It’s still the beginning of 2013, and I’m setting the tone for what’s to come before I dive in head first. I have many ideas dancing in my head, and I’m trying to figure things out. Steve Jobs understood the interrelationship of disciplines – art and technology- and achieved great success with that. In my case, I have been wondering, which disciplines should converge to form something great. First I was thinking it would be technology and literature with the upcoming Virtual Literary Tour Around the World, but when I really thought about it, it was the interrelationship of technology, literature as well as geography. This is an … [Read more...]
3 Must Know About Resources
June 27, 2012 by
I often come across many resources that I find useful, here are three that I’d like to share with you. Free Technology for Teachers: I love this blog because Richard Byrne offers really cool and useful information. Take the time to browse through the posts. For instance, Become a Google Power Searcher made me aware of an online course that Google is offering for free. After reading Snaggy is a Handy Screen Capture Tool, I used Snaggy and really liked it. I wanted to learn how to create my own infographics and 3 Free Tools for Creating Infographics gave me what I needed. Brain Pickings Weekly: Each Sunday I receive this newsletter … [Read more...]
Mentor Yourself With Media Executive Mark Prasuhn Part II
June 15, 2012 by
Self-Mentoring Strategy To get the most from The Invisible Mentor Interview, while you are reading the interview with Mark Prasuhn, reflectively answer the following questions: What does the interviewee know that you don’t? After reading the interview, what is one concrete action you can take? What are your five takeaways from the interview, and how can you apply them? How does the information in the interview relate to what you already know? Looking at the interviewee’s responses to the questions, how do you rate them, and how would you have answered differently? How can you combine key ideas in the interview to what you … [Read more...]
Make the Most of What You Have
November 28, 2011 by
Recently, I attended a book signing event at Indigo Books and Music where Walter Isaacson talked about his biography of Steve Jobs. Indigo’s CEO Heather Reisman did an excellent job interviewing Isaacson, and the audience got some deep insights into why Jobs was the way he was. Isaacson remarked that kindness was not among Jobs’ top 100 traits – words he used to describe him include: Petulant, artistic, emotional, genius, mean, dual-personality, intuitive, control freak, liked to have his own way, had the ability to engender loyalty. If someone were eulogizing you, what would your top 100 traits be? I’ve been thinking that I’m … [Read more...]
Mentor Yourself With Entrepreneur Evan Carmichael Part Two
November 11, 2011 by
Interviewee Name: Evan Carmichael Company Name: EvanCarmichael.com Website: http://www.evancarmichael.com Avil Beckford: Tell me a little bit about yourself. Evan Carmichael: I’m the founder of a website called EvanCarmichael.com and we’re an online resource for entrepreneurs. We have 14 million people who check out the website and we try to give them motivations to keep going in their business and also some strategies to help them grow their companies. Before that I had a biotech software company, built it up, sold it then hooked up with a venture capital company and was raising venture capital for entrepreneurs and the … [Read more...]
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