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Author Archives: Amanda McCormick
Searching for Success in the Connection Economy: Or, I Spent All Day in a Room with Seth Godin
Yesterday I went from a person who only had a vague notion of Seth Godin as a marketing-guru-slash-author to one of those people who quotes Seth Godin like he’s the number one God of all things futuristic and innovative. Sorry … Continue reading
A beginner’s guide to @LooseCubes
“Why would I want to work from someone else’s office when I get so much done at home?” was one of my friend’s reactions when I tried to explain to her what I was doing booking random desks around the … Continue reading
Posted in Artists & Writers, Bloggers, Blogging, Brilliant + free, Content Discovery, DIY, How-to, Resources, The Work
Tagged coworking, loosecubes
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Compact digital strategy in a hurry!
Starting in June, I’ll be teaching some Skillshare courses as a a fun, quick and useful way to learn to leverage various digital strategies to burnish your business or career. I hope you’ll check them out!
Making Movies
When I was at NYU film school I had one of the coolest jobs ever. I was a teaching assistant. Sometimes I worked with the same professors, and sometimes I rolled the dice and let the administrators pair me up … Continue reading
Posted in The Work, Video
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Campfire meet hackathon: @storycodeorg’s first ever #storyhack @filmlinc
Have you ever been to, or participated in, a “hackathon”? I have, at Betaworks, where we mixed it up with cohorts from the different portfolio companies (Bitly, SocialFlow, Chartbeat, etc) to create a tech product in a hurry. The idea … Continue reading
Getting “lean”
I’m reading a pretty amazing book called “The Lean Startup” right now. Actually, it’s more than just a book, it’s a movement…or a cult. I had learned of it first from a colleague in startupland. At the time I understood … Continue reading
Learn anything by creating a “dream learning plan” with @Skillshare and @Good
Last week, I managed to stumble, quite serendipitously, into a burgeoning community of learning called Skillshare. The occasion was something called the Penny Conference, which was an extremely engaging and well-curated presentation that espoused Skillshare’s own peculiar philosophy on the … Continue reading
Easier Said Than Done
I always identified a lot with the character of Max in Rushmore. I didn’t actually get good grades in school, but I was always hatching these crazy elaborate schemes during the times between when the bell kept me in a … Continue reading
Work outside the box with @LooseCubes
Sometimes I wish I had become a “corporate anthropologist” studying what people do, and who they become, after spending the vast majority of their lives under artificial light and in fabric covered boxes. I’d be a cubicle-chronicler, looking critically at … Continue reading
Posted in Artists & Writers, Bloggers, Blogging, Brilliant + free, Resources, Small is Brilliant, Social Media, Social Media @ Work, The Work
Tagged Loose Cubes
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Brooklyn Public Library’s POWER UP! Competition
On Saturday, when the whole world was seemingly frolicking in the sun, I was in a windowless auditorium at the Brooklyn Public Library. And I was thrilled to be there. You see, I was there to check out PowerUP! which is a … Continue reading
Posted in Brilliant + free, Nonprofit/Cultural, Resources, The Work
Tagged Brooklyn Public Library, PowerUP!
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