Just a short post today to point you to some fascinating research on generations, geography, and how these forces shape the way we view work and the workplace. In Generations and Geography, Tammy Erickson and Tim Bevins look at the impact of historic events on...
Are you using SlideShare? In addition to leading a session on captivating content at the Frederick New Media and Technology Conference last week, I also had the opportunity to present a 3-minute, 101 overview of the presentation-sharing platform. There are four big...
Hubspot founder Brian Halligan kicked off What’s Next DC* with a terrific presentation on inbound marketing (aka, how to get found by your clients, customers, and prospects). In it, he identified six steps to viral growth and looked at the skill sets needed to market...
What is the future of marketing? That was the topic at a recent Thoughtlead online mini-conference. The premise: Select 60 smart people, ask them one big question, and give them each 60 seconds to make their case. The responses were sometimes predictable. More often,...
We're swimming in data, but are we mining it intelligently? David McCandless is a "data journalist," and he has spent a lot of time thinking about how to sort through data and make the information relevant. In this TED talk, McCandless talks about data in a connected...
I'm a big fan of data-driven decision making. And data means data collection--which means asking smart questions of your employees, prospects, customers, and other key stakeholders. Ask the right questions and you get useful information that you can put into action to...
I've been looking at my Twitterstream in real time since Thursday morning. Unlike the streamtime approach we've become used to, real time has no updates. It is a non-stop stream. Instant-ness. Immediacy. In a blog post aptly titled Trialling Twitter at the Speed of...
Alexandra Samuel interviews Evernote CEO Phil Libin for a blog post about processing data and managing information overload. It's pretty standard stuff--until Libin says this in response to a question about other (non-Evernote) techniques and solutions for managing...
When was the last time you clicked on the “Show Options” button at the top of the Google search results page? If you haven’t looked lately, take a peak. There are some good Web tools available to help you visualize the data. My two favorites: 1. Timeline gives you a...
What should we do with all the data? It’s a question I have been asking a lot; good solutions—not so many. So imagine my excitement when someone finally answered the question of how we can use the huge (and growing) volume of competitive business intelligence. In a...