Despite recent attention to the implications of giving Facebook full access to our online lives, I don't think it's shifting the average person's thinking about their use of a centralized, closed-off version of the web. For most people, the affirmation that there is no real alternative to Facebook doesn't mean they leave Facebook, it means … Continue reading Bringing people back to the open web
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As a follow-up to my post on what I've learned over the years about hiring people, this is a similar list of what I've learned about training and onboarding people as you welcome them into your organization. Many organizations reduce training to a pretty simple process ("here's the training manual, here's your trainer, go"), but I find … Continue reading On training people
After years of various roles in which I've been solely or jointly responsible for hiring people into businesses and organizations, I offer some thoughts on what I think works. Hiring is ultimately about entering into a new relationship with someone. Actions and words that truly honor the joys, anxieties, vulnerabilities and interdependencies of that process will tend to … Continue reading On hiring people
While I was in Chicago this past week for the professional technical conference some of us from Summersault were attending, we were walking to dinner one night and witnessed the driver of an SUV come within inches of hitting a cyclist. Despite the fact that the driver was rushing to turn through a yellow light, … Continue reading When people driving cars kill people riding bikes
I lost some momentum writing about our trip to Japan after the first two posts when life and work got busy, but appreciate those of you who diplomatically asked if there was more coming. Pardon the pause, I'm hoping to wrap this up in a few more posts soon! On the third day of the … Continue reading Japan trip: Okinawa cooking, nerd district, Borderless
I'm sharing highlights and photos from my first trip to Japan. Previously: Intro, travel, Tokyo exploring. At the end of our first full day in country, we met up with our travel group, four other families from across the U.S. and Canada, along with our local guides who would be helping us navigate our adventure. … Continue reading Japan trip: temples, shrines and micro pigs
I went in to my first trip to Japan with a few concerns: would I stand out as an obnoxious, clueless American tourist? Would any of the Japanese language practice I’d been doing with our daughter be useful? Would we see and experience “enough” to make the extended travel needed to get there and back … Continue reading Japan trip: intro, travel, Tokyo exploring
It's been about four months since I became owner and publisher of my community's local print newspaper. In the spirit of transparency and working out in the open, we recently shared our first report to the community about our operations, health and future plans. I also geeked out a bit with a blog post on … Continue reading On the first 4 months of owning a newspaper
I’m excited to share the news that I’m diving fully into the world of community newspaper publishing. As of October 1, I’m the owner and publisher of the Western Wayne News here in Wayne County, Indiana. If you’re not familiar with it, WWN is a weekly print newspaper that covers news, events, sports, government meetings, … Continue reading So, I bought a newspaper
In October of 2022 I became the owner and publisher of the Western Wayne News, Wayne County, Indiana’s locally owned, independent newspaper since 1991. It’s distributed weekly in print as well as online. Our reporting and stories about news, events, sports, government meetings, community updates and much more reach tens of thousands of people in … Continue reading Western Wayne News