This is the  true joy in life , the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before y...

It was 11:00 at night and -5 fahrenheit. It was dark and cold and I was driving my 13 year old son home from a friends house when we saw a ...

This is an excellent summary of the book, The Innovator's Dilemma , by Clayton Christensen. I stumbled across it on https://gist.githu...

I'll be heading to the Middle East and then behind the iron curtain next week. If you happen to be in Dubai or Warsaw, be sure to sto...

The other night I was out throwing a football with my oldest son in the backyard.  We started talking about how life is not one big event, ...

I'm convinced that you can get to 75% of the world in just three stops. I just got back from Thailand where I was conducting some busin...

Here's my best tip for this year, month, week, hour AND minute: If you're feeling anxious and overwhelmed with everything that is...

I find that when I'm stumped by a problem at work, I need to read or see something that is completely random -- meaning it has nothing ...

I just stumbled across a decent article on how to compress video for Adobe Connect .  I've been doing it for years but never thought to...

I've been trying to figure out the best export settings for Final Cut Pro.  I've traditionally just exported as QuickTime, but I wa...

On a farm, when the chickens needed feeding, the pigs needed slopping or the cow got out of the barn, you took care of it.  That was you...

If you're like me, the feature list for the new iOS5 update went by too quickly -- I wanted to reread the iOS 5 Software Updates afte...

My wife is wise. One of her famous quotes is, "You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar." This is absolutely a corr...

I just finished reading this article on the coming Singularity . What? You haven't heard about this event predicted to occur in about 20...

I found this great post about how to import your Facebook contacts into Google+. The original post was found here . Thanks for the post An...

It seems sad that the Space Shuttles are ending. I remember when this started and how it affected my life -- I was just a kid watching it b...

I love this post by Seth Godin (by the way if you don't subscribe to his blog via RSS, you're really missing out!). You can find hi...

My goal setting bench in Cascais, Portugal. I'm a goal-setting kind of guy. If you don't believe me just ask my wife. Each year fo...

It's been a while since I've posted anything. I like to use the excuse that I've been traveling a lot, but that shouldn't b...

I was asked to go to India to speak at a conference this week. I really didn't want to go because: 1) India is really hard to get to (35...

Treion and Matt have been visiting Hong Kong to help organizations understand The Learning Explosion and embrace virtual classrooms. Hong Ko...

My friend's agency, StruckAxiom , created this amazing technology display for PepsiCo. PepsiCo Social Media Visualization from StruckAx...

Adobe asked if I would do a review of one of their software solutions, Adobe Connect. Here is the final video as posted on Adobe.com.

We got our kids an XBOX Kinect for Christmas. As I was playing it with my kids--waving my hands in the air to move things on the screen--I w...

OK. I've been AWOL for a while and haven't written on my blog for a couple of months. But I have been busy. A colleague (Treion Mul...

This is, by far, the most addicting game I've played in a long time. Dan Ball

My son Josh has been wiggling his loose tooth all day. He finally asked if he could have a little help to get it out. This is what we came ...

If you want to see some great landscape photography, check out Adam Barker's galleries online. It makes me want to quit my day job and ...

For a couple of years my team and I have been working on finding an effective way to move training classrooms online. We've always known...

I really liked this post by Seth Godin a few days ago ( http://sethgodin.typepad.com/ ). I think about my kids and what they're exposed ...

I'm pretty excited. Tomorrow my new Nikon lens arrives. I purchased a Nikon 18-200 VR. From everything I've heard, it's a great ...