My life was pretty much transformed when I met the Mac. I discovered technology I could relate to the year the Mac was born, when the two halves of my brain were finally united in a Macintosh 128K. Yesterday, I learned of Steve Jobs’ death while sitting at my generations improved Mac, watching a Twitter feed. [...]

Talk about mining the best of the world’s collective spirit! My lovely has been enchanted by Pinterest for some time. She has been devouring collections of all sorts of things people have collected there. This delightful little community is simply “a virtual pinboard. collect the things you love.” Well. Talk about enchantment. In an “Animal Kingdom” pinboard, I [...]

I had every intention of blogging today to start my week off perfectly. But I can’t really concentrate on marketing technology (beyond my already scheduled work today) because my dad is in the hospital up north. He came down (pretty suddenly) with pneumonia, and has to hang out in the hospital for a couple of [...]

If you want to see a great chronicle of the power of a post or a Tweet, check out how quickly this little mention from @amberkarnes - in defense of artist Stevie on the etsy site tru.che, vs. Urban Outfitters - played out. Amber has about 1900 followers on Twitter, and blogs over at “my aim is [...]

I thought it might be interesting to share a graphic showing how much investment “advanced” companies (as measured by answers to a questionnaire about their efforts) spend on social media efforts. This is from a very reliable source, Jeremiah Owyang, of the Altimeter Group. (Subscribe to his blog.) In his post (linked above) Jeremiah defined the characteristics of [...]