Most of us are always reviewing org charts and work flows in search of ways to become more efficient. Over time businesses evolve, economic climate changes and technology advances, often spawning automated solutions that can do what was once manual. On the surface automation seems like a no-brainer trade off of human capital. And why [...]
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The New Yorker Cover Re-Imagined on an iPhone
May 26, 2009
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I’ve been getting The New Yorker magazine in my mailbox for about 13 years. The archivist in me used to save every issue. It was pretty easy, after all why did I buy a big house if I wasn’t going to fill it up? But three years ago I moved, so the recycle bin got [...]
Read moreLast and Final from the Forrester Consumer Forum 2008
November 8, 2008
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As mentioned in the last episode, this post will skip the Forrester speakers and customer presentations and cover one of the “outsiders.” Forrester always places a strong speaker at the end of the second day in an attempt to help keep their attendees on site. It usually thins out anyway, but for those who stay [...]
Read moreMy Favorite iPhone Apps, So Far
August 6, 2008
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I’ve got a first day (June 30, 2007) iPhone. The beauty of the iPhone is how seamlessly everything is knitted together. Email, text, contacts, calendar, phone, camera, photo gallery, music library, maps, the Internet. I can get to just about anything I might need to know as long as I have it with me and [...]
Read moreAll the World’s a Sage
June 27, 2008
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Marshall McLuhan’s watershed work The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects is obviously the inspiration for this post. I first came across his book in 1967 and was completely blown away. My best friend, Tim, a budding graphic designer and fantasy artist, came running up to my front door waving the book. We launched [...]
Read moreOnline Grocery Shopping Evolves
June 21, 2008
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I absolutely HATE grocery shopping. Let me be a little more specific. It’s not so much the shopping part that I hate. It’s driving there, waiting in the long checkout lines, pushing the cart to the car, driving them home, lugging them into the house, and generally wasting 1-3 hours every week. As a self-proclaimed, [...]
Read moreRed Cross Using Social Community
June 20, 2008
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The recent heartbreaking events of the midwest floods have reached unprecedented heights. Anyone that lives in a stricken area or has a friend or loved one there, wants to know as much information as possible about what’s happening on the ground. The American Red Cross has always had a focus on communication, and are now [...]
Read moreAgricultural, Industrial, Technological… Eco-Age?
June 5, 2008
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This really is an exciting time to be alive. There are some crucial moments in the offing. Arguably the most significant presidential election to be held since the birth of the first baby boomer. A realization that our climate is changing and we may be the cause. Growing, insatiable demand for oil driving prices to [...]
Read moreMore Thoughts About Social Media
June 3, 2008
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You’re in a meeting with marketing execs (or you are marketing exec) and the topic is social media. The various constituents around the table have come with their usual analog playbook. “Tell them how great our products are, get them to buy, here’s where we make our money,” blah, blah, blah. One of the first [...]
Read moreBaseball Memories Can’t Be Demolished
May 18, 2008
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One of the things they don’t tell you about getting older is much of the structural part of the world you experienced in your youth will be demolished before your very eyes. Movie theaters, bars, bowling alleys, stores, schools, sometimes even the residences where you once lived. This change is most obvious when you leave [...]
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