May 2010
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friedeggs to replace my tumblr account
I like tumblr though because of time limitations am challenged to blog on tumblr and on friedeggs.
From here on out, Im going to use friedeggs.com.
To read any updates from friedeggs, you can follow me on twitter or facebook and my posts will show up there too.
To follow on friedeggs, go to http://friedeggs.com/tonyberkman
January 2010
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Have you moved on yet? Haiti hasn't.
Most of us living in suburbia, or in big cities, taking kids to school, going to work, probably have moved on, past the brief moment when we thought we should feel bad.
So convenient. Put it out of our minds. Why care? We watch tv or read a web page in a dumbed down state. Why feel? So much pain in our own lives? Really?
We fail to let in real real horror and suffering. For...
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Are you an ostrich? A good story teller?
It’s so easy for so many to dismiss and justify why we shouldn’t or can’t help when a tragic event takes place in areas of the world or even in neighborhoods that aren’t “our own”.
What goes through our heads to do this? Our ability to justify is miraculous - on some weird level. If there is one thing we are all experts at its the ability to justify why...
November 2009
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June 2009
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Bloggers Unite to Free Iran
According to the Economist English bloggers, and not twitter, provided the most comprehensive and and useful information about the post election Iran protests - as bloggers pulled out useful information from the mass of information whereas Twitter “swiftly degraded into pointlessness”.
On June 29th Bloggers from around the globe will be using their blogs to share, opinions,...
November 2008
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Will You Blog About Refugees on Monday, November...
Will you please join Bloggers Unite in discussing the issue of refugees on Monday, November 10? We invite you to join us as we make thousands of blog readers more aware of the pressing problem of international refugees this coming Monday.
The ongoing problem of people torn from their homes is something that should, and must, concern us all, in order to find a common solution and bring back...
September 2008
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Don't let perfect get in the way of possible.
How would your life change if you didn’t worry about being perfect?
May 2008
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IT DOES MATTER, YOUR VOICE MATTERS
On May 15th bloggers from around the world, will be uniting around one issue, to fight for human rights.
By all indications, including the fact that Amnesty International is co-sponsoring the event with BlogCatalog, May 15th should be the largest gathering of bloggers to unite about a social cause in the history of the blogosphere.
Yet despite this potential, I get a feeling that there are...
March 2008
7 posts
Long live Google! Maybe not?
BlogCatalog launched its Social Search today. The search results, from Social Search, provide a fascinating view into the online social network activities of close to 100,000 bloggers. While doing a search on Wikipedia, after the launch, I came across the entry for Social Search Engine. The entry describes a Social Search Engine, in part, as:
“… a type of search engine that...
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship requires creativity, ideas and the willingness to embrace the unknown.
For every entrepreneur a seed was planted. A moment of inspiration occurred where the entrepreneur was possessed by the idea and could not escape its seduction. When this happens the entrepreneur doesn’t possess the idea. The idea is the possessor, causing the entrepreneur to think of nothing...
Goals...
We all have them whether we know it or not. I have gone though periods where my goals were laser focused and other times when I drifted around. Today, I’m drifting in Mexico, reminiscing about this past year and the crazy ride the blogcatalog team has been on.
A year ago, when we purchased blogcatalog, it was a down-and-out directory of blogs. There was no social network and the...
What the ph... does it mean?
My first real job out of college was as a financial analyst at an international bank. I remember thinking, I understand how business and finance works, it’s pretty much based in common sense, however why does everyone use such complex terms to describe basic business concepts.
It’s 22 years later, I somehow found myself, like the rest of you, immersed in the world of...
Your Own Personal Recommendation Assistant
Social search is in. Traditional search is out. Social search is about recommendations and trusted people. Traditional search is about algorithms and PhDs.
While almost 100% of my search used to be done first on AltaVista, then AOL and then Google, over the past year this % has shrunk to perhaps 20%. Most of what I am looking for today comes from my blogcatalog friends, posts on their...
Too much cash can kick your business butt...
Too much cash in a business for an undisciplined operator leads to management by throwing crap at the wall and seeing what sticks.
For the entreprenuer there are few things in business that provide guidance and discipline as much as operating out of operating cash flows.
Aside from the experience and pain associated with blowing through cash in a business and seeing that it doesnt...
Sweet
Tumblr rocks!
This is how blogging was meant to be. So easy and sweet.
Finally, I have a blog to list on BlogCatalog