October 2008 - Articles - The International Business Academies

What is Real Profit?

I like to use quotations to highlight and build a case. Also to make us think and reflect. While looking for quotations for the word connect , I found that sometimes we in the business world look at connecting, not in a wrong way, but incompletely. "I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with my interests...

Published Thu, Oct 10 2008 10:02 AM by Art Butcher

Filed under: networking, strategy, connect, connections, growth

Norman Perlmutter Learns the Power of Writing a Book

The economic downturn has brought to light the growing debt load shouldered by many Americans. Norman Perlmutter wants to change that grim reality. After years working on the other side , assisting creditors as the owner of a collection agency and financial...

Published Thu, Oct 10 2008 7:45 AM by Get Slightly Famous - Get Slightly Famous

Filed under: Success Stories

Strategic Partnerships: The Potential for Profitable Relationships Abound

Helene Solomon , a principal in the Boston-based strategic communications firm Solomon McCown & Company embraces strategic alliances to establish her firm in prime industries. Solomon organizes an educational panel discussion series titled SM&...

Published Mon, Oct 10 2008 7:47 AM by Get Slightly Famous - Get Slightly Famous

Filed under: Features

“The Turn of the Tide” by Arthur Gordon

I came across this story when reading Stephan Covey's 7 Habits and thought everyone might enjoy it. ****************************** Arthur Gordon tells of a time in his life when he began to feel that everything was stale and flat. His enthusiasm had all but disappeared; his writing efforts were fruitless, and the situation was getting worse day by day. Finally, he decided to get help from a medical...

Published Thu, Oct 10 2008 3:18 PM by Art Butcher

Filed under: reflection

Ron Clark Students Musical Political Debate Reaches Ellen and You Tube

7th Graders Debate Obama vs. McCain View You Tube Video Above! Seventh graders from the Ron Clark Academy perform "You Can Vote However You Like," a parody to TI's "Whatever You Like ... Seventh graders from the Ron Clark Academy perform "You Can Vote However You Like," a parody to TI's "Whatever You Like," at the Coca-Cola Leadership Summit in Atlanta, Georgia...

Published Sun, Oct 10 2008 5:11 PM by Kathleen Smart

Filed under: ron clark, events

TAG Enterprise 2.0 to host AWS Tech Evangelist - Jinesh Varia

This one might be of interest to some of you barcampers: The Technology Association of Georgia’s Enterprise 2.0 Society will be hosting a talk by Amazon Web Services’ Technology Evangelist Jinesh Varia. The talk will be held at the GTRI Conference...

Published Sat, Oct 10 2008 12:13 PM by David S. Cohen - Left Brain, Right Brain

Filed under: social media, Live event, Other Interests, commentary, Barcamp Atlanta, Uncategorized, barcampatl08, tagent2, aws, amazon web services

A word about my Barcamp posts

If you know me, then you know that I have both a math and art background. I used to be a webmaster, and I was a co-founder of a company that did java development for telephony companies and one that built middleware for mobile applications. So even though...

Published Sat, Oct 10 2008 11:29 AM by David S. Cohen - Left Brain, Right Brain

Filed under: social media, Live event, Other Interests, commentary, barcampatlanta, barcampatl, barcamp, Barcamp Atlanta, barcampatl08

Barcamp 2 - Day 2 - Glen Gordon discusses ASP.net MVC

It’s beta. Michael Ivey says it is cool, and when a merb guy says a msft thing is worth looking at I figure I should check it out. I’m definitely feeling tired though. My typings is particularly clumsy today, so you probably have noticed that...

Published Sat, Oct 10 2008 11:19 AM by David S. Cohen - Left Brain, Right Brain

Filed under: Live event, Other Interests, commentary, barcampatlanta, barcampatl, barcamp, Barcamp Atlanta, barcampatl08, asp.netmvc

Barcamp 2 - Day 2 - Lance on Twitter

Lance Weatherby of ATDC fame is presenting on Twitter. And he made his presentation using it. He is putting up tweets on why people use twitter. Once again, I should apologize to my usual readers who may not know what I’m talking about. I’m...

Published Sat, Oct 10 2008 10:28 AM by David S. Cohen - Left Brain, Right Brain

Filed under: social media, networking, personal branding, Live event, Other Interests, commentary, barcampatlanta, barcampatl, barcamp, Barcamp Atlanta, twitter

Barcamp 2 - day 2 - Saturday morning roundtable for bloggers

Got up a little late today, but finally arrived at ATDC for Day 2 of Barcamp. Sitting in on a discussion about blogging. Folks are talking about what they blog about and what platform. WordPress seems to be the most popular. Drupal is mentioned, but generally...

Published Sat, Oct 10 2008 9:59 AM by David S. Cohen - Left Brain, Right Brain

Filed under: social media, blogging, Live event, commentary, barcampatlanta, barcampatl, barcamp, Barcamp Atlanta

Barcamp 2 - How to get buzz without being a scumbag spammer

Wow! A Barcamp topic with marketing appeal. Yes, I’m still furiously tyoping this out live at Barcamp. This is not a marketing event, it is targeted to developers and technologists, but hey sometimes world’s collide (in a good way). Moderator...

Published Fri, Oct 10 2008 10:01 PM by David S. Cohen - Left Brain, Right Brain

Filed under: social media, networking, marketing, Live event, Other Interests, commentary, barcampatlanta, barcampatl, barcamp, Barcamp Atlanta, Uncategorized, context

Barcamp 2 - Friday night continues - Where are the girls?

Next session I’m sitting in on is called “Where are the girls?” A fair question for such a technology-focused event. I’d say the event this year has more women than last year, and I think right now 90% of them are in this room...

Published Fri, Oct 10 2008 9:31 PM by David S. Cohen - Left Brain, Right Brain

Filed under: Live event, Other Interests, commentary, barcampatlanta, barcampatl, barcamp, Barcamp Atlanta, women

Barcamp 2 - more from Friday night

Gave my talk on branding for startups. Discussed the Three R’s of branding and some of the particular issues of note for a young company trying to get established in an Internet driven economy. Then I went late to a talk on the Erlang programming...

Published Fri, Oct 10 2008 8:50 PM by David S. Cohen - Left Brain, Right Brain

Filed under: Live event, Other Interests, commentary, barcampatlanta, barcampatl, barcamp, Barcamp Atlanta

Barcamp 2 - the sequel

I can’t believe it has been a year since the first Atlanta Barcamp! And for you folks saying “What’s Barcamp?” You’ll just have to bear with me for a little while. Yes, i’m a branding guy now, but I have nerdy roots...

Published Fri, Oct 10 2008 7:25 PM by David S. Cohen - Left Brain, Right Brain

Filed under: Live event, Other Interests, commentary, barcampatlanta, barcampatl, barcamp, Barcamp Atlanta

Your Connections are Your Real Asset

Your connections and your connecting skills are your real asset. With them you succeed in all manners of your business and personal life. Here's why... From Wikipedia we learn an asset is something possessed (tangible and intangible) by a person or business from which future benefits may be obtained. The probable future benefit involves a capacity, singly or in combination with other assets; in...

Published Wed, Oct 10 2008 10:07 AM by Art Butcher

Filed under: networking, marketing, strategy, business development, asset, connect

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