When someone says the phrase “best practices,” I won’t mind if one of your eyelids goes a bit droopy and your chin slowly starts to nod toward your chest. I…
Read MoreYear: 2009
Content, community, and context in internet marketing
In the early ’90s, the hottest screen saver product around featured flying toasters, which has since come to symbolize the triumph of marketing for a product that no one really…
Read MoreTwitter’s August ’09 in Review
Hello everyone. It’s been a while since a Frank Friday has rolled around but it looks like we are back on schedule. So how has your holiday / vacation time…
Read MoreThe Internet’s calling, you need to step up your game
Complacency is deadly. From an evolutionary perspective, every creature with a brain stem knows this intuitively. Yet time and again corporations, that most evolved creature of human organization, seem to…
Read MoreGoogle & Facebook could tip enterprise software scales
Enterprise software might not seem like a hotbed for innovation, but it soon could be. While we weren’t looking, born-on-the-Web companies such as Google and Facebook are poised to rewrite…
Read MoreA month off the grid
For those of you just tuning in at home, this is my first day back at work after a month off. I’ve never taken a month off since I got…
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See you in September
This is my August monthly newsletter, and just happens to be the 700th Biznology blog post since it’s inception. But it’s also going to be my only blog post of…
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Some “what ifs” around the new Microhoo
Sure, there are a million opinions about the announcement this week of the Microsoft and Yahoo! becoming joined at the hip (in a very businesslike way). Fortunately, it is a…
Read MoreHow mad can you be when it’s free?
One of the odd things about getting so many services for free on the Internet is that we might feel obligated to be grateful even when something doesn’t work as…
Read MoreAmazon stumbles with Kindle 1984 flap
If your company is like most, you worry a lot about how you are coming across on the Internet. Most companies that weren’t born on the Web come off a…
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