Writing tips Out of the depths In the early days at Trinity, Lou Patrick took opportunities to travel to conferences to learn and study the works of current theologians. It was on one of these sabbaticals…
Marketing tips, Writing tips Consider these facts about Americans who speak English At least 50 percent of the unemployed are functionally illiterate (US Department of Labor Statistics).The average kindergarten student has seen more than 5,000 hours of television, having spent more time…
Marketing tips Does your business need an online community? by Mark Schaefer https://businessesgrow.com/2021/11/10/online-community/
Marketing tips How can a brand offer a sense of ultimate self-realization or self-acceptance? How can a brand offer a sense of ultimate self-realization or self-acceptance? Here are a few ideas: Inspiration: If an aspect of your brand can offer or be associated with…
Marketing tips, Publishing tips, Writing tips 84 percent of all businesses started from a random event Business consultant Martin Lindstrom estimates that 84 percent of all businesses started from a random event. Fortune 500 companies like Starbucks and Home Depot and products such as Velcro, Viagra,…
Marketing tips, Publishing tips, Writing tips The best innovation labs are always a little contaminated Nemeth has gone on to document the same phenomenon at work in dozens of different environments: mock juries, boardrooms, academic seminars. Her research suggests a paradoxical truth about innovation: good…
Marketing tips, Writing tips My favorite quote about creating content by Mark Schaefer https://businessesgrow.com/2021/11/03/quote-about-creating-content/
Marketing tips, Writing tips The debased currency of public discourse is what is available to them Remote as we may think we are from the horrors of the German propaganda machine, the applicability of Steiner’s concern to the condition of contemporary American English may be obvious…
Writing tips Consistent work If writing is your gift, then write. Consider it your job. This project you’re working on is the bit of world that you’re holding in place for the rest of…
Marketing tips What’s the difference between thought leaders and a personal brand? by Mark Schaefer https://businessesgrow.com/2021/10/25/thought-leaders/
Marketing tips, Publishing tips, Writing tips We tend to forget the luck that is the wind at our backs Chilean sociologists Mario Molina and Mauricio Bucca noticed that when their friends played a card game that was totally based on chance, they insisted that their winning streak was based…
Marketing tips, Writing tips The consequences of language abuse Warnings about the consequences of language abuse have been issued before. George Orwell in 1946 and George Steiner in 1959 lamented the way that language, co-opted and twisted to serve…
Marketing tips Five ways to build your audience through Twitter-related tactics Here are five ways to build your audience through Twitter-related tactics: Mine Twitter Lists. Once you’re on Twitter for a while, you’ll notice that people place you on public lists.…
Writing tips The story itself has the final say Because memoir by its very nature, is only a small window into the author’s life, one of the delights of writing memoir is discovering the best frame for that window.…
Uncategorized The kingdom of heaven is like the Brooklyn Public Library "The kingdom of heaven is like a library. Its power has nothing to do with coercion or control. It strives toward order but does not make an idol of its…
Marketing tips, Publishing tips, Writing tips By the time I’m 15 or 16 years old, I knew the entire mechanics of a record company Kristian Bush is one of Nashville’s most prolific singer-songwriters and is best known for being one half of the Grammy-winning, multi-platinum band Sugarland. Kristian told me that a mashup of…
Marketing tips How do you build a personal brand when your life is in chaos? by Mark Schaefer https://businessesgrow.com/2021/10/18/life-is-in-chaos/
Writing tips Caring for words is a moral issue Caring for language is a moral issue. Caring for one another is not entirely separable from caring for words. Words are entrusted to us as equipment for our life together,…
Writing tips Divine multiplicity Once I started reading up on the third Person of the Trinity, I discovered how many theologians were ahead of me. The feminine pronoun is not as important to all…
Uncategorized How to Think Outside Your Brain https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/11/opinion/brain-mind-cognition.html?referringSource=articleShare
