Recently, I have stepped up my reading & podcast listening. If you have been following the Grizzard blog, you may have noticed this. Below is a list of blogs and podcasts I subscribe to and read frequently. New suggestions are very, very welcome and appreciated. Blogs:

• Beth's Blog - I only just started reading Beth Kanter's blog, so I can't say yet if I like it or not, but I (probably like you) have heard her name a ton, and many of the books that I've read recently have actually cited her.
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If you're on Twitter, you no doubt find yourself sometimes saying, "How do people like Guy Kawasaki, Chris Brogan, and the rest of those big guys tweet so much about so many different things?" [NOTE: I'm not claiming that any of these folks actually use these, but I do know some bigtime twitterati who do.] Here's how: 1. They use tools like Twitterfeed to broadcast their blog posts. 2. They use tweet… Read More

It almost seems silly to start this post this way, but here we go... Times are bad. If you have a job, you could very likely be at risk of losing it. If you run your own company, you could just as likely be at risk of not being able to find business. So, what do you do? Too often in the last few months, I've read blog posts and tweets saying "Now is the perfect time to start a business."  Oftentimes, the reasoning is that innovation is what is needed to turn things around, and the implication… Read More