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The Origins Of Niceness

April 22, 2013

 

Interview with Josh Chetwynd, author of the book The Book of Nice: A Nice Book About Nice Things for Nice People

 

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Mike Carruthers:
You say hello countless times during the day and you have Thomas Edison to thank for it.

 

Josh Chetwynd:
Basically when he was creating the phone it was at the same time as Alexander Graham Bell and they had a war of words. Alexander Graham Bell wanted the phrase “ahoy”, actually “ahoy, ahoy” to be used when people answered the phone - whereas Thomas Edison wanted “hello”.
 
Josh Chetwynd

Technology Etiquette - Part 2

April 17, 2013

 

Interview with Daniel Post Senning, author of the book Emily Post's Manners in a Digital World: Living Well Online

 

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Mike Carruthers:
Etiquette and manners regarding cell phone use and technology in public are still evolving. However…

 

Daniel Post Senning:
The golden rule is that you want to give your attention to the people you’re with so you don’t want your mobile device to become a distraction and from the very important, very real personal interactions that are going on around you all of the time.
 
Daniel Post Senning

Technology Etiquette

April 16, 2013

 

Interview with Daniel Post Senning, author of the book Emily Post's Manners in a Digital World: Living Well Online

 

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Mike Carruthers:
With cell phones and new technology manners and etiquette seem to be changing some would say declining.

 

Daniel Post Senning:
Every generation faces the changes that occur in manners and ask itself are manners in decline? And the answer is no, the good news is that there are always new manners that are coming into being also.
 
Daniel Post Senning

Protecting Your Identity - Part 2

March 19, 2013

 

Interview with Scott Mitic, CEO of Trusted ID www.TrustedID.com

 

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Mike Carruthers:
Identity thieves love social media, why?

 

Scott Mitic:
Because we are free and easy with our information online in ways that we really aren’t offline. 
 
Scott Mitic

How Networking Really Works - Part 2

November 27, 2012

 

Interview with Larry Mohl, author of the book Networking Is Dead: Making Connections That Matter

 

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Mike Carruthers:
If you’re good at networking you go to a lot of events and you get a lot of business cards.

 

Larry Mohl:
And it’s almost the idea that I might get lucky and at that next function meet that 1 person who’s going to help me change my life – just doesn’t happen right? 
 
Larry Mohl

How Networking Really Works

November 26, 2012

 

Interview with Larry Mohl, author of the book Networking Is Dead: Making Connections That Matter

 

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Mike Carruthers:
Networking getting out there and meeting a lot of people that’s considered by many to be essential to achieving success and yet…

 

Larry Mohl:
What we’ve found is that when we talked to people about networking and the whole idea of networking what people tell us is they just hate it.
 
Larry Mohl

Choosing A Cell Phone

October 31, 2012

 

Interview with tech journalist Paul Hochman spokesperson for www.motorola.com

 

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Mike Carruthers:
Why is it that people are so loyal to their cell phones?

 

Paul Hochman:
The reason people feel loyal to their phone, probably, is because it’s so hard to learn a new one.
 
Paul Hochman

The Fonts You Use

September 11, 2012

 

Interview with Simon Garfield, author of the book Just My Type: A Book About Fonts

 

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Mike Carruthers:
Go to write something on your computer and you have a ton of different type styles to choose from. There are over 100 thousand of them in the world with more on the way. Don’t we have enough?

 

Simon Garfield:
You could say the same argument for love songs or landscape paintings. You think oh well there surely must be enough in the world but actually we are a creative race.
 
Simon Garfield

New Media Vs. Old Media - Part 2

September 5, 2012

 

Interview with Dan Kennedy, author of the book No B.S.Trust-Based Marketing: The Ultimate Guide to Creating Trust in an Understandably UN-Trusting World

 

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Mike Carruthers:
The very best way for organizations to sell people on their products and services has never changed.

 

Dan Kennedy:
We want people to feel like they are finding us coming our way of their initiative rather than feeling like they are being hunted down being hit over the head with a club.
 
Dan Kennedy

New Media Vs. Old Media

September 4, 2012

 

Interview with Dan Kennedy, author of the book No B.S.Trust-Based Marketing: The Ultimate Guide to Creating Trust in an Understandably UN-Trusting World

 

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Mike Carruthers:
In the world of advertising and marketing there’s a perception that new media, social media is the way to success but there’s evidence to the contrary.

 

Dan Kennedy:
For example in fund raising in non-profit last year 70% of all new donor acquisition came by direct mail - but there’s increasing emphasis in social media in that industry.
 
Dan Kennedy


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