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The Community Rant

February 27, 2010

My friend Ryan Stephens wrote a follow up post (which I recommend you to read) to my post “How to Build a Community of Drones”. The post sparked a great discussion, and at one point it got me ranting.
I wanted to share that rant with the readers of OwlSparks:
From day one I knew what would [...]

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Writing Vs. Communicating

February 18, 2010

Today I guest post Raven Moore’s blog, The Writerbabe Series.
You can subscribe to Raven’s blog here. Follow Raven on Twitter here.
Raven is one of my favorite debaters, and writing for her was very refreshing. Writing about writing is always a delight, and for that I thank you, my friend.
Do read my guest post “Writing vs. [...]

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How To Build a Community Of Drones

February 15, 2010

These are the quick and easy steps to build a community of drones:

Make friends.
Promote them so they will promote you.
Screw them over/ ignore them/ use them/drop them while becoming friends with their friends.
Repeat as needed.

In no time, you’ll be praised for your community building skills thanks to those drone followers that are too blind to [...]

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Self-Promoting Loser

January 28, 2010

I’m a fan of criticizing our society and everything I think is wrong with it.
But I’m also a diehard realist, and always consider if what I’m suggesting is possible.
This either creates hope of change, or a harsh realization of inevitability.
That’s the crossroad I’m at regarding self-promotion.
I don’t like self-promotion. I can’t say I don’t do [...]

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Happy Sparks!

December 25, 2009

As you’ll see on the video, my English is not that good when I have to actually speak it.
I wanted to thank all the readers of this humble blog, every spark is a blast thanks to the amazing debate and criticism. Again, thank you.
Random goals for 2010:
1) Move to Perth, Australia in June. Contact me [...]

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To Hell With Personal Branding: Part 2

December 17, 2009

Thoughts of the reactions after the post “To Hell With Personal Branding.”

Most people agreed with it. The ones that didn’t were, interestingly enough, personal branders or people who make money with personal branding in some way. Makes sense: if  my product was a rip off and someone would called me on it, I would defend [...]

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To Hell With Personal Branding

December 3, 2009

Hey, Personal Branding, I have something to tell you:
I don’t care.
I just don’t care anymore. You have prevented me from having fun for the last time.
I bought my URL domain and secured a couple of social media profiles. Your job is done, I’m moving on now.
Because really, all that you’ve ever really taught us is [...]

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