Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Cath Duncan from Agile Living and The Bottom-line Bookclub.

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“There are no original ideas. There are only original people.” – Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

How many tabbed windows do you have open right now? Can you remember what all those tabbed windows are about?

Digital Natives Are Beginning to Resist Digital Nature:

Social Media is really all about this: integrating life and technology.
Facebook is the most widely used, widely known, and perhaps widely trusted social network in the world. As someone who got on...

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We Have a Strategic Plan; It’s Called Doing Things

See also:

• The Cult of Done
• Ze Frank on Perfection
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Good morning all. I've been swamped here and I should be writing instead of posting, but I needed a mental break, so it goes. It's a quickie, which assuages my guilt somewhat.

Construction zones, painter’s studios, and your kitchen during a remodeling.  It is hard to create something cool without making a mess in the process.  The bigger the creation, the bigger the mess.

Your parents were probably the first people ever to tell you to try.
While you were laying down flat on the floor, content with crawling around on a pair of arms and knees, your parents were the ones who coaxed you to walk. For a time, you just stared at them like a deer in the [...]

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I've been populating content into a separate blogging project for a while, and it's high time to release it into the wild: Dear Dr.

With so many non-profits and NGO’s, not to mention all the state and federal agencies vying for a piece of the continually shrinking resource

Your creative mind is the most valuable thing in the world right now. Do you know why?
At our very core, everyone is born to create. From the yawns we produce in the morning to the final sleeping positions we hunch ourselves into as we crawl back into bed at night, we exist as makers.
With our [...]

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The always-insightful George "Geo" Tannenbaum at Ad Aged is constructing a list titled "99 lies. A work in progress." The count was up to 43 as of a moment ago, but he's continuing to add if you want to give a shot at mocking ad agency/creative world prevarication.

Alternatively titled I love the Internets or I just wanted To Share

I have several half written blog posts that *one day* will make here for your reading pleasure, but today I’m just going to share a few posts that  resonated with me in a very special way. So without further ado.

Blogs that made my day.

It's always a good idea to listen to others talk about their craft. Even if you're already successful it can help you learn about new ways to approach things or maybe even inspire you.

You read that right. I’m not talking about crowdsourcing, but crowdsurfing.
At SXSW Interactive 2010, I attended fantastic panels and solo presentations by people behind the brands, behind the...

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A month or so ago, I reconnected with one of my first blog homies, Holly Hoffman, who has been doing BIG THANGS for herself lately.

We tweeting briefly and she asked me what’s been going on in my life lately. And I replied like a smart aleck,“I’m full of angst as usual. Trudging upstream. Surrounded by mediocrity”

Backronym is one of those neat words that means exactly what it says: Taking an existing word and retrofitting words to make an acronym from it. (It also happens to be an example of one of my other favorite word/concepts, a portmanteau: two words blended to make a new one with a meaning that combines the two.