http://www.thommitchell.com Navigating through the intersections of business and technology Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:15:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.thommitchell.com/2009/11/04/rugby-refereeing-and-business/ http://www.thommitchell.com/2009/11/04/rugby-refereeing-and-business/#comments Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:03:49 +0000 Thom http://www.thommitchell.com/?p=450 To paraphrase Ferris Bueller – “Life moves pretty fast on the rugby pitch”. No other sport has the equivalent number of players on the field with so few officials. In Rugby there is one official, always addressed as Sir or Ma’am, and 30 players playing for 2 40-minute halves. I recently took a rugby referee certification class which consisted [...]]]> http://www.thommitchell.com/2009/11/04/rugby-refereeing-and-business/feed/ 0 http://www.thommitchell.com/2009/10/28/making-way-for-new-talent/ http://www.thommitchell.com/2009/10/28/making-way-for-new-talent/#comments Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:29:16 +0000 Thom http://www.thommitchell.com/?p=264 This summer at a rugby match I was watching an formerly good player play a position at which he once excelled, but was now half a step too slow to be consistently effective. His play calling was perfect and he found the defensive holes to exploit, but now instead of getting his passes off cleanly, he was getting tackled and losing [...]]]> http://www.thommitchell.com/2009/10/28/making-way-for-new-talent/feed/ 0 http://www.thommitchell.com/2009/08/28/7-social-media-rules-of-thumb/ http://www.thommitchell.com/2009/08/28/7-social-media-rules-of-thumb/#comments Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:33:53 +0000 Thom http://www.thommitchell.com/?p=328 Despite countless blog posts and multiple books on how to use social media, people new to the medium still have questions. So here’s my seven social media rules of thumb relying heavily on the classic Journalistic Heuristic of who, what, where, when, why and how. 1. Who should use social media? It seems like this is often the first question asked [...]]]> http://www.thommitchell.com/2009/08/28/7-social-media-rules-of-thumb/feed/ 5