I was there last night

Summer 2008

theWarofArt

Are you a born writer? Were you put on earth to be a painter, a scientist, an apostle of peace? In the end the question can only be answered by action.

Do it or don’t do it.

It may help to think of it this way. If you were meant to cure cancer or write a symphony or crack cold fusion and you don’t do it, you not only hurt yourself, even destroy yourself. You hurt your children. You hurt me. You hurt the planet.

You shame the angels who watch over you and you spite the Almighty, who created you and only you with your unique gifts, for the sole purpose of nudging the human race one millimeter farther along its path back to God.

Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor. It’s a gift to the world and every being in it. Don’t cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you’ve got.

~ Steven Pressfield, p 165

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Street Art: Joshua Allen Harris

ReadWriteWeb is an established web industry publication / blog  and they just released premium reports for businesses.

I was asked to be an early reviewer and got quoted in the report and in their announcement. Very cool.

It’s hard not to get excited about this when I know how excited editor Marshall Kirkpatrick is about this launch!

And the reality is that there is so much interest in community-building for businesses that it’s the right time for this type of report to surface.

The first 75 pages are a collection of case studies and testimonials – and as Sameer Patel (Pretzel Logic) wrote in his blog post, one can struggle “with the idea of buying a premium report that was largely peppered with quotes from articles that I’ve read before…” but what Marshall has provided is an in-depth and intelligent collection of the most salient, relevant and helpful quotes – scoured from across the interwebs, and from those at the forefront of community management.

You can download a free sample section of the report here.