Starting up another new book project
Well, we put the new curtains up in time for Thanksgiving, and now we're slowly rolling through the rest of the holiday season. Fortunately, I have an adequate supply of my favorite single-malt Scotch...
View ArticleOkCupid demystifies dating!
Here's a great post by my old friend Mike Minelli that appears in GigaOM. Even if you're out of the dating game, it's still fascinating to read about how and why people choose dating partners, find...
View ArticleCheck out 'The Transformational CIO' blog
My friend Hunter Muller has just launched a new blog, The Transformational CIO. The blog supports and extends the content in his new book of the same title. I urge you all to read the blog, and buy the...
View ArticleFor diehard NY Rangers fans ...
If you're a diehard Rangers fan, check out this clip with footage from the 1971 Stanley Cup playoffs ... amazing!
View ArticlePlease join us in Beantown for a conversation about B2B social media strategy
Dave and I will be leading a workshop on B2B social media strategy at this excellent event in Boston next month! We look forward to chatting with you in person! And let's not forget beer! We look...
View ArticleSee this exhibit if you're within driving distance of New Haven
Yesterday we drove up to New Haven to see an exhibition of portraits by Sir Thomas Lawrence at the Yale Center for British Art. The exhibit and the paintings were absolutely amazing. The power of his...
View ArticleIs this microphone on?
Hey, it's great to be back in the saddle. For some reason, the network connection between GoDaddy and my ISP, Optimum Online, was glitching out somewhere, and as a result, I couldn't access my blog for...
View ArticleLast week Hartford, this week Boston
Had a wonderful time at the CT Business Expo in Hartford. Enjoyed chatting with lots of very nice people who seemed really interested in learning about social media. A big "thank you" to the excellent...
View ArticleSeeing the colors of numbers ...
Jolie O'Dell recently posted in Facebook that she sometimes has a difficult time understanding people on the phone. Her post sparked a lively conversation, and it reminded me of the strange way that...
View ArticleGetting ready for writing by reading
My dad once told me that writers write. As a professional writer, I would add that writers also read. Whenever I begin a new writing project, the first step always involves reading -- and lots of it....
View ArticleBig data vs. big reality
Quentin Hardy's recent post in the Bits blog of the New York Times touched on the gap between representation and reality that is a core element of practically every human enterprise. His post is titled...
View ArticleWriting about big data and its impact on the real world
Way back in October 2012, mere days before Hurricane Sandy filled our basement with five feet of water, the nice editors at O’Reilly Media asked me to write a white paper on the emerging architecture...
View ArticleStorytelling, content or IP? From a writer's perspective, they're all the...
I remember when I first heard the word "content," I was happy because it suggested that people other than storytellers were taking storytelling seriously and that beancounters were consciously...
View ArticlePlan B: Instant Karma and Lesson Learned
Yesterday, I sent emails to several friends and asked them to post comments about my Culture of Big Data white paper. What happened next is either a case of instant karma or a life lesson learned. Or...
View ArticleNew O'Reilly Report: When Hardware Meets Software
The nice folks at O'Reilly (Tim, not Bill) Media have published "When Hardware Meets Software," my incisive, mildly humorous and entirely free white paper about the Internet of Things. It's a good...
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