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My Most Popular Posts from 2013
I’m a bit of a stats guy. I like playing with numbers to understand things better. As I look at the most popular posts from the past year, I can’t say that I’m entirely surprised. There’s a big amount...
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Thoughts on IBM Pulse 2014
I had the pleasure of attending IBM Pulse yesterday in Las Vegas. Nearly 10,000 customers partners, IBM employees, and media members arrived at the MGM Grand to learn about the most recent advances in...
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Obesity and the Big-Data Revolution
Few things are potentially more powerful than sentiment analysis. Consider a few of the recent technological trends unfolding before our very eyes: open APIs, a precipitous drop in start-up costs,...
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Visualizing Breaking Bad Fan IMDB Ratings
Readers of this site know how much I enjoy Breaking Bad. I certainly have my favorite episodes, including the show’s pilot and, for my money, Vince Gilligan’s magnum opus “Ozymandias.” Now, thanks to...
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The Visual Organization Slides
A few people have asked to see some of the slides from the book tour. Yes, they are visible during my talks. I used the deck below as the template for a few of my talks. Knock yourself out....
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A “Bad” Book Contest
Readers of my site and books know that I’m a huge Breaking Bad fan. Aside from appearing in a commercial and interviewing Jonathan Banks, I recently was able to snag a couple of autographs at an IBM...
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The Case for Visual Resumes
Like you, I know a thing or two about resumes. Upon graduating college, I submitted “normal” resumes and cover letters to more jobs than I could count. Then, I sat on the other side of the desk. Back...
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Life without Cable TV: One Month Later
About a month ago, I joined roughly five million Americans and cut the cord. Here are some thoughts on lessons learned so far: Cutting the cord is empowering. Let me channel my inner Dee Snyder for a...
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Looking for Examples and Case Studies for My Next Book
Updated: 08.06.14 Thanks for all of the responses. At this point, I have nearly ten promising case studies. The balcony is closed. My next book, Message Not Received: How New Technologies and Simpler...
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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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Adding New Data Sources: An App-Like Future
A recent spate of customer-service issues caused me to cut the cord with my cable TV provider. Although I spend my leisure time playing tennis and watching groundbreaking shows (read: Breaking Bad), I...
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Want to Sponsor the Message Not Received Book Tour?
Last spring I hit the road to promote The Visual Organization for my first ever book tour in San Francisco. Because I’m no Lena Dunham (not that I’m complaining, mind you), I funded the tour on my own...
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When One Message Yields Two Very Different Reactions
Over the past year, I’ve become a big fan of the sketch-comedy show Key & Peele. The bits are fresh and often decidedly politically incorrect. (The Obama meet-and-greet is one of my faves.) As a...
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Looking for Stops on the Message Not Received Book Tour
Three weeks ago, I announced that I wanted to do a book tour for Message Not Received and, to that end, would be seeking sponsors. I have good news to report. I’ll be announcing the first sponsor very...
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The Case for Tweaking
I recently wrote a guest post for Elegant Themes. It’s about my new site and how I am much more able to build and tweak things for myself since I applied one of its themes, Divi. Here’s an excerpt....
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Audiobook Version of Message Now Available
Five weeks ago, I announced that an audiobook version of Message Not Received was coming. It’s done. Here’s a three-minute sample: Check it out on Audible here. Props to Jonathan Yen. The post...
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Celebrating Post Number 1,000
When was this site born? Let’s say 1/1/2009, but with a disclaimer. I had launched and maintained previous versions of this site dating back to 2002, but I really didn’t blog back then. Most of my...
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The Vicious Cycle of Conference Mediocrity
Think about the last five proper conferences that you attended. (Forget Meetups.) I’ll wait. How many of them were actually worth your time and the expense? (Forget for a moment if your company footed...
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Why Analytics Matter More than Ever
Which companies today are really embracing analytics and Big Data? I’m talking about the ones who are actually walking the talk. Think about it for a moment. For my money, the “Big Four” of Big Data...
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My Divi Nation Podcast with Nathan Weller
Around this time last year, I went live with Divi—a really neat WordPress theme from Elegant Themes. (Here is the post announcing it.) In the year since, I’ve become a reasonable active member of the...
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