Unusual Gift It May Be; For Geeks They Are
I don't normally review products here, but I like Mimobot for three reasons: (1) They took a boring little USB drive and made it fun to carry (and harder to forget or loose); (2) A 2GB USB drive they sent to me in the form of the Jedi Master Yoda, which gives me...
MBA Candidates Need Metrics, Too
I recently had the privilege of sharing my thoughts on analytics for the next decade with Dr. Venkatraman's social media class at the Suffolk University Sawyer Business School. I would like to thank Sean Zinsmeister for inviting me to speak with the MBA candidates,...
Crowdsourcing Real Time Traffic Reports
We’re out in traffic every day. We’re not only on the big highways, but busy local roads. With all this mobile technology, wouldn’t it be great if our mobile devices could talk to each other and share real-time traffic reports? Meet waze–pronounced “ways,”–a mobile...
Everything Is Still Local (Or 3 Burritos to the Wind)
Your web searches go through the cloud to the behemoth Google. Facebook lets us cross the years and miles with ease. If we have a tough question, we can use any social network to reach out to a subject matter expert around the world. Sometimes, it’s hard to remember...
500-Billion Impressions
One of the truly wonderful things about social media is you get to follow events, like conferences, from a far. In my case, it was reading the thoughts of people attending the recent Forrester Consumer Forum. The great things about these events is attendees quote,...
PodCamp NH 2010
Nearly 100 people attended the second unconference, PodCamp New Hampshire (PCNH) held at the Portsmouth Harbor Events Center in Portsmouth NH. (Related: What a PodCamp? ) If you attended my session on growing ears (to measure the voices of social media) and how to...
