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11 social media tools that put entrepreneurs on the right strategic path
May 31, 2011 | Productivity, Career, Top Career Posts
My latest post for the Harvard Business Review was inspired by a trip I made to Romania earlier this spring. I visited Bucharest and Cluj as part of the School for Startups, a highly successful UK-based entrepreneurship program created by Doug Richard. S4S is running...
Making art from a lifetime of data
May 30, 2011 | Family
This weekend Little Sweetie asked whether she can have my computer when I die. I had to explain that she is unlikely to want it: by the time I die, my current computer will be useless. "But how about this," I suggested instead. "When I die, you can have whatever...
Klexi is the cheap and easy way to transfer video to your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch
May 27, 2011 | Lifestyle, Toolbox
If you're heading out of town or to the gym with your iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch, and you want to load it with videos for the road, you've got a couple of options for filling it up with those yummy, legitimately downloaded .avi and .mkv files (which I'm absolutely,...
Creating a family social media policy
May 26, 2011 | Family tech policies, Top Family Posts, Top Posts of 2011: Personal, Family
The ongoing conversation in our home about how to use social media — and in particular, how to do so in a way that is both safe and enjoyable for our kids — has helped us evolve a de facto social media policy governing how we engage with social media as a family. I decided it was time to go from de facto to actual, recorded policy. Use our policy as a jumping-off point for your own.
10 ways academics can use Twitter
May 25, 2011 | Career
M.H. Beals has a terrific overview of Social Media for Researchers and Academics, based on a one-way workshop held at the Institute for Research and Innovation in Social Services in Edinburgh. Her post provides a great roadmap of the different ways academics can use...
The social media obituary
May 24, 2011 | Self
His real break came as a stuntman in the Hollywood movie “On the Beach,” about survivors of a nuclear war, which was filmed in Melbourne, his hometown, in 1959. It starred Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner and Fred Astaire. “He watched Gregory Peck do 27 takes and thought, ‘A...
Who would you be without the Internet?
May 23, 2011 | Self
Without the internet I wouldn't be able to write. In the realms of pre-internet media, one either comes to the publisher/editor/gatekeeper with mad skills and gets published, or he gets a generic pink slip with a one-line apology. You can't use this system of...
5 reasons to blog like it’s the last night of the world
May 20, 2011 | Self
I worry a lot about the world ending. My scenarios usually involve some kind of catastrophic climate change, pandemic virus or global economic meltdown followed by civil collapse. This intermittent tendency to fret over various doomsday is something I try to deprive...
140-character lessons in how to live your real life online
May 19, 2011 | Self
Your online relationships, conversations and creativity are as real as anything you do offline. That's the message I delivered last weekend at Northern Voice, Canada's leading blogging conference. My talk, titled Stop Apologizing for Your Online Life, jumped off from...
The dangers of relying on Facebook and Twitter authentication
May 18, 2011 | Community
If you're not going to talk about me to your friends, I don't want to know you. That's the message that your web site is sending if you only accept registrations from Facebook and Twitter users. You can see what I'm talking about at Pinterest, a social network for...