It seems stodgy old LinkedIn is getting a resurgence as people begin to see it as a viable, more controlled and private alternative to services like Facebook. In part it is because they have added to many useful features, and in part it is because of the backlash from social media users on how they [...]

As major search engines shift their sort criteria and search algorithms around to include everything from social graphs to instant results, how can your company stay relevant? One key way is to use location based services and mapping as much as possible if you have an office or a brick and mortar store. There are [...]

One thing I’m often asked is why I add to my already heavy time load with the education events I bring to NH. That’s easy, I want to make it easy for people to learn what they need to learn, when they need to learn it. I want to empower your success. So I brought [...]

My attention was called to a news story out of Nashua, NH today about 50 instances of breaking and entering, some simple robberies and some home invasions where the people were present. Why call my attention to it? Because the robber had used Facebook status updates to find empty homes, it was a story ripe [...]

What happens if companies as we know them disappear? That’s certainly one version of the future I see as possible. There are certain industries that I think will always have a traditional business structure (construction, auto repair, manufacturing, etc). They are necessary, vital industries but don’t lend themselves to some of the recent trends in [...]

Music makes conversation happen. Social music is one of my favorite things about the social layer of the internet. If you have my instant messenger names (I have quite a few on various services), you’ll always see what I’m currently listening to streaming as my status. Adium (my favorite multi-message service software for the Mac) [...]

What expectation of privacy means to the individual can vary wildly. I’m in the middle of yet another Twitter discussion with a photographer about the subject of posting photos publicly. It started because I shared a link to this article about a photographer’s bill of rights card, and commented that they’d forgotten one: in my [...]

All boats float to the top. If you work with me on a project, you will hear me say this, or a variation of it, at least once. It’s my way of illustrating that a group effort often goes farther than an individual’s efforts can to get something done, and that working together well carries [...]

Every great idea will only show amazing results once. When our attention is grabbed by a multi faceted, innovative (or often simply “first ever”) marketing campaign like the Old Spice campaign featuring Isaiah Mustafa this year, the first inclination of many is to copy it exactly. Businesses see the wild success for the brand, try [...]