Today is a very special day. And if you have a teenage daughter, read entertainment blogs, follow the trending topics on Twitter, or are secretly listening to “One Less Lonely Girl” on your Pandora station (you know who you are…), you’re aware that it’s Justin Bieber’s 17th birthday. That’s right.…
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[Facebook Actually (Part 2)] If you’ve been following my little three part mini-series, you already know what social network holds a special place in my heart. If you haven’t – well you probably read the title of this post and figured it out. But it’s true. My love for Facebook…
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Marketing is becoming more complicated – that’s widely accepted as true. Consumers can choose from millions of ways to consume content (or more aptly, millions of ways to ignore it), so it is becoming harder to reach them with your message. Television is the most straightforward example: in the 1950s,…
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In 1995, Clifford Stoll wrote an interesting analysis of the internet for my favorite magazine, Newsweek. The story titled, “The Internet? Bah! Hype alert: Why cyberspace isn't, and will never be, nirvana” ends with the argument that human contact is really what’s missing from the “electronic wonderland”. Stoll has crossed…
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To only be 26, I like to think of myself as an old school kind of guy. I believe in hard work, think buying jeans with holes in them is ridiculous and wouldn’t trade in my paperback for a Kindle if it was free and served on a golden platter. …
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