I read an article today about how a 16 year old office worker from Essex was fired after she described her office job as ‘boring’ on her Facebook page. Details were passed to her employers after she allowed colleagues access to her page, Miss Swann said, adding that she was not given the chance to…
With all the craziness in the economy and (justified) outrage at CEO and financial sector compensation packages, I’ve been thinking about income distribution and the wage gap – and how it relates to younger professionals who are used to working in a faster leaner environment. Most people look at CEO and higher up executive compensation…
I was reading Seth Godin’s post today about whether ‘marketing is evil’ or not. His answer was that while marketing itself isn’t usually evil, market-ers sometimes are, and that can lead to bad things. While I’d agree, I’d also take a step back and try to look at the business or marketing and advertising. One…
With all the discussion of the changing (and subsequent resetting) of the Terms of Service on Facebook I’ve been thinking about our digital lives and who owns all this content. And what are the implications of that? Let’s face it – if you have a Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or any social network account,…
When was the last time you received bad service? Whether its customer service or a long wait on hold to speak to a live person or having to go through 5 people via phone until you reach someone who can help you with your issue? When’s the last time you had that happen? It probably…
Another Brilliant post by Seth Godin. Can’t wait to see him at The 99% Conference in April. Here’s the first two, full 5 at his site (don’t want to rob his traffic). Every question you ask is expensive. (Expensive in terms of loyalty and goodwill). Don’t ask a question unless you truly care about the…
This morning I got an email from Rach which was an automated message through Kiva.org talking about its services and mission. For those of that don’t know (including me up until a few hours ago), Kiva is a micro-lending site that specializes in raising loan funds (read: not donations) for entrepreneurs in developing countries on…
Read a great post from Krista Neher today about a tool called ‘Twitterhawk‘ (read full post here). This is a tool that crawls Twitter looking for tweets about a topic of your choice then will automatically sent an @reply out from your account to that poster. Krista lays out some great points with regard to…