Michael Lehman's Independent Innovation

Ok, September has officially started and life is back "in session". After moving, a great vacation and recovering from the digital debt of being "off-the-grid" for 12 days in a row (a record in recent history!) I'm now ready to continue my exploration of the brave new world of the 21st century. While I'll be writing ...

I discovered Edith Yeung "Dream Think Act" website via Bob Walsh who went to a recent presentation by Seth Godin in Silicon Valley. Edith is a former consultant who left the corporate world this year to pursue an independent career as a public speaker and professional coach. Her post about "99 Life Lessons Learned from Quitting ...

Independent Innovators, of course, want to get paid.  Some will simply put a "tip" jar on their blog.  Some will send users through the PayPal website.  And some will want custom interfaces that support subscriptions, custom user interface and more. All can benefit at many levels by checking out the new book Pro PayPal ...

On this site when I talk about the 'color' of bits I mean the type (art, music, text, code) of the digital IP that Independent Innovators distribute. However, in his post "What Colour are your bits?", Matthew Skala (blog home page) has a very interesting point to make about the 'colour' of bits by which he means the ...

Hello and welcome to the first day of Michael Lehman's Independent Innovation blog and podcast. In the 1970's Richard Nelson Bolles wrote an enormously popular career advice book entitled "What Color is Your Parachute?"  In the 21st century, I think the new question is "What Color are Your Bits?".  You can ...