Money is going Mobile!
We all made the move from Cash to checks to credit card to debit cards and it look like we are ready to start spending our cash via a mobile devises! no need to carry any cards, just carry your phone and you can buy anything. Mobile purchase has been around for a long time [...]
Fresh food give fresh opportunty for convenience stores?
Convenient stores not just for lottery tickets anymore.
Shocker! Marketers miss mark with consumers
Consumers want information that is relevant, not everything the marketing team can think to send them.
Amazon Kindle as a Platform?
I love my Kindle, but I’m not sure I would use it for gaming, surfing the web chatting with friends or even updating my Twitter – I have a smart phone for that.
AT&T fights back the right way
AT&T case against Verizon “There’s a map for that” ad was rejected by a Federal Judge in Atlanta Wednesday. AT&T claims the ad was misleading, but at this point does it matter? The damage is done. Yes, the can fight it in court, win and maybe get a monitory judgment, but will that make difference [...]
Being Strategic with Technology.
Here is the question I have for you: Is technology or the use of technology a part of your strategic plan? and if not, why?
Does your staff use technology; do your volunteers use technology? do your donors use technology? Then why are you thinking strategically about technology?
Technology has become one of the cornerstones of operating [...]
Social Media – making lemonade out of lemons
On September 17, 2009, former Merrill Lynch & Co, CEO John Thain gave a speech to a group at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Business School.
Why the ousted leader of one of our nations great business collapse was talking to future business leaders is beyond me, but maybe he was telling them how not to [...]
Social Media and Integrity
What does it say about the integrity of our press corps when things that are said off record are blasted on Twitter? Especially when it’s the President of the United States.
Are we telling people in public office that they are no longer able to trust members of the press or the people that they work [...]
Social Media for Silicon Valley Businesses
This month iSHOUT interactive is introducing “Silicon Valley HOT”
This page will be a listing of deals and specials from around the Silicon Valley.
To get the page started we are offering a free 30 day listing with related deals and specials.
iSHOUT interactive will promote your business, deals, specials and page free of charge for 30 day [...]
The Internet, Activism and Southeast Asia
An article in this mornings Wall Street Journal, written by James Hookway, talks about the crack down of some Southeast Asian governments on bloggers expressing themselves freely on the internet. It’s a good article which can be read here: Web Censoring Widens Across Southeast Asia.
The thought of having my personal thoughts, watched, tracked, captured and [...]