You are your ( social ) network The case of Noah Kravitz has hit front page and, rightly so. If you haven’t heard about it, you should read this article in the New York Times. In short, Noah Kravitz is being sued for damages – to the tune of $340,000 — by his former employer, PhoneDog [...]
Digital Marketing by the Pols I made a presentation a couple of weeks ago at Hotel Napoleon, at the Conference entitled “Innovation Napoleon.” This conference, at which I have made a number of presentations, unites a heterogenous crowd around digital and innovation topics. Usually, there is anywhere up to 100 people in attendance. At this [...]
The power of digital organization In this, the last of the 5 posts on the best productivity tools, the focus here is on the power of lists, groups and filters. Call it your Digital Network Organization (D.N.O.). Best in class management skills inevitably require being tremendously organized. In the digital sphere, the skills must be [...]
I was mildly amused to receive the Alpha Invitation to join Diaspora. Just after having written about social media fatigue and the continuing appearance of new choices in social media, here comes yet another choice. A long time in the making, Diaspora* (www.joindiaspora.com) has the makings of a different offer. The brainchild of 4 NYU [...]
The Experiment & the Experience: What happened? In this prior post, I described how I decided to put together a social media experiment around the celebration of my grandfather’s 100th birthday. He died December 15, 1944 and surely would have been flummoxed by the likes of Facebook… In any event, here is how that day [...]
An Unvieling of Facebook’s Growth Not that we need to keep weekly tabs on the meteroic rise of Facebook, but there was something a little curious about the statistics that were published (thanks to CheckFacebook) about the fastest growing Facebook countries last week (week of April 18, 2011). I noticed two things in particular. What [...]
The Bell Curve Tolls for Thee When people argue against Facebook, they often like to cite the one or two negatives cases that have been heavily mediatized (people getting fired because of a posting on a Facebook wall, a girl who tragically committed suicide…). However, taking refuge behind the extreme cases (the blackest of the [...]
A SOCIAL MEDIA EXPERIMENT I am on a mission. I have launched a social media experiment (over on Minter Dialogue Blog) regarding the 100th anniversary of the birth of my grandfather, Lt Cdr N Minter Dial, after whom I was named. I spent the better part of eight years researching the life of my grandfather who [...]
If Facebook has gained 20 million users in France, there are still some people in France who are recalcitrant users, wary of the platform and feel more or less forced to join (6 reasons why not to join!). But, to paraphrase Joel de Rosnay, France is not rear guard; it treads with hindsight. In turn, [...]
