LIVING ON THE GRID Is your reputation ruined? Perhaps. And chances are great that if, indeed, insurance companies consider you uninsurable and potential employers consider you unemployable because of something in your digital “record,” you
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THE SECOND MACHINE AGE A New Era Going Full Steam For most of us, the Industrial Age refers to the late 19th-century explosion of large companies with large factories that fundamentally changed the way we
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MONSTER LOYALTY WHY YOU NEED TO GO GAGA FOR YOUR CUSTOMERS Pop stars will always have their die-hard fans, and superstar Lady Gaga (real name Stefani Germanotta) is no different. Lady Gaga calls her fans
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Despite the bad press that Mark Zuckerberg has received over the Winklevoss twins, Facebook privacy issues, and the disastrous IPO, Facebook is nevertheless an overwhelming success story. Zuckerberg has overcome the odds of moving from
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THE IMPACT EQUATION AN EQUATION FOR SOCIAL MEDIA SUCCESS Bloggers Chris Brogan and Julien Smith burst onto the publishing scene in 2009 with their social media marketing best-seller Trust Agents. They return with a new
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BY INVITATION ONLY There is an old maxim that friends should not do business together since it invariably ruins the friendship. The Information Age has disproven this notion as best friends and college roommates have
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There has been a surge of new tablet announcements lately. Kobo rushed out four new versions (Glo, Mini, Touch and Arc) to beat Amazon to the punch with their announcement of the Kindle Paperwhite and
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The Wall St Journal published a special issue this week on education called Squaring Off on Education. There are several interesting topics covered in this debate-style issue, but the one that caught my eye was
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Recently, I was on a conference call with my office and on the other line was a room full of people. As I listened, my email alert popped up and I clicked over to see
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Build it and they will come. That’s what some companies believe about websites. All you need is a snazzy website and a Google adword account, and everyone will flock to your site and spend their
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I recently ran across a great article written by Jimm Fox of One Market Media on the many business uses of video. I’ve listed his main categories below, and you can check out the full
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