Brogan Battles Backnoise - and wins!

You may have heard of the backchannel when one is speaking, but have you heard of BackNoise?  If not, it's time you do.  As blog post reader Paul Freet stated:  "Backnoise is like the hammer in the 1984 Apple commercial."

Paul hit the nail on the head.  BackNoise is the hammer being thrown into the theater of public speaking.

In my blog post "Speakers - Be Aware, Twitter is Coming," I affirmed that in any conference, event or speech setting where the speaker has a point-of-view and a message to deliver, the speaker is responsible for the experience. 

Backnoise is appearing on lots of sites lately; seems like something to at least be aware of. Follow the link for the whole post...

No Locks No Gates

September 21, 2009 ·

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The most powerful changes of my last few years came from one realization: there are no locks, no gates. In doing all that I’ve accomplished, it’s come from the repeated situation of doing something I wanted to try, making lots of mistakes, fixing the mistakes, and suddenly being at the core of something really useful. I started blogging in 1998 when it was called journaling. I started PodCamp with Christopher S. Penn because we wanted a different kind of event where we explored the disruption of new media. I started New Marketing Labs because I wanted to create a different kind of new marketing agency.

I never once asked for permission. I never once worried that someone else had done it or that someone had done it differently. Most times, it never dawned on me to think about those things.

No one told Richard Branson he couldn’t reinvent air travel, or space travel, or record stores, or dozens of other business categories. No one ever told Jeff Pulver he couldn’t rethink how we communicate via voice. And when people do choose to tell you that something can’t be done, or that you’ll never succeed, don’t listen. Everything worth doing seems impossible. To other people. To you? It’s what comes next.

Rethink everything. Do it all the time. Tom Peters taught me that (with Re-Imagine!).

If you don’t reimagine, if you don’t reinvent, if you don’t start something because you know it’ll work, where will you be? When will you do it?

There are no locks, no gates. Now what?

BALTIMORE -- Honest to God, I hope the Cleveland Browns have quit on their coach. I hope they've quit on that smarmy little know-it-all, Eric Mangini, because the alternative is even uglier. Judging from their hopeless 34-3 loss Sunday to Baltimore, a game in which the Browns couldn't run, throw, block or tackle, the Browns have either quit on Mangini -- or they're simply the worst team in the NFL.

I had my doubts about Mangini when they hired him. Looks like it's getting really fashionable to make him the scapegoat, though I just saw a petition (with more than 1000 signatures) asking the owner to sell the team.

Is it too late to give the Browns’ name, its colors, and history back to Baltimore?

When Art Modell sold the city of Cleveland down the river and moved the Browns to Baltimore, Clevelanders clamoured to keep the Browns’ name and create a new Browns out of…well, what would become a bunch of misfits led by poor schlep Chris Palmer in 1999.

After Sunday’s 34-3 humiliating annihilation at the hands of the former Browns, it is time to consider the 2009 Browns the latest group of misfits, and call the total new Browns a failed experiment.

But where to go from here?

Another trenchant view. I particularly like the quote in the sidebar, “Until further notice, the Cleveland Browns have become the franchise where quarterbacks go to see their careers die.”