“It’s Hard To Believe People Lived This Way”

Forward this to your Twitter and Facebook skeptic, but you might want to do so on a floppy disk. Innovation and introspection. Here’s why this matters: Today’s best leaders realize that they must prepare for today,  but with an eye on tomorrow.

Email is the Lava Lamp. Google Wave is the Flying Delorean.

Email was invented over 40 years ago. What would email be like if it was invented today? When you think about it, really think about it, it doesn’t look a day over 50 or 60. Think about how flat email is in comparison to other tools: 1) “Reply All” purgatory. A mass email goes out [...]

Q: What is Google Wave? A: Next big thing. Here’s Why This Matters for Business

100,000 invitations are being sent today for the launch of Google Wave, but what is it? Google wave combines the best features of the most popular Web 2.0 tools including wikis, social networking, photo sharing, video sharing, chat and email. Imagine Wikipedia, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, instant messenger and email all rolled up into one. Business [...]

I Stole Your Bike and Your Company Profit

Step 1: Engineer the perfect bike lock. Step 2: Build a Website and Optimize Search in Google so it is the top hit. Step 3: Realize that someone posted a YouTube Video showing how to open the perfect bike lock with a bic pen and it regularly hits Google just under you. Step 4: Go [...]

Don’t Be A Networking Jerk: Part 2

Scenario: You run into a near impossible business problem. You KNOW that your old friend Archibald Barrissol can solve this problem, but you have not spoken to Archibald in over a year. To make matters worse, over the course of the past year, Archibald has friend-ed you on Facebook, introduced you to three business contacts [...]

Here’s Why This Matters – Part 3: Nostradamus Tweets

Social Media is the best focus group ever assembled. It is your crystal ball.   It’s instant, it’s reliable and it’s inexpensive. The best marketers on the planet know what works and what doesn’t before they fully invest in a direct mail, print or television campaign. How? They test concepts via Twitter, FaceBook and LinkedIn before [...]

Dilbert – “That Concludes My Two Hour Presentation. Any Questions?”

Continuing on the Death By PowerPoint theme, Dilbert always seems to be able to tie a nice little bow on a topic: Here is an excerpt from a great article: Smart Presentations: Remember This By John Windsor The greatest truths are the simplest. Often, they touch what we know or believe, but with an economy [...]

Stop. Killing. Me. With. PowerPoint. Period.

Comprehensive advice for anyone who wants to convince anyone of anything via PowerPoint. UPDATE: This deck seems slow to load. If so, click here.

Don’t Be A Networking Jerk – 5 Rules

(Excerpts from Keith Ferrazzi’s book, “Never Eat Alone”) If you are in business long enough, you have found yourself wrapping up at the registration table of a networking event looking around going: “oh God, now what I do?”. Networking is hard. It takes most, if not all of us out of our comfort zone. Internal [...]

Twitter for Business – Presentation

Thanks again for all the great comments after today’s Twitter for Business presentation. The enthusiasm was contagious and it was an honor to present to such a talented group. Please find the attached link to today’s deck. Many of you asked about Twitter tools. There is an additional upload with the short list. There are [...]