Ubiquity is a next shiny thing worth watching

I’ve been trying hard this year not to link to items that fall into the shiny object chasing category I’d call “tech-blogger meme-of-the-day.” However, I can’t help myself on this one. Mozilla Labs (the folks behind the Firefox browser) has a concept project called Ubiquity that utilizes an interface concept that will be very familiar and compelling to users of the software called Quicksilver. I’ve never tried to explain Quicksilver, but here goes: It a light-weight utility that I use... [Read the full story]

America’s Got Talent Is Back With the Talent And A Surprise

With the pesky Olympics out of the way, the reality fans in us all are glad to have America’s Got Talent back on with the search for the next great talent with America taking over the act of buzzing by voting the contestants off that don’t fit the mold of who America thinks should win it all.  With judges, Piers Morgan, Sharon Osbourne and David Hasselhoff ready to hopefully not buzz too much, the race was on as we enter the home stretch of the summer blockbuster. The live action started off with Jerry Springer... [Read the full story]

How Brite is Future Business?

There is an old saying, “if you stay in this world you will never learn another one.” Learning the dynamics, the art and the science of the new world created by the social web is one of the foremost challenges for businesses. Current business theories are correct in their own world, but the problem is that the theory may not make contact with the new world. For businesses to succeed in the new world a transformation in leadership thinking will be required. Back to the Future Imagine if business leaders were able to go... [Read the full story]

Do You Have An Online Strategy? (Shameless self-promotional post)

Jon Henshaw, the SEO guru (among many other things) at the web-development firm, Sitening, says some very nice things about the online strategy displayed on the Hammock Inc. company website, Hammock.com. (Yes, I do have a job.) Thanks, Jon. I feel like Sally Field. There are subtle things about the site that Jon notes — simple things that took me years of blogging to figure out and that took several people at Hammock (not just me, but thanks for the credit, Jon) nearly a year to think through. Again, it’s a... [Read the full story]

Economic Development 2.0

August 2008, By Bill Trüb, businessfacilities.com E-cities. Cyber communities. Broadband economies. Byte by byte, digital infrastructures are being built all around us, and visions of the future are becoming reality. In our tech-hungry, forward-reaching business world, the days of dial-up Internet connections are tucked away in a file folder labeled "Outdated." The most progressive cities around the world are slinging webs of fiber optic wires throughout their communities, building networks of information highways, and... [Read the full story]

How magazine circulation remains steady when two weeks ago it was down 6.3%

Folio: is reporting that business-to-business (or “trade”) magazine circulation remained mostly flat during the first half of 2008, according to numbers released by the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Earlier this month, the same audit bureau reported newsstand sales of magazines was down 6.3% in the same period. If you weren’t living under a rock, you probably read the widespread coverage when those newsstand numbers were released. Beyond Folio, a few B-to-B bloggers and the website of American Business... [Read the full story]

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Doing a little blog maintenance that requires a post. Sorry for all of the echos this post will generate.  Read More →

The Power of Being Genuinely Sorry

I’ve talked before about answering your social phone. It’s the idea that you’re paying attention to all the social media channels that may be talking about you and your company, and then engaging the people who are talking about you…whether they’re saying something good or bad. I saw an email come in over the weekend that was a correspondence between one of my clients and an upset customer. The customer had a series of very frustrating experiences with my client and chose to Tweet about all... [Read the full story]

Selling or Sharing?

I was recently engaged with a company which was getting ready to launch a branded social network. They were all excited about bringing in the top names in their industry to join their network and selling their goods. They were getting ready to tell the top named people to join the network and just cut and paste “stuff” from these peoples own web sites and post the information onto their newly formed network. I went and looked at a few of the web sites for the proposed top names then I told the parties STOP... [Read the full story]

About You or Them?

In our efforts to try to even attempt to stay on top of the dynamics of the social networking space we consume volumes of material daily. What has become apparent in reading research, announcements and participating in numerous networks, forums and blogs is that for the most part the perspectives are wrong. Many are writing about new networks, new functions and the pundits’ are screaming about the growth of social networking on line and in the mobile space. Additionally the marketers are all trying to figure out how... [Read the full story]

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