“We have to realize that most of the jobs that will be here in ten years haven’t been invented. So it’s hard to set up a curriculum for these new kind of creatives.”

These jobs that are yet to be created are in the realm of the knowledge worker, the creators of ideas that will transform the workplace.

Where should we look for new ideas?

The blogosphere is full of these creative types, and there is the very real possibility that one of the remarkable people that comes to SOBCon this year just may create something that no one has ever seen before. But we are not learning these skills in college, or in high school. We are learning them from each other as we reach out across teh interwebs and talk. We talk to our friends and neighbors, whether they are around the corner or in faraway countries.

This new medium has transformed the way that people talk to each other, work and live together, create businesses and communities. Everything is different today, and it will change again tomorrow.

Can we share something here?

All this talk about conversations, and the amazing things that we see on places like Twitter and Flickr everyday gives me a great deal of confidence in our future. So here are some questions for sharing:

• Where do you get your ideas?
• What gets your creative juices flowing?
• Who inspires you to be better today than you were yesterday?

Please leave a Comment, and share your answers.

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!

This is the time of year to celebrate new projects, and what project could be more celebratory than getting ready for SOBCon 2009?

How about an affiliate program for SOBCon 2009? That’s right, Terry Starbucker wanted me to let you all know that there is a super new way to promote the conference and save yourself some money!

We have launched the “SOBCon09 Affiliates Program” on Eventbrite.

This provides bloggers the opportunity to earn a referral commission for every registration that results from a click-through from their site.

Of course, this helps SOBCon promote the event too!

The commission will be 5% of the registration amount.

Of course, you all can sign up for this and earn some commissions - please also tell your friends about it as well.

This is what you need to do:

1) Go to the Eventbrite Affiliate link.

2) If you have an Eventbrite account, you will be prompted to log in. If you don’t have an account, you’ll need to provide an e-mail account and a password.

3) Once you do that, you’ll go to another screen that will ask you to join the program.

4) Open a new browser window/tab and go to provide link to obtain the SOBCon badge/widget

5) Copy/paste the appropriate badge/widget to your blog/website

6) Return to your Eventbrite window, to the “My Account” page that will have the referral link to put on your blog, copy this link code

7) Add this link to the badge/widget on your blog.

Publish, go to your blog and check to see that the link works.

9) Return to Eventbrite, you should find that your account has been updated with a least one site visit. You can check your ongoing ticket sales and commissions on the “Account” page, “Event Affiliate Program” tab.

For right now you can use one of these banner for your promotions, we will have some more cool banners soon.

Then use the referral link that you were given to send folks to the Eventbrite registration site.

Good luck! We are looking forward to seeing you in Chicago!