2010

2 Tech Tips to Simplify Your Online Life

December 31, 2010
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Mastering your productivity isn’t always about the latest apps or newest gadget but becoming more effective and efficient with the tools we already use. It’s time to evaluate 2 technologies you use every day and are probably getting out of control. Email and Passwords. Master Your Email with 3 Folders Take back control of your [...]

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Streamlining your Productivity

December 29, 2010
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Is your life hectic? Are you struggling to keep up with appointments and tasks? It’s a New Year, time to get organized and be more productive. How I Got Here My life has gotten exponentially more crazy in the past few years I had to find system to keep everything running smoothly. In addition I’ve [...]

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Discussing Quora

December 27, 2010
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Today I had the excellent opportunity to discuss the social question and answer site, Quora, with my friend Rob La Gesse (@kr8tr /LaGesse.org ). Rob shared a few thoughts on the service yesterday and I wanted to get deeper into his perspective and take on the service. In the conversation we cover What is Quora? [...]

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Understanding Your Exposure in a Social World

December 21, 2010
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Embracing social networking means your privacy is dead. While some will bristle at this notion, I contend if you spend long enough using social platforms you will ultimately reveal some if not all of the following: Where you work Where you live Who you hang out with Yes, you can use privacy controls and moderate [...]

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Social Bookmarking Must find its Relevance

December 17, 2010
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Delicious couldn’t find the value in social bookmarks and their competitors aren’t showing much promise. Social Bookmarking as a business model is broken until they discover the coming “relevant web”. It’s time for these services to understand the value of a save vs. the value of a share. (Sorry for the sniffles tonight) Discover Diigo [...]

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Field Notes & Observations

December 14, 2010
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A jumble of things I’m watching and reading that won’t fit into 140. Things I’m watching Hashable – from the @hashable twitter bio “post meaningful connections with people and see who else in your community is connecting.” I first saw this service back in the fall but it’s gaining traction in my network of friends. [...]

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A Call to Contribute

December 11, 2010
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The influence of peer recommendations is difficult to quantify or to overstate. The growth of review sites as well as the impact of social media marketing can be directly linked to the priority we place on the opinions of people in our online communities. People-powered endorsement engines have become so ever-present that we can take [...]

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Stuxnet hints at the future of cyberwarfare

November 16, 2010
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The year is 2015 and you want to take over or destroy a country. Let’s examine the options- Launch a Nuclear Attack – Effective but has the drawback that retaliation will thrust all of mankind into obliteration. Build a traditional Army – Expensive and time consuming or… Use cyber warfare to disrupt your enemy’s financial [...]

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