Brian Oberkirch
Brian Oberkirch, a web entrepreneur based in Louisiana, joins Chip to talk about the high-tech startup environment outside of Silicon Valley.
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Stop worrying and start doing
A consistent theme I see in working with my clients is fear about possible negative outcomes of changes in their business. They worry about missing out on revenue if they focus their agency on a particular niche instead of being all things to all people. They worry about losing clients if they push back against…
Clueless is as Clueless Does
Here’s a good one. Wendy Davis of MediaPost says that Rupert Murdoch is “clueless” for wanting the names of Wall Street Journal subscribers on the Kindle. She rolls out the phrase “tone deaf to the privacy concerns” as it regards the News Corp leader.
You Shouldn’t Be All Digital All the Time
At a dinner I attended last night in Washington, DC, one of my tablemates said that since I was “Mr. Digital” that I shouldn’t really need to come to DC every week since I could just use video conferencing. Now, I certainly do use video conferencing. And conference calls. And 1-on-1 calls. And email. And…
When It Comes to the Cloud, I’m Torn
Are we really headed back to the future? With all of the talk of computing in the cloud — including an expectation of a major announcement this week — are we truly destined to go back to the days when there was little horsepower on the desktop and all the computing was done at a central location?
Teaching an Old Dog Old Tricks
My early web experiences were all UNIX-based. Back in the 1980’s, I started using the text-based Internet using UNIX boxes. When I got to college, I used it even more extensively. After I graduated, the World Wide Web came on the scene and I surfed the web from Windows computers, but I created web sites on UNIX machines. But for most of the past decade, I’ve been Windows-centric with my web servers. Until now.
10 Causes of Sloppy Email
I get a lot of email. And a lot of that email reflects pretty poorly on the sender. Some of the emails I receive wouldn’t even make the cut as amateur ransom notes. They are often laden with misspellings or typos. Frequently they fail to make a succinct point. They routinely seem to be disorganized…