When I was a kid, we were told that it was critical to learn the three R’s – reading, writing, and arithmetic. Set aside the oxymoronic fact that these do not all start with R, and ask yourself the question “what is critical for kids to learn today?” I have [...]

I am pretty sure that most people in the world have not given a lot of thought to the exploding dynamic of online rating systems.  Angieslist.com is becoming a rating site standard for just about any service or professional that you might want to hire in your city.  There are [...]

“Generation M, born after 1982 – mobile, multimedia, multitasking – are already showing their distinctive differences. One of these differences is the advent of the supercommunicator. There is growing evidence that the internet augments physical relationships rather than displaces/replaces them. We do have to worry about the digital divide risk [...]

One of the things I enjoy about being an older guy is that I have had the experience of watching human dynamics through a number of cycles.  This creates a perspective if one is willing to use it. […]

It is a wise policy, if you are a highly paid speaker, to be as accurate as possible when predicting the next big things. Every once in a while, I will make a big deal out of a new concept that will be coming, and I miss-time it. For the [...]

Being the kind of person that is forced to think big thoughts for a living, I am always on the hunt for new things to learn. It is a knowledge economy after all so the smart people win and I like to win. This is actually one of the things [...]

I am sitting at an airport in the American Airlines Admiral club. I just wanted you to have the picture in your head so you understand where I am coming from. I am getting more work done here than I do from about anywhere else. It Is Friday night around [...]

One of the problems with wading through an explosion of new technologies is the issue of trying to put it all on context. I never stop thinking about what the unifying theories might be that will help clients and audience members to focus on what will bring the quick and [...]

Every morning I scan through my personal river of information so I can grab the pieces that might be helpful to me, or to my clients. As I looked today, I reviewed the Google site Demoslam which pits software applications against one another. […]

I read with interest every article I can find on companies that are struggling to value the ROI of social technologies. Many of these complain about how hard it is, while others swear by solid sales gain analytics. I am now becoming more and more motivated to roll my eyes [...]