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Help me celebrate my 1000th post

Hey folks – I’m on the homestretch to 1000 posts. This is officially #985.

I’m still looking for ideas for what to do to celebrate, or reward all you people for reading for so long :)

Please let me know if you have ideas for what to do.

If you’d like to simply suggest something for me to write about, go here.

Countdown to 1000 posts

This post, according to Wordpress, is #952. I have about 50 more to go to hit the 1000 mark.

Since my posts tend towards new material, rather than just a link and a sentence, this is a shitload of words.

I’m grateful to all the folks who subscribe, read, forward, comment and even snark here, as this blog has been a critical part of my successful independent life so far.

I’d like to do something fun here when I hit post #1000. Open to suggestions – leave ‘em in the comments. Thanks.

Need a graphic designer for small project

I have a big, chart heavy report on research I did into how people prepare to give presentations. Problem is the charts are auto-generated and ugly. I mean hit by every ugly stick imaginable ugly.

I need a designer to grab the jpegs of the charts and basically de-uglify them. Given my lame Photoshop skills, it would take me a few hours to do, but an experienced designer could probably do it in half an hour.

I’m happy to pay $100 for someone to do it.

You’ll also get nice exposure here on the site when I post the report.

And I have small design projects like this for the site from time to time.

If you’re interested, do this:

  • I need to see your portfolio. So have a link to it.
  • I need this done by 1/26.
  • There are about 1o or 12 simple bar charts. That’s it.
  • Send me email with 1) a link to your portfolio, and 2) your favorite flavor of ice-cream  – info at scottberkun.com
  • By Scott Berkun on January 12th, 2010
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  • reader's choice

What should I write about next? Place your vote!

I’m really digging this system of having you folks submit and vote on topics.

My rough plan is I’ll pick the top voted topic every Wednesday, so it’s not too late to help select this week’s topic.

Head over here to vote or submit something.

  • By Scott Berkun on December 29th, 2009
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  • On writing

What should I write about? You decide!

If you haven’t noticed, I’ve been writing about a wider and wider range of things. This is no accident. My ambitions with books and the blog are wide. I’ll always be writing about pm, design and innovation things, but will always be writing about wider things too.

But I’ve failed to involve you guys in the process as much as I’d like, which I’m fixing now.

I put together a list of old requests from blog comments and emails, and found a little tool called slinkset that lets anyone vote, and submit new topics.

My promise: I’ll grab a topic every week and write about it. Anything goes. Whatever, and I mean whatever, makes it to the top of the list, I’ll write about on the blog.

Here’s what to do:

  1. View and vote on the list here (click on the up arrow to vote)
  2. or add your own topics.

It’s that easy. No registration required.

If you guys use it, I’ll find a way to integrate something like this into scottberkun.com (perhaps there’s a Wordpress plugin that approximates slinkset).

Give it a spin – let me know what you think.

I need your help: important

There is something important I don’t say very often.

I need you.

Yes you. Not the guy in the cubicle behind you, but you.

What I rarely talk about is I’m on my own – I’m flying solo in most of my work – and the only thing that keeps all this going are the comments, links, tweets, recommendations all of you guys do on my behalf to spread the word about my work.

Since I’m several light years away from being a household name, and no billionaire benefactor has come forth yet to bankroll what I do, whatever fame I have comes from people who like my work. And unless you wandered here looking for Shmott Shermkun or Fott Ferkun, that’s you.

If you’re so inspired, here’s how you can help me and my career:

  • Buy some of my books if you’ve only read the blog
  • Write an amazon.com review of my books you enjoyed (Myths / MTH)
  • Email / tweet / Facebook my blog posts to others (Use ‘ Share’ button at bottom of posts) – Comments are great too so I know I did well, or not.
  • Recommend my books, and this blog, to coworkers & friends, especially that they subscribe via RSS
  • Help get the word out about the new book, and the sample chapter / video on amazon.

I’m grateful to all of you who have done this stuff in the past. Every little mention makes a difference.

I’m six years into this adventure now thanks to your support. And with the new book coming soon it’s a key moment in my career – over the next few weeks the more attention I can get for the site, the more I can help the book, and if the new book does well my life goal to write until I die is increasingly possible.

Just wanted to let you know I depend on you and appreciate the help, and if you’re not sure if it matters, I can tell you for sure that it does.

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