Just as I was about to write this blog, I remembered that I needed to check my Facebook news feed for new posts from friends and family. I also needed to send a text message to one of my colleagues about an upcoming project and get his feedback. I absolutely had to check my Outlook calendar for any appointments I might have scheduled for today. Oh, and I was going[...]

Mark Zuckerberg and his colleagues at Facebook believe that by openly acknowledging who we are and behaving consistently among all our friends and business associates we will help create a healthier society. Of course, his business depends on this philosophy. In his book, The Facebook Effect, David Kirkpatrick says that Zuckerberg believes, "that if we live in an ‘open and transparent' world, people will be held to the consequences of[...]

Tech journalist David Kirkpatrick's book, the facebook EFFECT, published this year tells the inside story of the company that he says is connecting the World. In 2006 Kirkpatrick wrote an article for Fortune magazine titled Why Facebook Matters. Since his first interviews with Mark Zuckerberg, Mr. Kirkpatrick has been given complete access to the Facebook operation and its key executives.

Kirkpatrick believes that Facebook is more than just another social networking[...]

Social media is taking over the world. It should be obvious to all of us that there are lessons that we should take away from this phenomena. The question is: What are those takeaways?

Tanveer Naseer, a self described business strategy coach, writer and overall good guy put up a post on his website titled, What Twitter Can Teach Leaders About Effective Communication. The four lessons he lists that we should[...]

American businesses have been suffering from a lack of long term vision for some time now and it has carried over to our government. In a recent article in CEO Strategist titled "Being Current and Relevant", by Dr. Rick Johnson, Dr. Johnson points out, "Businesses that are focused on developing sustainable long term market share growth during tough economic times often have a longer time-horizon and a broader set of[...]

In his most recent book, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, Daniel Pink says that most private and public organizations haven't figured out what really motivates us. Mr. Pink points out in his book that, "Most of us believe that the best way to motivate ourselves and others is with external rewards like money - the carrot-and-stick approach."

Weekly and daily meetings can seriously cut into your work day and your productivity. Do you feel like you waste far too much time sitting in meetings that don't accomplish anything other than keep you away from doing what you were hired to do? Have you noticed that more times than not these meetings seldom produce a constructive outcome? If you work in corporate America or for any large company, you know exactly what[...]

Believe it or not, there are a lot of people out there making money off their YouTube videos. In fact, some of those videographers have made enough money off their YouTube videos to quit their day jobs.

YouTube has set up partner programs for their contributors that not only pay them for every 1000 views, but also pay them a small percentage of the advertising revenue that their videos produce.[...]

If you didn't care for Facebook's recent site layout changes and policies in the past, you may not like the new features Facebook will be implementing in the coming weeks. Facebook wants to become your web browsing partner and be part of the functionality of every web site you visit in the future.

Facebook's new personalization features and plugins allow users to interact with their favorite web sites and share information[...]

Mark Fiore, winner of the 2010 prize for editorial cartooning, and the first online-only recipient of a Pulitzer discovered that being a Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist didn't guarantee that his iPhone app would be approved by Apple. You can check Mark's work at http://markfiore.com.

In a recent story by Rob Pegoraro in the Washington Post,  Apple rejects Pulitzer winner's iPhone app because it ridicules public figures, Pegoraro talks about the[...]