{"id":3793,"date":"2009-06-01T03:34:07","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T10:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.web-strategist.com\/blog\/?p=3793"},"modified":"2009-06-01T15:08:40","modified_gmt":"2009-06-01T22:08:40","slug":"how-can-i-improve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/01\/how-can-i-improve\/","title":{"rendered":"How Can I Improve?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the hardest post to write, but perhaps the most important.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoy meeting people in real life, and if they tell me they enjoy reading my blog or tweets, I thank them, and then ask them &#8220;What should I improve on?&#8221;  I realize I don&#8217;t do this enough online, where I&#8217;m located most of the time, and would love to hear from you.  <\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, a contemporary I respect gave me some feedback on an area I should improve on, and while it stung for a second, I know deep down he&#8217;s right.  He reminded me that successful professional and companies know how to listen, take in feedback, and then improve. I&#8217;m not an expert on this, and make my fair share of mistakes, but I should certainly practice what I preach, so here goes:<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll leave the topic very open, love to hear what you think, so how can I improve?  <\/p>\n<p>Feel free to leave a comment, but If you don&#8217;t feel comfortable saying it in public, feel free to email me at jeremiah_owyang @yahoo dot com, or if you want to submit to <a href=\"http:\/\/webstrategy.uservoice.com\/\">uservoice <\/a>(an embracing technology), that&#8217;s fine too, as it helps with prioritization. It really doesn&#8217;t matter which method you choose, I look forward to hearing from you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the hardest post to write, but perhaps the most important. I enjoy meeting people in real life, and if they tell me they enjoy reading my blog or tweets, I thank them, and then ask them &ldquo;What should I improve on?&rdquo; I realize &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/01\/how-can-i-improve\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How Can I Improve?<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feedback","category-ruminations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}