I speak and do workshops on how social technologies are impacting the field of sales quite a bit these days. It is very interesting to me to observe how the field of selling is changing – the big picture. Before making any comment about how salespeople and organizations need to [...]
The following video from TED.com is the second really good video I have seen on the concept of merging game theory with the real world - link - I have also read a few science fiction novels where there is a heavy game in the real world component, for example, [...]
I was watching this TED video on data visualization, check it out. Then I was noticing on Twitter today that every tenth tweet had a link to an infographic and it got me thinking about a visual challenge I deal with when consulting. […]
My son reminded me today that I had just told him a month ago that it was just a matter of time until Facebook bought Foursquare, or just copied their location based model. It was just too obvious. Facebook with their huge volume of users would be too interested in [...]
In the world I work in we are forever trying to find context to the technology changes we are living in. This has caused me to do some deep thinking on where social media/networking/relevance will end up on the scale of impact on the human [...]
If you have not experimented with applications like FourSquare and Gowalla on your mobile device yet I suggest you load them and become familiar. I suspect that either, or both, of these companies will soon be acquired by much large platforms like Facebook, or companies like Google. Either than or [...]
I happen to be in a very unique position when it comes to book publishing. I may be one of the only people in the world to be doing three book projects all at once, and all in different publishing models. I am doing one with McGraw Hill in a [...]
As often happens, the next application that is likely to explode in usage was announced quietly, and will grow through viral user adoption. When Apple rolled out the list of new features on the iPhone 4.0, they handed us an application that does something that does not seem earth shattering [...]
A topic that seems to be getting more press these days is the debate over whether the Internet is making us dumber. There are commenter’s lining up on both sides of the issue and a recent book has stoked the fires. Nicholas Carr has written a number of opinions like [...]
I am not sure if this is happening to you, but it is to me, and evidently to many others as well. It is the dreaded incidence of having a conversation you are involved with in one group, bleeding over to a different group. Or, the situation where you are [...]