Brad Rourke

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  • Do We Really Want That Feedback?

    I have worked in a lot of different kinds of offices in my career, and I’ve been a cubicle drone as well as a manager. I’ve hired and fired, and received my fair share of reviews. Today I’m going to talk about feedback — getting it and giving it. There is a great deal of…

  • Review Of Livescribe Smart Pen: Good For Leaders And Professionals On The Go

    My latest piece is posted at Public Square Today, my blog at Washington Times Communities: Review Of Livescribe Smartpen Livescribe Smartpen For Christmas this year, some family members fulfilled a long-standing desire I’d had and got me a Livescribe Smart Pen. I’ve been using it for a couple of weeks now, and I think this product is…

  • How I Use Different Social Media Services

    A number of people have asked me lately to help them “figure out” social media. One problem with that is that there is no one-size-fits-all answer. Social media is really a dynamic ecosystem that contains many, many disparate parts. Some are interconnected and others are more standalone. The key, I think, is to figure out…

  • Guest Post at Washington Times Communities By Andrea Jarrell: What Makes Hefty Tuitions Worth It? ROI Is Not Materialism

    In my blog at the Washington Times Communities, Public Square Today, I am running a guest post by Andrea Jarrell, a higher education consultant who blogs at School of Thought. I thought her take on “ROI” as it relates to higher education was a must-read: What Makes Hefty Tuitions Worth It? ROI Is Not Materialism (Guest…

  • My Top Three Areas For Growth For 2010

    I don’t always go in for New Year’s Resolutions. Too often they have felt like empty promises to turn over some new leaf. This year, instead of resolutions I have decided to think about the kind of person I want to be. When I look back on 2010, where would I like to be able…

  • Where Did I Fail? Tough Questions For Year-End Reflection

    I know it’s just another arbitrary day, but I like to begin the new year looking forward. That usually means I spend the waning days of December reviewing things. My tendency is often to gloss over problems and let myself off the hook more than I should, so I like to carve out some time…

  • Reviewing How I'm Doing With Twitter

    I was just reviewing things as 2009 draws to a close. One thing I was curious about was my Twitter usage. Like many of my friends, 2009 marked a year of significant ramp-up with all forms of social media and especially Twitter, which I first started using in March 2007. So, how do things stack…

  • 11 Things To Help You On Twitter

    I have been working on some simple tools for nonprofits and other organizations to use to get set up with social media. (You’ll see more on that later.) As I do that, I’ve been making lists — checklists, resource lists, and more. Some of those seem like they might be useful to share on their…

  • We Should Share More In Our e-Newsletters

    As many of my readers know, each week I have an email newsletter that I use to update folks about my latest posts. (You can to sign up at this form.) But today it struck me that, while many of us are very active in social media, our newsletters are often not very social at all.…