Six Things Silicon Valley Can Teach Social Entrepreneurs

by clairediazortiz | Nov 21, 2012 | social entrepreneurship, social good

I recently wrote a piece for Fast Company (and the new Skoll World Forum website) about the Six Things Silicon Valley Can Teach Social Entrepreneurs. If you’re a social entrepreneur, or you work in a fast-paced technology environment like Silicon Valley, these...

Five Reasons to Be a Morning Person

by clairediazortiz | Nov 18, 2012 | Business, Productivity

This weekend I was on a great run while listening to a new-ish episode of The Simple Mom Podcast. In the podcast, my friend Tsh interviewed Arianne of To Think is To Create, and at one point asked Arianne if she was a morning person or a night owl. Arianne’s...

Stop Complaining on Social Media (Social Media Pet Peeve #4)

by clairediazortiz | Nov 13, 2012 | Social Media

Here’s another social media pet peeve video installment, this time encouraging you to stop complaining on social media. Heck, I even argue that complaining in real life is actually better than complaining on social media. Got a problem? Go ahead and tweet it....

Social Media Pet Peeve #3: Sharing a Private Conversation in Public

by clairediazortiz | Oct 26, 2012 | Social Media

Here’s the third video in my Social Media Pet Peeves video series. Yes, it’s dark. And yes, I need to fix that. In this video, I talk about a niggling, nagging social media pet peeve I see on a near-daily basis: People who have private conversations in...

Why Smart People Prefer Twitter

by clairediazortiz | Oct 24, 2012 | Twitter

There’s been a lot written about the use of Twitter for writers, and for folks who think in words. As others have said before me, Twitter helps you distill your ideas, refine your thinking, and polish what you want to say into less. If you used to think in...