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 [...]
Identity theft and fraud are a growing problem, as we all know. Now the conversation I have with people is not if your credit card number has been stolen, but how many times. I have a friend that works for one of the largest fraud detection companies and he keeps [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
There are moments in life when I am very conscious that I am an animal at heart. When I get hungry, there comes a point where I cannot focus on anything other than hunting prey – or at least a doughnut. When someone tackles me on the soccer field, I [...]
The announcement of the Google Wave platform and all the early descriptions of the role it could play in building Web based applications has me thinking about the power of platforms in general. I think an important concept for us all to think about is the trend we are seeing [...]
I cannot stop myself from writing this specific message for you to because I am becoming frustrated that organizations are moving so slowly on this subject. I have been asked to speak to quite a few audiences lately about social media and how it can be used by organizations to [...]
This morning there was a neat new toy in my web arsenal. First let me set the stage for you, you see, I use a lot of Google services; from Gmail, Google Calendar and the Google Documents suite, all the way to Picasa and even Goog411. From that last sentence [...]
Continuing on the advertising track, read this blurb from a Google Blog: We are enabling this functionality by implementing a DoubleClick ad-serving cookie across the Google content network. Using the DoubleClick cookie means that DoubleClick advertisers and publishers don’t have to make any changes on their websites as we continue [...]