Devin Reams

I’ve seen, first hand, the challenges faced when trying to get a group of people together on the internet. I’m a member of a of a number of online communities. I’ve also helped found a few communities. They include:

9rules - a group I really wanted to become a part of, the best of the best [...]

…unless you’re looking for mediocrity. Because that’s what happens when we

boil down our accomplishments into a one page memo, and
convince ourselves we can make a good decision based on a one-page memo.

Seth Godin hires interns and notes a resume is “an excuse to reject you.” If you’re truly exceptional you don’t need a resume. [...]

I’ve had this issue lately where I read something, process it, and stick it in the back of my brain for a while. We all do it, we passively absorb knowledge each and every day. It may be the newspaper, television, a co-worker, or heck, even something you read on Twitter.
But, then I come to [...]

When you sign up and join Twitter it’s about a lot of things. Some say it’s an ecosystem, it’s about the simplicity, it’s about the voyeurism, it’s communication porn and so on.
I think it’s also like walking into a chatroom with just the people you want. Any other chatroom (IRC, AOL, Yahoo Games!) has a [...]

If you’re looking to create a quick PDF you can simply copy and paste your document (or spreadsheet) into Google Docs and export it to a PDF. Neat, huh?
Wait, why aren’t you using Google Docs as your primary word processor or spreadsheet application?
Pros

Access everything from home, work, neighbor’s computer.
Simple online interface and no bloated software [...]

Transparency
Peter Knox sparked this off with his own monologue on transparency:
“This is my website. If you don’t want to hire me for this transparency, maybe I don’t want to work for you. If you don’t want to date me for this exposure, maybe I don’t want to date you … anonymous just isn’t for me [...]

From Keith Ferrazzi:
I do try to consciously practice gratitude every day, but certainly Thanksgiving is a reminder to us all. I recall driving up to Santa Barbara to meet some friends for the holiday one year and just scrolling through my cell phone and dialing people to say how grateful I was at that very [...]

This weekend was the third iteration of Community Next and it was focused on developing for platforms (in other words: how to make money off of Facebook). I’ve been tossing around some ideas myself and only needed to listen to one or two panels to determine following:

The “bubble” has decentralized. Instead of one big commotion [...]

Facebook Postulate: If it’s not in your Mini-Feed it never happened. Seriously, it’s like a tree falling in a forest. Your new friends and group membership don’t make a sound!

Everything is relative. I’ve been conducting an informal survey for a little while now: when I ask for ‘lots and lots of ketchup’ at the Chik-Fil-A drive-through I will receive either a) lots and lots of ketchup or b) three or four packets. The determining factor: how busy the Chik-Fil-A is. Something tells me if [...]

Keeping in touch isn’t easy sometimes. These days with hundreds of Facebook, MySpace, and Linkedin friends it can be overwhelming and even paralyzing to try and be a good friend to everyone. I’m sure we all have our close groups of friends: the ones we go out with, call occasionally, see on the weekends. But [...]