by davenelsen | Oct 8, 2014 | Uncategorized
I read this morning that Marriott was fined $600,000 for blocking Internet access. Hooray! Click here to read about it. But it got me wondering how much China would owe. As I write this, I’m on one of the fastest trains on the planet, moving at exactly 304 km/h (over...
by davenelsen | Aug 2, 2014 | Social Media for Business
Have you ever seen the cartoon that might best be titled “What the customer needed?” After much Googling, as far as I can tell it first appeared here (a site now defunct). I’d really like to use this image with official permission (if it’s...
by davenelsen | Jun 29, 2014 | Social Media for Business
A few years ago, a friend gave me a satirical poster that said, “Blogging: Never have so many… said so much… to so few.” In fact, companies that blog get an average of 55% more web traffic than those that don’t. Here’s why. Most people use Google as their search...
by davenelsen | May 22, 2014 | Social Media for Business
People typically think of social media as a talking tool. Indeed, the word media implies creating content. However, it doesn’t have to be our content. What about their content – our customers and prospects, our employees and partners? In business, we can listen to and...
by davenelsen | Apr 16, 2014 | Uncategorized
We live in a world of accelerating change. Ray Kurzweil, the respected futurist, predicts that by 2045, we’ll experience a 1,000,000,000-fold increase in what he calls “human-machine knowledge” relative to 2010. That’s hard to conceptualize but looked at another way,...
