First up this week are a few updates and some posts worth highlighting: This one from Robert Dempsey at Dempsey marketing Are You Choosing To Be Successful? (I’m mentioned in there so had to mention that). I also did an Insight from the Latest comScore Report. Tablets rule once again. This weeks shows: I had [...]

I was recently interviewed by Robert Dempsey of Dempsey Marketing. We talked about how to think and operate like a media company. Here’s a few things we cover: Why should you think like a media company? What happens when you think like a media company? Why thinking like a media company makes sense. What is [...]

Has Facebook finally made changes that most users simply do not want? Do people really not care about Privacy at all? That’s what we talk about on today’s show– has Facebook finally jumped the shark? If you haven’t heard the news here’s the high level overview of the features Facebook is releasing: Timeline – basically [...]

  Did you see this story on a new tech that has the potential to store your data for 1000′s of years? Here’s the news from CNET: On traditional optical disks, information is “burned” into the disc by creating light or bleached spots where the data is the contrast between light and dark spots. However, [...]

  Yes, I’m a little late to bring up a filtered media discussion. But changes in media and the landscape of social is increasingly going from machine driven filters to person driven filters. Think Google+ and Circles. Instead of going the Facebook approach of deciding who you care about more Circles allows you to self [...]

What is the future of content? What is the future of media? To market and connect with your audience today but in the future I believe understanding content/media will enable you to successfully transition in this new era we find ourselves in. Today we start a multi-part series on The Future of Content. In a [...]

We go in deep into a post I saw at MarketingProfs on solving customer complaints. Something the author Guy Winch said really caught my attention: As a psychologist who also has a private practice, I was always struck by how often patients would discuss consumer complaints, how frustrating they found them, and how helpless they [...]

After news leaked that several Apple app developers had been threatenedwith a patent infringement suit for technology commonly used in in-app payment processes, the company in question - Lodsys – is explaining its side via a new blog. Last week, the Columbia School of Journalism released “The Story so Far“ (PDF here). For news zealots, this is tantamount [...]

Through the help of social media and good site architecture, small business owners have come a long way in creating sites that not only rank, but also engage users. However, it’s no secret that one area where SMB owners still struggle is in the world of paid ads. More here. Local online media is set [...]

In part 2 of the future of content we cover why content is not king, aggregation, and curation. In part 1 we covered what is content, why we need to rethink the definition of media, and the publishing world we live in today. So why is content not king? Content is not king because it [...]