I would give you this piece of advice for how to keep up with new technology – don’t try. Use the technology to subscribe to people that you trust – and follow their lead.

I came across this word today while attending (virtually) a session “What Comes Next For the Web.”
Apophenia is the experience of seeing patterns or connections in random or meaningless data. The term was coined in …

We are at the beginning of a long rewrite of laws as a direct result of the rise of the Social Web.
Early this week, the FTC posted updated guidelines governing paid endorsements and sponsorships (first …

If you’re company is building an approach to Twitter – great. If you are focused on using it to meet business objectives – great. If you aren’t thinking about how Twitter can make everyone in your organization smarter – you are missing what I think is the biggest opportunity.

In the 80s and early 90s Total Quality Management (TQM) was all the rage.   As the idea moved from concept to execution – TQM divisions were set up within large organizations.  Then a funny thing …

How you set up your Facebook account has a lot to do with how you use it and how much privacy you need – Just remember, there is no substitute for exercising discrtion and never posting things that you don’t want to go public. You never know….

Here is another in my ongoing Forbes series, Social Sense and Sensibility. The idea is to help organizations understand how to properly leverage social tools for business use.
If you have any questions you would …

When I wrote “A Corporate Guide for Social Media“  for my Forbes column this single statement drew the most attention:
Build your policies around job performance, not fuzzy concerns about productivity.
If your employees are using Facebook …

This is a new video series that I have begun with Forbes.  I have long wanted a larger forum to discuss the issue of social media etiquette.  While the term “etiquette” often conjures an image …

I recently began experimenting with a new web publishing service called Posterous.   I love it.  Here is why:
Posterous begins with something nearly everyone knows how to do (email) and uses that as the basis for …