Hey had a great conversation today with some folks around the country on what we are all doing on Facebook. Looks like one of the biggest thing we are all doing on Facebook is Causes. Here where I work at the American Cancer Society we started a cause to help fund our Camps for Kids [...]
A few days ago I raised the issue of who should be the curators of health information on the internet in the context of whether or not Google is "white bread for the mind." So it’s interesting to see this notification that one of the biggest science journal publishing houses, Elsevier, has started a clinical [...]
I kept a link to the following article out of sheer curiosity. I’ve heard a number of people lately put the knock on the current younger generation for expecting instant success and being unwilling to take "constructive" criticism. It didn’t fit with my experience, but I have only a small sample of teenagers and twenty-somethings [...]
They say you can take a good guess about the future by looking at those
who will be in charge then, and if that holds the Pew study on Teens
and Social Media is pretty telling. It focuses on the fact that social
media gained a greater foothold in teen life as they embrace the
conversational nature of interactive [...]
Gosh, the heat about what is relevant in corporate IT I referred to a few days ago is going up. From today’s Computerworld:
According to a growing chorus of IT leaders, consultants and bloggers,
IT needs to shift into a new role. It should continue its traditional
responsibilities, such as governance, security and control of costs and
return on [...]
Just when you think you’ve got a grip on Web 2.0, along comes somebody who claims to be inventing Web 3.0. The latest claim comes from European researchers who say they’re re-inventing the internet so that "users" can slap together their own networks without all the technical fuss and hardware that dictates how internet 1.0 [...]
An on line appeal has the benefit and the curse of fast acceptance/rejection. That is why it is so important to establish a rapport. Difficult as it is on a Web Site.
#1: Rapport: Start with rapport laden words.
#2: Rationale: I’m contacting you because you are who you are.
#3: Heroism: Tell the prospective that he can [...]
The year 2020 appears to be the current horizon for forecasting. Before 2020 is too short term, and after that…who knows?
I ran across a study titled "Shaping the Future of Global Business" conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit of The Economist Magazine and sponsored by Cisco Systems. Their summary of major trends is not [...]
Do you ever have a creeping doubt in the back of your mind if these things work? Does a donation get made for all those yogurt lids? If I visit feed a dog.com does a homeless dog really get fed? If I click on a link on the rainforest blog does a baby parrot get [...]
An article in Technology Review the other day came as a surprise to me. IBM is releasing Lotus Mashups, a piece of software for making widgets and mashups easy for users to do in the enterprise. In other words, workers inside a company with Lotus products (like the ACS) will be able to create feeds [...]
