I just published a review of Rich Millington's latest book, The Indispensable Community, on LinkedIn. Go check it out and share your thoughts. I highly recommend the book to all online community professionals.
Lessons Learned from Pruning Online Community Groups
I just published an article on LinkedIn with 10 lessons learned from my recent major cleanup of the groups on our enterprise social network at Humana. Perhaps other online community managers and professionals can benefit from these takeaways that I jotted down while removing about 43% of our internal community's nearly 1,700 groups.
To Retire Or Not To Retire?
26 days ago my company offered an early retirement incentive to those of us who qualify based on age and years of service. Last night at midnight was the deadline to apply for it. I didn't apply. I thought about it - a LOT. I weighed the pros and cons and sometimes felt like a …
Bricks and Community
We have a lot of exposed brick inside our home. It's one of the things that attracted us to the place originally. I've been looking closely at all the brick and pondering it in recent days. No two bricks are the same. Many look very different. Some have weathered 117 years of use better than …
Thoughts On Turning 60
Saturday, January 28, 2017 is my 60th birthday. For months I've just shaken my head in disbelief at the thought of it. It doesn't seem right. It doesn't seem possible. Maybe it should just be another date on the calendar, but it isn't. Like I jokingly said to my bride of 37 years recently (who …
