According to a recent report by Cisco, one in three college students and young professionals ranked the Internet as important as food, air and water. These under-30 folks don’t have a working memory of Life Before. Like television, it’s just always been there. But it […]
Diane Johnson and I are in the same age bracket so for those of you who don’t remember when there was no Internet, you may snicker at the following stretch. But believe you me, when it comes to persistence, Diane Johnson has it all. Recently […]
Image via Wikipedia “Never write anything down that you wouldn’t be proud to show a nun,” my mother once advised me. Curious advice for a then seven-year-old, but she saw the sparks of my word-smithing passion early. To divulge or not to divulge. That is […]
Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. We hear your siren’s call. You are the social media triumvirate and in less than a handful of years, you have altered the landscape of our modern-day world. In the face of your trendy existence, slow takes real courage. It is not […]
BNet’s Jessica Stillman featured this brilliant video today by Rob Cottingham. It is a fun look at the social media universe throughout 2009. It also shows how much can happen in just a year. Happy Viewing! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SPWTyv6zBk]
The power of slow is the antidote for information overload. Snap off your TweetDeck, enjoy a drink on the porch, savor the setting sun. Social networking can become an obsession if you let it. It can also be a useful tool, if you know how […]