Giving 100% is Not Enough: A Video Post
by Joe on May 18, 2009
Four weeks ago my wife and I spent a week in London and Paris seeing the sites and enjoying an awesome vacation. There is nothing better than a Seine river dinner cruise!
But wait there might be! The first ever JoeBuddeJr.com video post! But wait! Just like shamwow, THERE IS MORE!
You’ve gotta be kidding, you are saying? Nope, no jokes from me today.
So what is the more? Well, the first ever video post is my first take ever, and its all the way from the Champs de Elysee in Paris! Where you ask? Well right here a gentlemen was selling his skill. He would free hand cut out a profile picture of a person. Sure he could spend 10 minutes drawing it out and then cutting it, but when he can free hand it, it’s amazing. Why is that a big deal? Because this guy’s effort could have been to just to finish a neat cut out profile in 30 minutes time, but he took it one step further and left us in awe by doing it in two.
Check it out:
Rebecca happened to be a bit late with her video blog advice so the video is not great by her standards (or mine), but its fun none the less.
What do you think of this artist and his skills? and… What do you think of the video post? Do you think video blogging is my new blogging identity?
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How to Improve your Office Birthday Party
by Joe on May 12, 2009
We could all go out and follow some generic advice (generic = terrible) about how to throw a birthday party for a co-worker. Or we could break every etiquette rule about how to buy a gift for a co-worker. But I am not into that.
I want to help you make the most of your office birthday party, because if yours are like mine have been, they really need some work. And for something that happens at least once a month like in my office, its just too often to ignore.
How Do I fix an Office Birthday Party Fiasco?
- It’s only awkward if you make it awkward: If you are in a situation, or approach one thinking it will be awkward then it will be. Its time to change your attitude.
- In lieu of standing around waiting for someone to be the first one to go pick a cookie or a piece of cake off the table, pick up the cookies/cake and pass them out. It’ll help change everyone else’s attitude since I have changed mine after step number one!
- Have an action plan for the dreaded song: I look at people in the eyes when singing happy birthday – even if I’m the birthday boy. It lets everyone know that I am appreciative of their less than stellar vocal abilities.
So those are a few things I do to end the terribleness that is an office birthday party. If you are still a debbie downer on office birthdays I suggest that you celebrate all your office birthdays on one day a year. Think about it. Way less calories, and way less of the awkward effort you put towards choosing what to do while people sing happy birthday to you.
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An Article That Isn’t About Social Media
by Joe on May 8, 2009
Boy am I glad I am no longer writing about social media.
Plus, I am even more glad that what I want to write about today is not about “social media” per se. Its about how reputation risk management is on the rise. My friend matt sent it along with this note: “For your blog that is no longer about social media.”
Perfect.
So everyone out there needs to know the stats from the article:
More than 82% of major companies are making a substantial effort to manage reputation risk, and 81% have increased their efforts over the past three years, according to a survey of 148 risk management executives at U.S. and European corporations.
Though social media are gaining influence among consumers and investors evaluating companies, only 34% of the executives surveyed said they regularly monitor social networking sites for information about their companies, and only 10% participate in them.
All of the social media topics I spoke on until my fall out with the subject are important places to manage reputation risk, so we all better be engaging that because we all have to take care of our personal brands using online tools… right?
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An Unconventional Path to Blog Identity: Nonconformity
by Joe on April 30, 2009
After I first started struggling through my blog identity crisis an old coworker of mine @robpederson, sent me a tweet:
“@joebuddejr This might help with your blog identity crisis http://tinyurl.com/d8p8s3“
Obviously, I’ll try anything to figure out this blogging identity crisis…
After arriving at the link the title of the site caught my eye, “The Art of Nonconformity: Unconventional Strategies for Life, Work and Travel” a blog written by Chris Guillebeau.
In his manifesto, a very well crafted e-book, Chris explains how you can change your life to become a full time blogger. He says we will learn the following things:
- How I Became a Full-Time Writer in 279 Days
- The Complete Revenue Estimate for my Personal Site in 2009
- The World Domination Strategy for Establishing Your Brand
- Avoiding the Vampires who Want You to Fail
- Why Adsense (and most other Web Advertising) Sucks
- How to Stay Off the Digg Home Page and Still Get All the Traffic You Need
Now, sure some of these topics apply to my blog, but at this point, I am not a full time blogger – shocking I know. Anyways, the valuable thing in this book is to understand the questions he asked himself to write this. So reading it, I have been asking myself, what questions has he asked to get the results he desired.
The power of introspection is at work. I sure hope I can find my blog’s identity through this e-book!
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Can ChaCha Find my Blog’s Identity?
by Joe on April 21, 2009
A couple weekends ago I was able to hang out with my whole family to celebrate my moms birthday! We were all sitting around chatting and mentioned my blog’s identity crisis and wondered what my deal was. My sister hannah who just bounced back from a blogging break, decided we should ask ChaCha if it knew my blog’s identity. I thought that was a great idea, text a question to ChaCha and get a reponse. You’d think there wouldn’t be a more appropriate way to find my blogs identity. And so, we set off to see if ChaCha knows whats up.
The Test
To start we thought we should compare ChaCha’s responses by asking ChaCha who my siblings were.
Who is “my brother’s name”? ChaCha replied: “He is from the class of 2006 at Dublin Coffman High School. He is 6’4″ 180 lb. and played forward in basketball. ChaCha!” Nice work ChaCha right on. He might be bigger now tho, he is starting to scare me.
Who is “my sister’s name”? ChaCha again on the money replied: “is a professor for Teach for America. Before that he Was a researcher for The Ohio state University. Keep on Chaing” Again, ChaCha is right on – she did some awesome reserach at OSU.
So ChaCha knew my siblings, so I thought this was going to be the end of my blog’s idenity crisis because ChaCha would tell me!
The Moment of Truth
We asked ChaCha – “Who is Joe Budde Jr.?” Frankly, I thought they would have just copy pasted from my about page. But did ChaCha?
ChaCha responded with: “No results were found for Joe Budde Jr. in the United States. Can we look up another person for you? ChaCha!”
Blog idenity crisis status: Blog Identity – Still Lost.
I feel like I am running around asking, Are you my mother?
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