Entries tagged with “technology”

Have you ever read something in the newspaper that, literally, made you burst out in laughter? You know, the kind of laughter that could best be described as the verbal equivalent of, "really? this is what you're thinking?" In the...

Just a blip in the history of the world. Didn't really mean much of anything, and was only the first generation of Marketing, Advertising and Communications. Think about that. Marketing, Advertising and Communications had really not changed all that much...

David Usher started a new Blog called, CloudiD, where he plans on Blogging about all things art, technology and communications. He's got my attention and, based on the many comments he's getting on every Blog posting since it launched, others...

"Not embracing social networking is like saying I'd rather hide my money under the mattress than put it in a bank. Companies make a big mistake when they prohibit these tools out of the sheer fear of what employees will...

While there's always plenty of chatter about how Google is innovating, there's also tons of amazing things happening over at Microsoft as well. I've had a lot of people feedback to me that they would like more in-depth Blogging about...

There is a common belief in Marketing circles that for the Digital Marketing industry to grow, we need to be spending more time on college and university campuses educating young people on the opportunities available within the Digital Marketing sector....

No one explains Technology, Social Media and Web 2.0 like Lee Lefever and the good people at Common Craft. And, they've done it again. If you're still on the fence about twitter and other micro-Blogging platforms, the Common Craft team...

The TED Conference trashed me. I feel like I went to Monterey, California as an empty bucket, got completely overfilled with water and then someone just dumped me all over the street. I'm drained. There's a slight temptation to mention...

There are a couple of thoughts rattling around my noggin' today. For perspective, I'm currently bouncing around on a United flight from Halifax to Chicago (lots of turbulence). The flight was severely delayed, so I have no idea if I...

If people like Avinash Kaushik are all excited over the notion of Web Analytics 2.0 and getting beyond the "what are they doing" and into cool metrics like sessions, downloads, actions and other telling ways of seeing who's doing what...

How many times do you have that "need to smack myself in the head" feeling for not having thought of an idea? Well, here we go again. I'm pretty excited to be heading out to Monterey, California next week to...

Have you been watching the Second Life and Virtual World backlash lately? I find it all a little funny. You have Disney scooping up Club Penguin for lots of millions, newly-formed agencies cutting major Brand gigs and deals with some...

If you think online social networks like Facebook or Web 2.0 companies already know way too much about you, what do you think will happen when all of your information is centralized and simple to transfer from one place to...

Access is still the issue. Being connected is everything. I've been thinking a lot about technology, mobile and where this is all going from a Marketing perspective. I think we're not going anywhere until we resolve the issue of connectivity....

I was just catching up on some feeds and noticed that David Weinberger (co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto and author of Small Pieces Loosely Joined and Everything Is Miscellaneous) posted on his Joho The Blog this: The Value Of The...

"Morris insists there wasn't a thing he or anyone else could have done differently. 'There's no one in the record company that's a technologist,' Morris explains. 'That's a misconception writers make all the time, that the record industry missed this....

TED is the big conference. Once a year, one thousand people pay a lot of money to jumpstart their brains. TED stands for Technology Entertainment Design and is happening this year - February 27th - March 1st, 2007 in Monterey,...

I got inspired last night at the Pecha Kucha event that happened in Montreal. For those not familiar with what Pecha Kucha is, you can check out my Blog posting over here: Getting To The PowerPoint - True Art In...