Terry has created a blog. Yeah, she fell for it… ha. Poor woman. I tried to explain schadenfreude to her - bloggers take joy in watching others fall victim to this cunning tricknology. She knows the risks. As soon as she creates some content, I’ll link you up to her. She’s got ideas and we’re lucky that she wants to start sharing them. You can email her and encourage her yourself.

Plan Resonate has been working on a huge project related to social media strategy (stay tuned).

Are you one of those people that checks [tag]web stats[/tag] several times per day? Do you love having a clear sense of what your readers are looking for?

For example, I base some of my blog content on the search phrases that lead people to my site. I don’t do it extensively, but it has an influence. “Farmer Bros Coffee” is important to my readers, and so is “Netflix strategic management”. You’d think that everyone would take site stats seriously. Where else in the world of strategy can you get such immediate feedback?

If you’re interested in web stats, or considering upgrading stats packages, you’ll enjoy reading this study from Pat McCarthy. ( Via Jeff Nolan )

You might get the sense from this blog that I spend my free time going to high brow cultural events. You should know better. I spend most of my free time on the internet!

Every once in awhile I try to take advantage of living in [tag]San Francisco[/tag]. There’s always a lot to do; ranging from the fancy schmancy to the artsy fartsy to the ghetto fabulous.

TONIGHT: come experience one of SF’s greatest in high energy indie power pop soul punk bands [tag]Whitey on the Moon[/tag] at the Rickshaw Stop.

NEXT MONDAY: get your tech collab on at Sugar Lounge at 8. This is something that’s being organized with Tom and Nick. It should be fun and we might just make a regular event out of it.

If you’re around [tag]Palo Alto[/tag] this week you might not want to miss the [tag]Stanford Pan-Asian Music Festival[/tag]. I was lucky to see the [tag]Farid Ayaz Qawwal[/tag] performance last Sunday and it was unbelievable.

The Saturday morning vocal performance with [tag]Sanjay Subrahmanyam[/tag] seems like it would be a lot of fun. Have you ever gone to see a carnatic classical music performance at 9:00 am? I haven’t yet…

This post offers a simple methodology that you can use to help your team learn from emergent tactics. By following these instructions, you can reduce your chances of making the same mistakes twice, and never again misjudge your customers’ love for Bootsy Collins. The secret is to document and learn from your emergent tactics.

Emergent tactics are the actions that you take on a day to day basis to give your business an edge. I call them emergent because they often arise through a process of experimentation. You learn from your experiments and your experiences, and this learning can become intellectual capital that will benefit your entire organization. This intellectual capital will empower your team to make stronger assumptions, and reduce your exposure to unproductive risks.

Emergent tactics may come to you through trial and error, a good blog post, divine inspiration, or plain luck. Whatever their source, you can be sure that some ideas will succeed, and others will fail. Recording these successes and failures will make your business more intelligent in the future.

We’ll assume that you’ve recently decided to stage an email promotional campaign to the some of the members of your mailing list. Bootsy Collins is presenting at the upcoming Funk Soul Expo in Cincinnati, and you’ve bought a bunch of tickets to give to your loyal customers. Read the rest of this entry »

Recently I had the good luck to meet Chris and Scott at a workshop. They taught me about an interesting collaborative effort to create a dedicated coworking space for mobile professionals in San Francisco.

We’re using a wiki to document our efforts. You can witness our progress at:

http://coworking.pbwiki.com

Email me if you’d like to contribute to the design. It’s an organic volunteer effort that’s bringing together a bunch of people who want a physical commons that can support the work that’s happening in the digital commons.

There has to be a better way than the ad hoc working arrangements happening at places like Ritual Roasters and Atlas Cafe. Those places have been great at building community, and it shouldn’t have to interfere with their core food service business. They’ve both been demonstrating the need for a dedicated work space in the Mission District.

Efforts are already underway to create a space in San Francisco and Dallas. Who will be next?

We all get busy and stress about deadlines, or some client problem. We get wrapped up in family problems too… and suddenly we’ve lost the big picture.

Take a minute to read this amazing story, and see if things don’t settle back into their proper perspective. Such an incredible and otherwise perfectly normal woman.

Xtracycle and Worldbike have been having a big year. It’s fun to watch.

You’ll enjoy this two part interview in Grist Magazine with Xtracycle co-founder Kipchoge Spencer.

You should check out what they’re doing if you haven’t before.