A little lighter fare for this weekend. For people like me who are into their mobile devices, their selection of apps reveals a bit about their personality. I used to get excited to try out new apps, which come out daily. But now, figuring out what screen to put them on stresses me out! There…

As information sources become more and more numerous, it’s becoming more and more challenging staying on top of things. When I was a kid, my dad would grab the morning paper and he’d read the headlines while I grabbed the sports section for the box scores. And that’s all I had to do before heading…

One of the things I help clients do is figure out how we are going to measure success. For some clients and projects it’s growth in traffic, for others it’s e-commerce sales. Those are relatively straightforward to report on and there’s no shortage of metrics there. But increasingly, my clients are looking for new ways…

Talk about a hot-button topic! Highly influential bloggers pride themselves on building a following by being truthful and objective, increasingly rare qualities in a world of “advertorials” and non-branded sites that blur the line between honest to goodness content and marketing collateral. It’s fascinating how it is so divisive. As the social world gains momentum,…

Since the outset, there has been furious debate as to whether Twitter can become a sustainable business. How could a company run for over 2 years without any revenue or a sustainable business model? It defied the business strategist side of me, especially when they they turned down a $500MM offer from Facebook. There was…

When the topic of social media comes up, Facebook is often one of the top networks that comes up. And with good reason. With over 175 million users, it would rank 6th globally (between Brazil and Pakistan) if it were its own country. As the network has grown exponentially over the past couple of years,…

We’ve all been there. Sitting in a meeting or on a conference call listening to a self-proclaimed social media expert talk endlessly about how brands are all networked to consumers. We’re presented with nice slides with various geometric shapes with sparse text. Highly conceptual, they help set the stage for relative newcomers to understand the…

A while ago, I said that there are no such thing as social media experts. We are all students writing the curriculum for other students. This might be an exaggeration, but it’s pretty clear that this is a new world and the rules are being frequently written and re-written. Just as the initial dotcom explosion…