What Job Title Would Make You Beam With Pride?

May 1, 2009 by Jonathan Fields · 5 Comments 

This week, I asked the following question on twitter:

As always, I’m fascinated by the range of answers (and the number of people who are both kind and bold enough to share them).

In this experiment, I was also struck by how many people found it to be an interesting enough question to pass on by “retweeting,” but did not share an answer of their own. I think it speaks to the desire to explore it, along with the challenge of answering the question in a genuine way.

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Silicon Valley’s Wilson, Sonsoni Takes Nod From Pickle Men and Info Marketers

April 27, 2009 by Jonathan Fields · 1 Comment 

I was cruising through some blogs on Friday, when this post from venture capitalist, author and entrepreneur, @GuyKawasaki, caught my eye:

Free Online Term Sheet Generator

If I didn’t see it with my own eyes, I wouldn’t believe it, but Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich, and Rosati (WSGR), one of Silicon Valley’s dominant law firms (as in Apple, HP, etc), has created a free, online term sheet generator. This is the site’s description of the tool:

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Would You Walk Away From Your Job for $100,000?

April 24, 2009 by Jonathan Fields · 19 Comments 

Earlier this week, I posed the following question on twitter…

Within seconds, answers came flooding in. You can find them all individually by just searching on twitter, but, I thought it’d be valuable to aggregate and a share a sampling of replies here on the blog, too, because it really shows the diversity of mindset that’s out there today.

And, amazingly, a full 45% said…no, they’d walk away from the money. I sometimes wonder what that says about people on twitter (or who follow me) versus, those in the “general population.”

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The Real Reason Companies are Terrified of Social Media

April 22, 2009 by Jonathan Fields · 24 Comments 

I was recently presenting at a conference in NYC, where the following question was asked…

What do you tell employers who are freaked out about their employees developing their own personal brand on social media, instead of the company’s?

Look, I get the tension.

As interactive platforms give employees the ability to build their own reputations and communities and demonstrate value outside the purview of their employers, companies are getting freaked about employees gaining too much “hand.”

Here’s my short answer to companies…GET OVER IT!

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Blog, Tweet and Eat Your Way to Success [audio]

April 3, 2009 by Jonathan Fields · Comments Off 

Last week, while in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, I had the opportunity to be interviewed by CreateBusinessGrowth.com‘s David Williams.

In addition to it being a lot of fun (we did it in a Panera’s restaurant, so it’s got that NPR people in the background feel), we covered a lot of ground about how solopreneurs, small businesses and Career Renegades can leverage social media to generate income, accelerate research and market an idea.

Click here to listen to/download the 30-minute audio now

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