Paul's Stream - New Addition

My friends tell me I find some interesting things when I go on Twitter or to the posts I read or whatever I do. So I have decided to add another twist to this blog - Paul's stream. As I capture things that I think are interesting I will add the links here. I won't quit doing occasional summaries of articles I like or the occasional thought piece that is more than 140 characters, but I will share my eclectic stream of interest. If others find it intriguing to see what I latch onto - have fun. I'm sure sometimes links will break and items will loose interest over time but for what stays this will provide you a chance to sit by and dip in my "stream".

Here's the first set:

What can you learn from executives who use Twitter well? splash

I believe Robert Scoble has put a mash-up of various pros together. Here are rules to live by

Are you pompous? splash

Is bulldozing cities the way to save them? splash

Role of environment in behavior. splash

Not knowledge management - wisdom management. splash

Did you know about this NYT learning opportunity? splash

What happens when leadership passes generationally? splash

More later.

Take Your Community to the Next Level

Stuart Foster at The Lost Jacket.com had a worthwhile recent post about taking your community to the next level. Despite everything you are doing not enough discussions are happening, people aren't engaging with each other and your community is spinning towards irrelevance. I like Foster's five recommendations:

1. Incite. Take a stand. Do something interesting.
2. Invite new people, with new and exciting voices, to the discussion.
3. Take your content to another community. Grow your community by exposing new people to your voice, product or service.
4. Inject your personality into the mix. To succeed you need a distinctive and real voice. People can sense passion and you should be sweating from every pore.
5. Be everywhere. Hit every place you can think of and own it.