Staying On Top While Avoiding Information Overload

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,...

#Tags… They’re It!

There’s a powerful, new way to organize the information in your professional and personal life. It called tagging. It’s a radical departure from using hierarchical folders… within folders… within folders… whether in electronic (on your computer) or physical (in your...

Converting Your Followers to Customers

I see many business people who engage in social media programs simply because others do. Further, they make no attempt to quantify the value of such initiatives and therefore tend to underinvest. In turn, social marketing brings few new customers to the company and in...