5 Social Enabler?
Why blog?
May 7th
I’ve been thinking about what motivates people leave comments on blog posts or Internet articles. Chris Lau commented on one of his own posts that comments only correspond to about 0.5% of page views. In my comments I mentioned that a panelist in the referenced video noted that people who comment are non-representative of the [...]
Book review: True names and eternal questions: Vernor Vinge and the cyberspace frontier
May 6th
This book contains “True names”, a novella by Vernor Vinge, and nine essays on deep political and technological issues underlying the novella. As it often happens with true artists, Vinge, who published his story in 1981, predicted a lot of problems that we face today. He was the first to describe cyberspace (although the actual [...]
Resources for technology-related startups in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
May 6th
This article contains some useful information that I inevitably accumulated over the past few years, as a SR&ED consultant and as someone who has recently started a business. It might save you some time that took me to figure out all this. Good luck with your startup!
Various camps, startup drinks, green drinks
Startup entrepreneurs and [...]
Lessons for Bloggers vis-a-vis Financial Journalism
May 6th
Bloggers in the field of IT and IT marketing can learn from the lessons of financial journalists in how to develop a successful blog.
War of the Worlds or Perfect Storm
May 5th
I’d like to refer to a couple of articles that help to illustrate that the smart phone wave is more than just a cool new gadget, but the collision of powerful empires.
War of the Worlds: RIM invented the smart phone market, and we’re proud as Canadians that a Canadian company is an innovative leader [...]
United Breaks Guitars – Understanding Social Customer Service
May 3rd
United Breaks Guitars – Understanding Social Customer Service
I have been on this quest to understand Social Marketing and Business and how the two meet.
I had a slight epiphany tonight while re watching the Dave Carroll video, “United Breaks Guitars”.
While we know that Dave was approached after the fact by United [...]
RIM BlackBerry OS 6.0 too Little, too Late?
May 2nd
RIM presented OS 6.0 at WES 2010. Is RIM’s Blackberry OS 6.0 too little, too late?
MicroSkills and macro changes
Apr 29th
About 250,000 immigrants arrive to Canada each year. Most of them settle down, and find jobs, and many of these jobs are in the IT (I’d say even most of these jobs are, or were, until recent ridiculous changes in the occupation list came into effect, but then I am an IT person myself, so [...]
Social Media A CIO View
Apr 28th
Social What?
Social Media, Social Networking, or Social Business as I prefer to call it. The name itself doesn’t really matter but the end goal is clear, for business users the ultimate goal doesn’t change, impact to the bottom line. The dot com era taught us that the models may change but the fundamentals of [...]
The Holy Grail to the Knowledge of Everything: Wolfram/Alpha
Apr 28th
A discussion on the holy grail of the Knowledge of Everything. Is this SkyNet (The Terminator, 1984)?
facebook do we still trust thee?
Apr 28th
I use facebook. I was late to the party and started only a year or so ago.
But my posts and any information that I place have gotten fewer over the last six months as I simply am not sure I trust facebook. I enjoy communicating with my friends outside of email, but as fb tries [...]
Chapter 5 – CIO to Marketing Guy
Apr 26th
This will be my final posting on this journey topic, not because it’s done but because I am now getting into the tree’s of this, what I learn will refine and change, part of that I want to keep private, other parts aren’t germain to this story.
As a wrap up here are some of the [...]
Chapter 4 – CIO to Marketing Guy
Apr 26th
Chapter 4 is all about my first lesson on social marketing.
When I began this journey I thought there were 2 types of marketing; email and social
Reality there are numerous, commonly divided into;
Email Marketing (Push)
Adword Marketing (Pull)
Social Marketing (Pull)
We are all familiar with email, or the spam it creates in some cases. There are many sub [...]
