Just about every organization in the world is involved in some type “selling.” The product could be a widget, a service, donations, or content, and in every case, it has to be “sold” to someone. I happened to start my career in 1980 and in the first few years I [...]
With all the buzz about SocMed in the world, I thought I would take a shot at identifying the various players in this exploding drama. It is easier to comprehend a complicated subject like this if we simply look at the participants and what they love, and what they hate [...]
We are now reaching an interesting point in the growth of the Web. For the first time, you can run a search on a company or product and you will likely find more information about what other people say about them than what they say about themselves. Time was, we [...]
I spent some time looking at the technology from qwaq.com. They have built an application that is designed to support virtual teams by creating a “place” online for co-workers to meet. Think Second Life, but restricted and augmented for the purpose of facilitating online meetings and discussions. There are times [...]
I have been thinking for a week on how to express this second part of how technology is driving the need for changes in our educational system. In order to make this clear, I am just going to contrast what I think needs to leave the schools, and what needs [...]
In February next year, I will be speaking at a conference in Mumbai about how schools can use computers in class to teach innovation, and creativity. The nice thing about knowing this far in advance that I will be doing something like this is that I get a long time [...]
Whenever I speak to a group of larger companies, I always ask the audience how many block common social media sites. On the average, about a third raise their hands. This becomes a common question they then ask me, “how do you feel about blocking common sites Scott?” So here [...]
I woke up the other morning and a phrase popped into my head, “the seeds of the future are already planted.” This is an eloquent way to express something I have been preaching for a few years now. It is possible to accurately predict the future state of certain areas [...]
One of the topics I speak on quite a bit these days is the growing importance of managing ones online reputation. There are two varieties that are becoming areas of impact these days, the first being our personal reputations, and the second being the organizational reputation. I was getting ready [...]
I have always believed that one of the really important responsibilities a writer has is to ask interesting questions. Questions make us think about life in new ways, and once we do, our minds cannot snap back to what they were before. So here is my question… What would Jesus [...]