May 19, 2009

“Don’t Forget Your Day Job”
Note: I wrote this article for AddictedToSocialMedia.com (A2SM), an online blog that talks about how to get the most out of Social Media as a whole. A2SM has a series of luminaries writing for them and sharing insight on how to best use Social Media and how they use it. I was honored to be asked to contribute to their…
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May 11, 2009

Crafting Your Company’s Social Media Policy
A few weeks ago, I offered to help our Human Resources department create a "Social Media Policy" for my company. While my company didn't want to impose draconian restrictions on Social Media, HR felt that some rules did have to be created for the good of both the employer and employee. Our head of HR and I spent some time…
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April 20, 2009

Twitter Threats and Negotiations
The Age of Twitter is upon us. All hail the all mighty and powerful Twitter! But also, the age of innocence is gone. There are spammers galore, people who are "social media experts" who have only 8 tweets to their name, and really attractive and scantily clad women who earned $1500 in just 1 day of work. Wonder how they…
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February 3, 2009

Social Experiment: Twitter Dad Tuesdays #twitdadtues
This morning I had some interesting Twitter conversations with a few Dads who are on Twitter about how frustrated their spouses are with them at times. The conversations and threads were brought on by reading through this interesting article ("Moms Everywhere are Pissed Off") as well as from my own experiences trying to be a "technologist", a loving husband and…
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January 21, 2009

Twitter Begins to Overshadow Digg and Rightfully So!
We all know about the site Digg, right? It is a place "to discover and share content." Somebody (or you) submits an article or video or news item into the Digg "community" and if people like it, they increase the story's popularity by clicking on a "Digg button" which increments a counter. The higher the count of people liking it,…
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December 12, 2008

Using Twitter is like Fishing
I'm an on and off fisherman, mainly fly fishing; I worked in a few fly fishing shops in my youth (gasp, I'm not THAT old, should I say "youth"?). Also, recently I installed Flick Fishing for the iPhone and have spent numerous hours on my commute trying to hook fish. Well, that go me thinking. Since part of my job…
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June 16, 2008

Why Clouds Create Community
This is a re-post of an article I wrote on the GoGrid blog. Clouds are sexy right now. In this article, I tracked how "Cloud Computing" is becoming a hot, up and coming Google Search term. But why is it that there are so many new user communities that are conglomerating around "the cloud" versus other more traditional hosting concepts.…
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June 8, 2008

Ways to Track the Apple Developers Conference Live
Tomorrow will be a tough day on the net...well, not for everyone, just the people interested in what Steve Jobs will be saying at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) Keynote. The WWDC runs from June 9-13 in San Francisco and promises to be full of explosive announcements. We already know that the 3G iPhone will be revealed, that there…
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May 26, 2008

NASA Phoenix Lander, the Web and Social Media: A Different Experience
Years ago, when space travel was new, people stopped everything just to watch a space ship take off or land or someone walk on the Moon. Those were and still are, HUGE achievements. We have yet to send another manned mission to the Moon and with a huge Federal deficit and a world-wide recession looming, it's a miracle that space…
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April 23, 2008

Web 2.0 Expo – Day 1 – Quick Comments & HighTechDad meets iJustine
Web 2.0 Expo kicked off today in San Francisco. The company that I work for (ServePath) decided last Friday that we needed to be there as an exhibitor, mainly because our newest product, GoGrid, is perfect for startups and Web 2.0 (3.0?) companies. After a quick scramble of sign printing, stunt creation (look for the guy circling Moscone on a…
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September 27, 2007

iPhone: Replace your 3rd Party Apps with these Equivalent Web Apps
Now that Apple has so generously removed my ability (for now) to install, run and delete applications on my iPhone with the release of firmware 1.1.1, I really miss them. It will only be a matter of time before someone figures out how to break the new encryption and get our 3rd party apps up and running. So, in the…
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September 12, 2007

iPhone: Brief Reviews of ApolloIM, MobileChat, Summerboard, MobileTwitterific, Mines, iBlackjack, and MobileToDoList
It's nice that, for now, Apple seems to be "okay" with allowing third-party applications to be installed on the iPhone (although now there seems to be some backtracking by Apple with a new statement that "software updates will most likely break" native apps). Despite this, the movement is growing, especially with the combined forces of Nullriver Software and PXL Package…
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