THE DREAM IN ACTION

Today the Finnish government announced that it will become the first in the world to make broadband internet access a legal right of every individual in Finland. They’ll start in July of 2010 providing every person one-megabit of broadband connection with full intention to increase that to 100mb by 2015. This is an enormous first [...]

As of December 1, the Federal Trade Commission is going to require bloggers, and prominent tweeters and Facebook types to disclose any paid endorsements to their followers, online friends and readers. These new rules have the potential to change everyone’s online habits. A trend, al biet not a common one, among bloggers is to take [...]

In my short time in Chicago, I’ve realized that there are more folks into tech startups than many people realize, however our smaller but still passion startup community doesn’t quite have the “presence” and sense of availability of other startup hubs (ie. Bay Area & NYC). Hubs have events that pull these communities together and [...]

image via briansolis I’m in a GE management training program full of over achievers. These individuals are smart and know how to play the corp ladder climbing game very well. One thing I here all the time is, “I need to build my network”. I’ve always questioned this sentiment because I question the value of [...]

For as long as I can remember I’ve always found myself envying and analyzing people who are very successful. I’ve studied their personality traits, their career paths, and anything else that I feel might reveal a common denominator that I may be able to learn from. I’ve come to the conclusion that success is about [...]

In my humble opinion, I believe that Umair Haque is one of the most innovative thinkers of our time. But, to be consistent with his own arguments, that doesn’t matter. What matters for Umair is ‘awesomeness’ and he gets that through his ability to deconstruct complex thoughts. Innovation, he claims is not enough for success [...]

Eight years ago, I was a SR. in high school and I woke up to my alarm clock set to 91X, the local San Diego rock channel. The only problem was that on this particular morning they weren’t playing ‘Crawling’ by Linkin Park or ‘How you remind me’ by Nickelback, they were just talking, and [...]

What skills do you think the perfect entrepreneur needs to have? My answer would be (and I assume yours would be similar), the perfect entrepreneur has every skill that a business requires in order to get started and grow, then that same entrepreneur would have to have the leadership skills to guide a newly acquired [...]

I recently came across one of the more talented videographers I’ve ever seen on the web. Jon Rawlinson is a filmmaker, cinematographer and editor based in Vancouver, Canada. He’s been doing documentaries and corporate video production for about 7 years and has done projects in over 30 countries (awesome). I only know Jon through his [...]

Updated Image: I snapped this gem in a public square in Sodermalm, Stockholm. I honestly thought it was Bruno for a minute, then realized it was just a cheap, but hilarious, imitation. It’s all about ‘exposure’. The Hidden Secret of Successful Blogging As you probably know, building a real following or reader base on your [...]

Learning From Others As I work on my “Lessons Learned” post after closing down SocialDreamium (post should be ready by Wednesday) there is one main lesson that sticks out above the rest. The one lesson that I couldn’t wait until Wednesday to post is the importance of learning from others experiences! As a first time [...]

This post is very different from any I’ve ever written here on TDIA. I should first say that I am by no means any kind of authority on new or trending music. I don’t claim to be someone who is good at finding music before most others. For that check out @melillo and Say.No.Radio. It’s [...]

This is a guest post by a very early to the game, iGoogle widget developer who turn a small project into a huge profit. Cameron Hall, a co-worker of mine, and a graduate of Cornell University held onto his widget just long enough so he could use the credibility as a resume builder. He ended [...]

In my post, how to get a job in a crap economy, we talked about building your network before you need them. I want to stress this point again and provide an example that you can use today in order to do this effectively. Building my network and learning from the people around me is [...]

When you are a leader people listen. Things get done because of your ability to see the big picture and communicate the intended outcome. You are effective because you don’t have to do everything yourself, you have the ability to piece the big picture  together and delegate tasks appropriately. Unfortunately, becoming a “listened to” leader [...]