What is a Biznik...from a tagline perspective?

At first taste, "Radical Self Promotion" was too hard-around-the-edges for my sensibilities, but that aversion lasted just a nano-second, and the phrase settled in perfectly.

I'm abhor anything that approaches a Starving Artist paradigm; it's all an anchor and a cage.

So, Self Promotion, celebrated--well, it's about ph*ckin time. Radically--keepin' it out of the ruts of mediocrity and falseness.

True Bizniks embody certain qualities and the qualties of our interactions convey a lot about what Biznik is and seeks. So, the hard-around-the-edges element of "Radical Self Promotion" fades away.

Danny - you joined before I did so who am I to recommend better ways for you to improve on your conception of Biznik, but I do have a couple thoughts. First, I agree that it is what you say it is and I like how you got there. Also, I like your main message of telling people what you do - and I should probably do it better myself.

Rather than characterize Biznik as "struggling with identity" I would say that it is fundamentally organic in it's expression. Now let's see if I can make that make sense. I want to use the term "systems approach" but there might be some academically correct connotation that I'm not aware of. My use of the term comes from Permaculture and things like The Natural Step. It recognizes natural systems as collections of elements that perform various functions; the more functions an element can perform (services provided or products produced which are used by other elements of the system) the more complex, but also stable, the system.

Anyway, that might all be old hat to you, but I see Biznik as functioning this way, intentionally or not. And when I say organic I mean it in the sense that we are all elements of the Biznik "system" and in the sense that it is both creative and adaptive.

There's nothing worse than long rambling posts so I will leave it at that.

DD