When it comes to Facebook, should we just be grateful we can communicate at all?

As most of you by now know, Facebook has the ability to translate one’s sentences or content from one language to another.  Public content can now easily be transferred into the user’s language of choice.  How?  Facebook’s feature uses the newly integrated Bing translator. Anyone who has played around with the Facebook translations or, for that matter, web translations of any kind, know...

Facebook responsible for drugs/alcohol, antisocial & agressive behaviors….lock up your kids!

The article below landed in my Inbox earlier today as one of those generic emails, likely from something I inadvertently subscribed to.  It’s not the article is bad, it is simply that the statistics it is based on seem way off to me and I hear my old stats teacher in my head telling me it is very difficult to link a behavior to an outcome like this article does;   Facebook Is Turning...

Is social media a bubble about to burst?

I am reprinting an article I read online yesterday reporting that the social media bubble is about to burst.  Now, although I do think this group of companies is at an all time high (I work in a technology based incubator and there is suddenly a lot of interest in certain companies that have already been around for awhile), I can only judge by own actions and the actions of those close to me. ...

Social Media Mistakes

This blog posting is one that has been bouncing around my head for a long time now. In my opinion, relatively few companies are using social media well and many are using it very badly. Small businesses receive an overabundance of information on social media strategies. Anyone who goes to a lot of networking events or events for entrepreneurs knows what I am talking about; there is...

Too much information to keep up with!

A topic I think about frequently is information – specifically, too much information. When I look at my Twitter, day after day, there are so many articles, so many relevant articles, they all seem important, facts and stories that I need to know to run my business efficiently. Does anybody feel that they have a good handle on what is going on in the world, day after day? If so, I have a...