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2009: A Look Back and Forward
It’s been an interesting year, to say the least. All things considered, I have to consider 2009 a rousing success—or at least as successful as a year can be with the following constraints: A really bad...
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Publishing Mysteries
There are many things that just don’t make sense to me that should. I’m not talking about MacGuyver trivia, how to tap dance, or 18th century French philosophy. I expect to be clueless about those...
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200: The State of My Site
I suppose that this is some sort of an accomplishment. The post that you are reading is my 200th. It’s time to do my first “State of My Site” post. Because of the occasion, I’m allowing myself this...
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Kickstarter Redux
Well, it worked once. In mid-2010, I started a little Kickstarter project to raise funds for The New Small. Now, with three business books under my belt, it’s time to do something with absolutely no...
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Vote on the Cover of Message Not Received
I’m about 37,000 words into the manuscript for Message Not Received. The research is going very well. I’ve already nailed down a few case studies, but there’s room for one or two more. One of my...
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Donald Trump and the Beauty of Big Data
I’ve written before that increased transparency and data journalism will help us better understand world events. It turns out that the vast quantities of readily available information also make it...
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On Visualizing Data and Laziness
It’s been a while since I’ve blogged about data visualization. My focus for the past year or so has been business communication and Message Not Received. Today, though, my AT&T bill got my dataviz...
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Twitter’s New Commercial: Message Not Received
Introduction Twitter has done many things poorly throughout its chaotic history, not the least of which is communications. While early adopters and power users such as myself understand Twitter, the...
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Slack Tip #1: Dealing With Workspace Trolls
Normally, people behave in a professional manner while using Slack and other collaboration tool. The operative word in the last sentence is normally. Sometimes individual behave like jackasses....
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Slack Tip #2: How Many Channels Do We Need?
What’s the right answer to this question? Or is there one? Should you tread lightly when adopting Slack? What happens if you go too fast? And what does all of this have to do with Breaking Bad? Watch...
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Slack Tip #3: Removing Apps
You installed an app but you don’t use it. Maybe you don’t like its performance or are concerned about its privacy settings. Does one app largely do what another one does à la SimplePoll and Polly? Or...
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Slack Tip #4: Making a Public Channel Private
Other than single-channel guests, all Slack members can join public channels. Great, but what if you want to restrict channels to certain members? Tough noogies. I’m kidding. As I show in the video...
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