http://haystackneedle.com/blog Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:43:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Another concept to make people take notice, watch, participate, smile. Build an impromptu slip-n-slide. Lather it up. Provide peanut gallery seating with flavored "icees." Bring extra garbage bag sliding devices. Leave the hose on. Then rinse and repeat next month. Get the kids ... http://haystackneedle.com/blog/building-community-giant-slip-n-slide/ I'd like see more people produce more "free outdoor movie" series in our hometowns. What feeling does that give you? I became a fan of the "oldies" movies showcased on summer Mondays in Bryant Park (NYC) and thought it might be interesting to setup a cool-but-cheap movie theater ... http://haystackneedle.com/blog/building-community-movies-in-the-park/ “If the only prayer you say in your whole life is "Thank you," that would suffice.” ~ Meister Eckhart http://haystackneedle.com/blog/quotable-notes-thanks/ "One who returns to a place sees it with new eyes. Although the place may not have changed, the viewer inevitably has. For the first time things invisible before become suddenly visible." ~ Louis L'Amour http://haystackneedle.com/blog/quotable-notes-perspective/ "Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought." ~ Albert von Szent-Gyorgy http://haystackneedle.com/blog/quotable-notes-discovery/ It takes a salesperson to know a salesperson. If you've ever had to pitch or sell something, Ogilvy's recent promotion is a hoot. Check out their YouTube Channel on how to sell a brick: http://www.youtube.com/ogilvy http://haystackneedle.com/blog/sales-201/ I was recently looking for an iPhone/iPad app that would help me by transcribing voice memos into notes whereby I could quickly store the notes in my contacts file (CRM). After a fruitless (and admittedly short) search, I gave up. Then today I received an invite to Google ... http://haystackneedle.com/blog/google-voice/ "All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim; have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible." ~ Orison Swett Marden, 1850-1924, Writer, Physician, Hotel Owner and founder of Success Magazine http://haystackneedle.com/blog/quotable-notes-the-impossible/ Loved this insight from Ad Age / iMedia Connection. How Consumer Attitudes and Behaviors are Shaped in Social Media: 10 Essential Rules You’ve Never Heard Posted by Taddy Hall My good friends at Ad Age published a similar set of points on Monday. They seemed to resonate. Look forward to comments ... http://haystackneedle.com/blog/social-media-10-essential-rules-you%e2%80%99ve-never-heard/ "It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'" ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson http://haystackneedle.com/blog/quotable-notes-jump-in/