on my to do list.
Entrepreneurship
- What do you get when you mash together a E-Mail, an enterprise instant message system and a VoIP gateway, then offer it free through ad revenue? Well, you get Unison. I’m not endorsing Unison, nor recommending you try it. In fact it just recently entered beta. Filed under entrepreneurship, this is a product I’ll probably keep my eye on to see how they do, and it could be a perfect solution for small business if you can live with the ads.
- I had the pleasure of participating in an online radio interview focusing on manufacturing entrepreneurship.
Thought-Provokers
Tips, Tricks & Resources
- Another simple tip: using loyalty programs to keep customers loyal in a downturn.
- How to not jump at the first, or any, job offer.
- As I wrote recently, there are some real disconnects out there with respect to how to use social networking channels in a business context. One of the buzzwords in this space is “viral marketing”. Here’s a smart article with some basic thoughts on why you should consider viral marketing and how to get a campaign started.
- Making sure your body language is sending the right message, espcially in an interview.
One For Fun
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Hey Dave let me know how those ‘eight weekly tasks’ work out for you!
Nice post!
Simon