Edith Yeung

When you are doing the work you are mean to do, it feel right. And everyday is a bonus regardless you are getting paid.

Watch this amazing speech by Oprah at Stanford Commencement Address. Love it…

It’s Friday! Watch this video and LOL.

140 characters messages are way too long.

I have no idea what they are saying. But this is a COOL commercial.

Kinda like the Mendelssohn’s piano music I used to play ‘Song without Word’. You don’t need to know lyric to understand what they are saying.

A friend ask me over email “3 tips for using Meetup.com to generate buzz for events”…

Since no one has ever asked me before… I decided to put it on my blog so I would remember.

1) Be Relevant
Why would people want to attend your meetup?
Why would people ever want to spend two precious hours of their time with you?
Give them the benefits. Give them a reason that matters. Give them something relevant that they feel it’s worth while.  At the end of the day, if you want people to come to your meetup. Think from their point of view and give what they want and hungry for.

If you are running a classical music lover group, may be “An intimate evening with Yo Yo Ma”?
If you are running a cooking group, may be “5 Cooking Tips from Thomas Keller?”?

2) Be Unique
What make you different from everybody else? May be the people, the benefits, the vibe, the meeting spots, the whatever, however, or the whoever.
Whatever it is… It got to be something that worth talking about.  And something that YOU can truly stand by.

Your meetups are like one of those many magazines on the rank. Think about the one that you would pick up. That’s the one you want your meetup to be.

3) Be Real

I tried to copy other gurus and their marketing styles before. Trust me. I tried. And it was a disaster and it did not work.
Not because the tactics weren’t good. It just wasn’t real and I couldn’t stand by it. When you are not being you, people could smell it and sense it. Meetup is about people, face to face. People know when your tone changes. People know when you sound different. Just be yourself and you will be a lot happier being an organizer.

Anyway… being a meetup organizer is not easy.

Being a successful one is definitely hard work.

Being a successful and happy organizer is even harder!

At the end of the day, don’t try to be everything for everyone. Create your own rule and own niche. Do your best to serve and give your people (whoever they are) your best (your standard, not theirs). That’s what meetup is all about.

Your pal. Your people. Not all people, but your kind of people who really gets you.

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Been hearing everyone trying to explain what Twitter is.  Why don’t everyone just watch this video?

The bottom line is… as much as you think it’s crazy that people tweet about what they eat, watch, drink or think wherever and whenever.

Deep down…when you see someone follow you. You feel like somebody care.

When someone cares, you tweet.

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Michael Altshuler once said: “The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.”

So… have you figured out where you are going yet?

Photo by serhio

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It’s way cool and it happened today! I watched the Inauguration with CNN live and Facebook and I love it!

Here is where you would find out real time:

• Guy’s son got dressed up to watch Obama
• The crowd is chanting Obama, Obama, Obama
• Carlos is holding back his tears while watching
• Mary is singing while watching
• Jimmy’s daughter interviewed Jimmy Carter on Obama

It’s this cool or what?

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Is our world really too small?

Our time really too short?

Our wisdom too limited?

Watch Bill Clinton explain this magical word: Ubuntu.

I am because you are.

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When your products or services are not in perfect shape…

May be you can … Acknowledge it. Make fun of it. Or even highlight it?

Here is an example …

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I love this article Ten things Google has found to be true and found it quite inspiring.

1. Focus on the user and all else will follow
Always placing the interests of the user first.

2. It’s best to do one thing really, really well.

3. Fast is better than slow.
Google believes in instant gratification. You want answers and you want them right now. Who are we to argue?

4. Democracy on the web works.

5. You don’t need to be at your desk to need an answer.

6. You can make money without doing evil.
Our users trust Google’s objectivity and no short-term gain could ever justify breaching that trust.

7. There’s always more information out there.

8. The need for information crosses all borders.

9. You can be serious without a suit.
Give the proper tools to a group of people who like to make a difference, and they will.

10. Great just isn’t good enough.
Does not accept being the best as an endpoint, but a starting point

Photo from Martin Lawrence Gallery Robert Deyber’s Bag of Tricks.

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