Give In to Peer Pressure
If there is one thing every child learns in elementary school, it’s the dangers of peer pressure. I remember watching countless film strips (yes, film strips – complete with an accompanying audio recording on a cassette tape) on how kids on the playground were subversively trying to get me to smoke a cigarette. Like any…
Building Community as a Freelancer
Transitioning work relationships from colleague to community can be challenging in a traditional work environment. Relationships take time to mature and it can be a difficult process along the way, but freelancers have an additional hurdle to jump in the race towards a healthy professional community. Many of us are working independently (translation: alone in…
Community and Collaboration
Raise your hand if you’ve ever felt isolated as an entrepreneur! Heidi Oran shares a few reasons why finding community through collaboration is key.
Community Creates the Music of Our Life
Our sense of community has faded into the busyness of our lives. Finding the right tempo and notes will happen when create community and find common ground.
The Difference Between Colleagues and Community
Have you noticed? We’re trying something new on Thin Difference this month. We’ve chosen a theme. Our hope is that by publishing several different perspectives on a specified topic, we’ll facilitate discussion and achieve one of Thin Difference’s goals of enabling cross-generational communication and connection. Our first theme is community. When I sat down to…
Why Your Community Matters More than You Think
Your community matters. Finding common ground matters. Consider these questions when intentionally creating a community to make you better.
Make the Time: 4 Reasons to Attend Conferences
I tried to Google a statistic explaining approximately how many conferences happen annually in the U.S. and had absolutely no luck. While there was no clear answer to the question, what I did see was that there are more than I could have ever fathomed. Literally thousands of conferences happen across the U.S. annually, and…
Four Qualities That Help Build Community
We must build community. We must find common ground; we don’t just discover it. Scott Savage shares a few ideas to make the process easy for everyone.
Is Showing Up 60 percent of the Time Good Enough?
Is showing up 60 percent of the time enough? What impact to engagement happens when we don’t fully show up? The answers get to the heart of results.
5 People Every Writer Needs
Writing can be an isolating task. Writers are typically on our own when we research, write, edit, hate what we’ve written and rewrite it, re-edit, and submit for publication. It gets lonely. But like any other worthwhile endeavor, writing improves exponentially with a bit of collaboration. Having just finished my first book*, I’m intimately familiar…
Influence: Giving and Leading Across Generations
Last week, the research group Achieve, sponsored by the Case Foundation, released the 2015 Millennial Impact Report. This report is one in a series and always delivers essential insights about the emerging generosity of Millennials, the largest generation. Millennials, Statistics, and Giving Within the 2015 Millennial Impact Report, there are many statistics and information to…
What Young Professionals Don’t Understand About Social Media
Guest Post by Danny Rubin Millennials, America is officially ours. Pew Research Center reports Millennials will overtake baby boomers in 2015 as the largest living generation in the US. Bravo, everyone. We did it. Soon enough, everyone will bow to Generation Y. We make the rules! We call the shots! When Millennials have full control, I’m certain we…