I still have my autographed copy of Guy Kawasaki's book, The Macintosh Way, from the early '90s. Back then, I was volunteering 20 hours a week as the president of the local Macintosh users group, the Boulder Mac Maniacs, and Guy was a demigod walking amongst us. We adored him.

I'm glad to see Guy is still out there evangelizing, although now it's more for LinkedIn and the whole Entrepreneur 3.0 phenomena. He doesn't cite his sources, but here are some significant-sounding statistics he quotes on LinkedIn...

"The average number of LinkedIn connections for people who work at Google is forty-seven."

"The average number for Harvard Business School grads is fifty-eight, so you could skip the MBA, work at Google, and probably get most of the connections you need. Later, you can hire Harvard MBAs to prepare your income taxes."

"People with more than twenty connections are thirty-four times more likely to be approached with a job opportunity than people with less than five."

"All 500 of the Fortune 500 are represented in LinkedIn. In fact, 499 of them are represented by director-level and above employees..."

These stats are just the preface to Guy's blog article on Ten Ways to Use LinkedIn. Enjoy. Read More...

 
I recently discovered "Palm Court" (or "Tea Dance") music while listening to The Green Lounge channel on Live365.com. Delightful! I imagined hearing this music drift across the summer lawns of Boulder's Chautauqua park, that grand old monument to adult education in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. (Theodore Roosevelt is quoted as saying that Chautauqua is "the most American thing in America.")

Wikipedia defines the Palm Court/Tea Dance style as "...a staple of genteel society, [offering] a live orchestra playing light classical music..."

If you're a musical antiquarian, as I am, you may love this era. It's pre-jazz and post-Gilbert & Sullivan. For starters, I recommend anything by The Palm Court Theatre Orchestra... prepare to regress to a much simpler time. Read More...