Reading Time: < 1 min I try out a lot of productivity tools over the course of a month, and most come and go pretty quickly. If they stick around in my workflow for at least a few weeks, I like to share them here. That’s the case with Workona. Here’s a quick intro video that they created for it […]
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Time-shifting and Clubhouse
Reading Time: 2 min One of the greatest things that technology has created is the concept of time-shifting with much of our entertainment and communication. Back in the day, you had to tune in at a certain time to hear Paul Harvey. Now you can listen to Mike Rowe’s podcast, but listen whenever it’s best for you. Back in […]
I’m going to miss Facebook
Reading Time: < 1 min From the title, you might think I’m leaving Facebook, but I’m not. At least not yet. Time will tell. When I say that I’ll “miss Facebook”, it’s from the sense that it’s possibly the last social network that will have essentially everyone on it. A few years ago, I could look up almost anyone — […]
It’s people, not platforms
Reading Time: < 1 min In the book We’re All Marketers, author Nico De Bruyn makes a pretty clear statement that a lot of people seem to miss: To be an effective marketer, you need to recognize that it’s people, not platforms, that influencing today’s buyers. Put another way, Facebook isn’t going to help your company — Facebook users are. […]
Why social media moderation is so hard to fix
Reading Time: 2 min It’s easy to point fingers at social media moderators for doing a poor job, or for being unhappy with a decision from a “fact checker”, but things aren’t as easy as they seem, for two big reasons. It’s a brutal job First, being a social media moderator is an awful job. While we see things […]
Who do you trust?
Reading Time: < 1 min I was at a business event last year (pre-COVID) and an interesting thing happened. A few of us were chatting, when a woman came up to us with a great idea: “Let’s pass our business cards around, take photos of them, and share them on our social media accounts!“ While I’m happy to recommend businesses […]
Social media is vapor
Reading Time: 2 min If you’re reading this post in 2021, there is a good chance you found this post via social media. If you’re reading this at some point later, you probably didn’t — at least not from a social post of mine. My posts about it have come and gone, just like millions of other posts every […]
Who is “the media”?
Reading Time: 2 min We hear quite a lot about “the media” leaning to one side, or the “the media” not promoting a particular event, but who exactly is “the media”? Increasingly, it’s us. This is media. This post can be found in Google, or perhaps you found it via a social media channel. It’s media as much as […]
Why Seth Godin doesn’t tweet
Reading Time: 2 min Seth Godin doesn’t use Twitter. He has a Twitter account for his blog, but it’s just for his team to share his latest posts. He’s made it clear before that he doesn’t have a problem with Twitter, and thinks some people make great use of it. In terms of his time and his focus, it’s […]
Seriously, start your own blog
Reading Time: < 1 min While I’d love to see some kind of open-source, distributed social network start up, nothing is on the immediate horizon. However, we already have the tools in place to mostly do it ourselves. Here’s some thoughts about how we could make a better social network by starting our own blogs. If you need help getting […]