If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!This may look like an Australian story. It is that, but it’s bigger, because it is significant for citizens of any democratic country and others who cherish democratic principles. The new Australian government has announced stringent new controls over the…
In November there was a brouhaha about Facebook’s Beacon innovation, which for a lot of people represented an unacceptable intrusion on privacy. GigaOm saw it as “a privacy disaster waiting to happen”. It looks to me as if we are concluding the year with, for practical purposes, Facebook off the hook, but the jury still…
About six months ago I installed on my Thinking Home Business and then on this blog the lijit search and statistics tool. I acknowledge I’m a fan of lijit and have been from the outset. The fandom is due in no small measure to the attention the people at lijit obviously pay to those who…
Best-selling author, expert on the future of business and in-demand global speaker, Ross Dawson, Chairman of the Future Exploration Network, is a pusher of boundaries, especially in the social-media-in-the-enterprise space. He is also, it should be said, great company and a marvelous encourager of others. Over the past couple of years I have had the…
General Douglas MacArthur famously said, “Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind”. Going by a provocative post last week on Media Bullseye, it would appear that Chip Griffin subscribes to the late general’s principle, with regard at least to social media. Throwing Out the Social…
(Update: as this post has been consistently the most visited on this site for the past two years, I felt an update was in order – overdue even. See Simple Template for Social Media Strategy: Update – posted November 30, 2009)So it was very timely this morning that I glanced at my Twitbin and saw…