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At SXSW yesterday, I ran a "core conversation" called 10 Easy Ways to Piss Off a Blogger. This year at SXSW, these aptly titled "conversations" were a type of speaking slot where there was a round table and the challenge of engaging people in a discussion about a particular topic. Mine was one close to … Read more
Blogs are all about ego. Anyone who disagrees is just kidding themselves. Of course, ego is a word that comes with all sorts of connotations. Many people assume it is bad. To a degree, marketing has always been about ego, because it is a necessary element of each of your personalities. However, here is the … Read more
For those who are fans of Guy Kawasaki, there is a phenomenon he is fond of calling "Guy’s golden touch." It is his own trademark reversal of a well known saying, where he likes to note that "everything that turns to gold is what whatever is gold Guy touches." (Correction for the confusing structure I … Read more
Note: This post is republished from the original posted on the Ogilvy 360 Digital Influence blog. On November 24, 2007, a fellow named Dan Ackerman Greenberg wrote the kind of blog post that was either the dumbest of his career, or the most brilliant … depending on how you look at it. The post was … Read more
At every conference or tradeshow, you get a badge. I have a box full of them on my desk, an increasing number of them with the title of "Speaker" affixed beneath my name. I recently had a conversation with some colleagues about the importance of being a speaker at an event. Often, the most important … Read more
The first thing I should say is that I was planning to write about Blogger Social 2008 anyway. You’ll see why I started with that disclaimer in a moment … Just about everyone in any kind of communications role has probably reach out to at least one blogger at some point to share something of … Read more
Today is the day for new year’s resolutions. For most people, this means the inevitable pledges to get healthy, lose weight, work less and spend more time with family. Like any good blogger, though, I have several social media resolutions for the new year. In no particular order, here are my three big ones: Comment … Read more
The author of one of the greatest blogs on the Internet announced a few weeks ago that he would be posting far less often. In a world where it seems that everyone (and their mom) is starting a blog for one reason or another, seeing one prominent and popular blogger decide to do it less … Read more
Over the last two and a half years of blogging, I’ve published many tips and tricks to help people who are just starting blogging on how to find time to blog, styles of blogging or ways to optimize your blog. One thing I haven’t written that much about is how I decide whether something is … Read more
Several months ago I participated in the LitLiberation Blogger Challenge launched by my friend Tim Ferriss to try and raise money for DonorsChoose.org (a site which allows teachers to submit funding proposals to ask for help doing something they don’t normally get the funding for). Around the same time, I started playing around with Amazon … Read more
Non-Obvious Thinking is my upcoming book about the 4 secrets of becoming a non-obvious thinker - coming 09/24!
Rohit Bhargava is a trend curator, founder of the Non-Obvious Company and the 3-time Wall Street Journal bestselling author of ten books.
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Rohit is the author of 10 books on trends, the future of business, building a more human brand with storytelling and how to create a more diverse and inclusive world.
