Blog Profile / New Comm Biz
| URL : | http://www.newcommbiz.com/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Business & Finance | |
| Posts on Regator: | 600 | |
| Posts / Week: | 3.1 | |
| Archived Since: | August 19, 2009 | |
Blog Post Archive
2011 Social Media Predictions Report Card
A few years ago I started this crazy habit of making and writing down my predictions for the coming year. I do two sets of predictions, one a serious thought out view of the 5 big trends over the next 5 years, the other is a half serious list of 10 things I think would [...]
Teach Yourself to Program: Resources for Kids and n00bs
Have you ever wished you knew how to program but didn’t know where to start? Maybe, like me, you’ve actually picked up a book or two and even asked your programmer friends to give you a few pointers but got so frustrated you quit. Over the last 7 years I’ve made a dozen failed attempts [...]
There is Nothing New in Social Media Marketing
#LeWeb was a great conference. It brought together entrepreneurs, developers, businesses and marketers from all over Europe and the US. They even had a theme song to go along with the SoLoMo theme of the conference. (Warning, it will get stuck in your head.) I saw new startups and heard from established startups like Evernote and Spotify, [...]
The Future of Work in a Social Local Mobile World
The theme of #LeWeb is SoLoMo, a phrase I absolutely hate. It stands for Social, Local, Mobile. But while I hate the phrase, there’s no doubt about the power of the combination of those three things. Yesterday I noticed a trend among several of the speakers and that was about the changing nature of work. [...]
#LeWeb is the Anti #SXSW
Yesterday was the first day of #LeWeb. After getting up at 4:00 I made it through a good portion of the day but left early to go check into my hotel and ended up crashing for the night. The wifi at LeWeb was intermittent and the wifi at my hotel was much rumored but so [...]
I’m Going To LeWeb. What One Question Should I Ask Attendees?
Tomorrow morning I’ll be catching the Eurostar to Paris to attend #LeWeb 2011. I’ve never been but LeWeb has been on my to-do list for years. Apparently it’s the big conference here in Europe. The conference runs Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday and I’ll be there for all of it. You can see the whole, impressive [...]
Location. Based. Startups. Does It Matter Where You Start Your Company?
Gowalla was just acquired by Facebook. This sounds like a great exit. Being acquired by Facebook sounds really cool. But for the investors, this wasn’t a home run. It wasn’t even a base hit. Apparently the investors will only get back a fraction of the money they put in. Don’t feel bad for them, it’s [...]
And The Geeks Shall Inherit The Earth: Get Rid Of Your Tech Biases
I’ve worked in tech for a while now and it absolutely amazes me how worked up people get over things like operating systems, programming languages, and applications. The way some people hate or love certain brands is a bit scary. I’ve seen people turn red in the face, screaming at people because someone made some [...]
Why Your Brain Is Trying To Make You Less Creative And How To Fight It
Have you ever struggled with a problem you can’t seem to find a unique (dare I say creative) solution to a problem at work? Do you keep coming up with the same ideas and the same tactics for every initiative? I doubt there’s a CEO in the World who thinks there company has enough creativity [...]
2012 Is The Beginning Of The End For The Non-Social Business
In early 2010 I wrote a post about the 3 types of social media strategy. You can just bolt social media on to their existing marketing strategies, or you can optimize social media throughout your company to maximize your existing strategy or there is the elusive approach of maximizing your business for social media. This [...]
How Not To Be A Social Media Expert Anymore
I’ve always taken a certain level of pride in always being an enigma at any place I worked. I don’t like to be categorized or pigeon holed. Because of that, this last year presented a bit of a problem for me. I have worked very hard to establish myself as an expert in the emerging [...]
Some Observations About 2011?s Most Shared Articles On Facebook
Facebook isn’t for friends, it’s for families. Facebook just released the most shared articles on Facebook in 2011. It’s interesting to look into the collective consciousness of 800 Million people. I love that Facebook is sharing this kind of data and am very curious what other kind of data they have and what can we get access [...]
What If You Don’t Know What Kind of Work You’re Passionate About?
Like Laura @lamiki I’m not writing about what I was supposed to write about today, maybe later. But since I don’t have cats to write about, instead I want to follow up on a post I wrote over the weekend. I got quite a bit of positive feedback on my last post about finding a job you love, mostly [...]
Gaining a Global Perspective
“That’s a very American point of view” I knew when I took my current gig in London working with our EMEA offices, that I had a dangerously American perspective on life and business. I’m frequently reminded of this in meetings when I say something overly optimistic, entrepreneurial or centered around the power of the individual [...]
Week 4 of National Just Write Month: Double Your Discipline
At the start of this month I challenged myself to write and post everyday this month. I have managed to post 26 consecutive days (28 days if you count the last two days of October), today will make 27 (30). In the last 26 days I have managed to write 30 posts, this is my [...]
The Paradox of Connectedness
I work with clients all over Europe, the Middle East and Africa. In some countries access to the Internet is ubiquitous. High speed connectivity isn’t even an issue. In other countries not only is access to the Internet sketchy, if available at all but electricity is spotty. Yet everywhere I go the standard of living [...]
Finding a Job You Love
This is a problem facing a lot of people. In fact this was a large problem before the recession hit, now it’s an even bigger two-fold problem. One because there are a lot of people out of work, that can’t even find jobs. Two because a lot of people have found “a job” but it’s [...]
I Am Thankful For The Bad Stuff
It’s Thanksgiving in the States and like all American bloggers I feel obliged to tell you what I’m thankful for, even though I’m not currently in the US of A. But instead of all the good stuff (of which I am blessed with in abundance) I wanted to pass on a lesson I was once [...]
Why You Can’t Get VC Funding For Your Start-Up
Yesterday I asked for help coming up with topics to write about and the question came from one of my high school friends about how to get VC funding for your start-up. As many of you know I used to be the Entrepreneur in Residence at Highway 12 Ventures, so I have some insight into [...]
I Need Your Help Crowdsourcing Blog Topic Ideas
I have just over a week left of “National Just Write Month” and I was sitting here trying to plan out the rest of my posts. I’ve been able to come up with a few ideas but nothing that I’m super excited about. I also have a dozen ideas sitting in draft form, but they’ve [...]