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Why you are not happy: mapping your career in retrospect

by Allan Jenkins on October 12, 2008

Dave Pollard, of the How to Save the World blog, has a new book out, Finding the Sweet Spot: the Natural Entrepreneur’s Guide to Responsible, Sustainable, Joyful Work. Pollard’s blog is on my very small “daily reads” list. He’s a…

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Hopkins & Cook publish revised Social Media white paper

by Allan Jenkins on March 24, 2008

Lee Hopkins and Trevor Cook, two of Australia’s the world’s quick-witted thinkers about social media, have published the 3rd edition of their white paper Social Media (or how we stopped worrying and learnt to love communication). In 46 pages of…

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Nigeria scams wire the nation

by Allan Jenkins on April 9, 2007

Regular readers of Desirable Roasted Coffee know how much I enjoy Nigerian scam letters. I feel they are a sorely unappreciated genre, one worthy of many years of study by linguists and cultural anthropologists, and not unlike poetry. I will…

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The Primary Colors

by Allan Jenkins on August 7, 2006

“Blue is a mysterious color, hue of illness and nobility, the rarest color in nature. It is the color of ambiguous depth, of the heavens and of the abyss at once; blue is the color of the shadow side, the…

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Quote of the week

by Allan Jenkins on May 28, 2006

I found this little gem over at Mike Manuel’s place: Technorati will let you know when your foot’s on fire, but it won’t tell you how to put it out. This is where technology stops and PR starts.

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Heads up! Read Albrycht on Web 2.0

by Allan Jenkins on May 16, 2006

Elizabeth Albrycht has posted a recent speech she gave about Web 2.0. Great insights, and I can only imagine the discussion afterwards. With all due respect to Elizabeth, she started down an interesting path, only to draw back just as…

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Nigerian Scams: the perfect mark

by Allan Jenkins on May 10, 2006

We all get those scam letters: “God bless, I am the widow of Wilson Obote, former minister of village relocation, and I have the sum of $45 (forty-five) million….” The New Yorker runs an article this week about the perfect…

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Three, not 33, blogs

by Allan Jenkins on May 9, 2006

Stuart Bruce’s list of 33 favorite blogs inspires me to a 10th of his effort, but it’s an effort all the same. Out of the 400+ mostly communication/PR/advertising blogs I read, a handful have nothing to do with communication. And…

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There’s a new blog in town: NevilleHobson.com

by Allan Jenkins on February 16, 2006

Friend Neville Hobson — oh, you don’t know Neville? The guy, the guru, the mentor who has pretty much created whatever awareness European biz has for social media? Yes, that guy — has a new blog at NevilleHobson.com. Now, I…

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A democracy of groups: a tremendous article by Beth Simone Noveck

by Allan Jenkins on November 10, 2005

First Monday is one of the few peer-reviewed journals on the Internet, and is, as far as I know, the only one devoted entirely to the Internet. It was originally Danish, so I started reading it from Issue One, in…

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