I sat in a folding chair in a high-ceilinged room in an old building in Cambridge, Massachusetts. When I signed up for my first improvisation theater class (many years ago), I didn’t know what to expect. As I waited for the “leader” to arrive I felt more than a little apprehensive. The room was spare,…
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100 Things You Should Know About People: #15 — If You Use Social Media Without Laughter You Aren’t Being Social
If you engage in social media are you being social? You email, you text, you twitter, you leave voicemails for people, so you are plugged in, right? Well, actually not. In all of these means of communication you are not actually physically interacting with another person. True social bonding requires a physical reaction to the…
100 Things You Should Know About People: #13 — Want To Change a Habit? Use Fun, Surprise, and a Crowd
Have a habit that you want to change? Or maybe you are trying to change the behavior of people at work? Or you want to change the behavior of people coming to your blog or website? If you read any of the research on habits you will find that habits are hard to change. (I’ll…
The Secret Ingredient to Web Site Loyalty
Here’s the Answer: I’ll state right up front — The Secret Ingredient is …. FUN! The Scenario: Recently I was researching a trip for my son. He’s in Cairo for a semester abroad, but rather than coming straight home from there for the Christmas holidays, he’s decided he wants to go to London for two…