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For the new BlackBerry CEO, which is it, 4, 5 or 6 things he must or must not do?

On January 24, 2012   /   Blog, Featured, Fun, Innovation, Leadership, Technology   /   2 Comments
For the new BlackBerry CEO, which is it, 4, 5 or 6 things he must or must not do?

Everyone by now must know the shake up that’s happened at RIM (mother and father to BlackBerry)? If you don’t, go here for a catch up. This morning I opened my RSS Reader to be presented with these articles as the first three that had been assembled as

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Let my people go surfing, and they’re still surfing

On December 6, 2011   /   Blog, Featured, Innovation, Leadership, Technology, Trends   /   1 Comment
Let my people go surfing, and they’re still surfing

5 or 6 years ago I stood in a book store in Hawaii in the business section. I noticed a book called ‘Let my people go surfing‘ and bought it. I didn’t open it, didn’t read the back cover, but figured any business book with a title

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Stuff you probably didn’t know about Amazon.com – I didn’t : )

On December 2, 2011   /   Blog, Featured, Infographic, Innovation, Social Business, Technology   /   Leave a comment
Stuff you probably didn’t know about Amazon.com – I didn’t : )

There was a time when Amazon.com didn’t make money. It was born in 1995 (website wise), and if I remember right, there were years and years of people wondering how this online store was going to become profitable. There were many commentators who said it’d never be

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How to do better searches using Google

On November 29, 2011   /   Blog, Featured, Social Media, Technology   /   2 Comments
How to do better searches using Google

Mashable posted this infographic last week from HackCollege.com on how to improve your searches on Google. There are some really good tips for those that could use a little more improvement.

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Free Education! Do they really know what they’re doing?

On November 18, 2011   /   Blog, Featured, Innovation, Social Business, Technology, TED, Video   /   Leave a comment

Time is carrying a post suggesting Sal Khan is the modern Andrew Carnegie: This bonanza of educational opportunity recalls an earlier era in American history, and another man determined to make learning available to all: the steel magnate and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. Between 1886 and 1919, he

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All business and commerce will eventually be Social business and commerce

On November 16, 2011   /   Blog, Featured, Future World of Work, Social Business, Social Media, Technology, Trends   /   Leave a comment

Once upon a time there were online businesses and brick and mortar businesses, and a few got to play in both spaces. It was acceptable to pronounce you were either one or the other. And life was good. When you take a look at the infographic below

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The State of MXit – And it’s not a small State at all

On November 11, 2011   /   Blog, Featured, Innovation, Social Business, Social Media, Technology, Trends   /   Leave a comment

MXit is the biggest South African Social Media platform never spoken about when people talk social media. Just in case you’re reading this and you’ve been living in a cave: MXit is a FREE online mobile instant messenger and social network. Shop, play and explore a multi-million

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Whichever way you cut it, Justin Bieber gets Social Media. Or maybe it gets him?

On November 10, 2011   /   Blog, Featured, Fun, Generations, Social Business, Social Media, Talent, Technology   /   Leave a comment

I’m guessing you’ve seen the movie? Never say Never. Who hasn’t? Especially if you have kids. And even more especially if those kids happen to be of the female variety. I went in kicking and screaming, and came out a raving Justin Bieber fan. Very simply because

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Newly connected younger workforce, is already influencing coworkers

On November 9, 2011   /   Blog, Featured, Future World of Work, Leadership, Social Business, Social Media, Talent, Technology, Trends   /   Leave a comment

Yesterday I posted some information from the Cisco global research report on today’s younger workers. Here’s an infographic pulled from their report. Makes for some interesting thinking. The highlights of the report are social media and mobility (flexibility in time and space) What’s interesting to add is that it’s

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What the pace of change looks like when you condense the last 3000 years into 60 minutes

On November 3, 2011   /   Blog, Featured, Innovation, Technology, Trends   /   Leave a comment

As part of my deep dive into creativity this month, one of the books I’m reading is ‘Out of our Minds: Learning to be Creative‘ by Ken Robinson. One of his chapters deals with the pace of change, and therefore the need for imagination and creativity. As

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