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The New New 9rules: Ali 2 Launches

POSTED Tue Oct.09.2007 by Dave Seah UNDER Blogging TAGGED

One of the best days of my life, though I didn’t fully appreciate it until months later, was when this website was accepted into the 9rules Network. What was exciting to me then was that I had found an online oasis of people who believed in creating original quality content. What was even more remarkable [...]

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Kickstarting a Freelancer/Collaboration Network

POSTED Wed Sep.12.2007 by Dave Seah UNDER Freelancing TAGGED

I’ve been putting this off for months, putting out a call for people who do awesome work, so they can meet other people who value the same. “I’m too busy to design the right program,” I hemmed. “It needs to be just right, with a nice website,” I hawed. Well, waiting is for chumps! I [...]

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Blog Action Day is October 15

POSTED Tue Sep.11.2007 by Dave Seah UNDER Blogging TAGGED

I got a nice email from Leo over at Zen Habits telling me about Blog Action Day, which is coming up this October 15th. The idea is that bloggers can collectively converse on a topic of global relevance. You know, the power of the blogosphere, much mocked by the so-called Old Media, but reaching a [...]

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Those Other People

POSTED Tue Aug.14.2007 by Dave Seah UNDER Personal TAGGED ,

The other day I was chatting with a good friend via instant message, mentioning some information I’d read about the United Nations Development Programme. The UNDP has the following mission statement (slightly paraphrased by myself): “[...] an organization advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better [...]

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Trust as Currency

POSTED Tue Jul.24.2007 by Dave Seah UNDER Encounters TAGGED

I had an interesting email conversation with Steven Smith of HD BizBlog regarding the nature of trust in today’s business world, after he pointed me to guest article on Slacker Manager he’d written. His premise is that trust is the “new currency” of business, which immediately triggered the following comment from me (I apologize for [...]

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Printable CEO Wiki and Forum

POSTED Thu Jun.07.2007 by Dave Seah UNDER Productivity TAGGED

After setting up Expression Engine for the Guild website (still a work in progress), I’ve come to like the Wiki and Forums modules enough that I’m transitioning all my other work to it. The guild was intended to be a business networking activity in the first place, so consolidating other community content to the same [...]

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Some Thoughts on Recruiting

POSTED Mon May.28.2007 by Dave Seah UNDER Freelancing TAGGED

UPDATE: All future WoW-related posts will be directed to guild.davidseah.com. As I mentioned a few days ago, I’ve been recruiting players for a World of Warcraft Guild, ostensibly as a business networking experiment. This is not a new idea, of course, but I’m still astonished at how well this might actually work. As I mulled [...]

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