Jerry Yang’s Future at Yahoo
Kara Swisher of the Wall Street Journal discusses Jerry Yang’s future at Yahoo — and her ideas for potential successors should he decide to step down.
Kara Swisher of the Wall Street Journal discusses Jerry Yang’s future at Yahoo — and her ideas for potential successors should he decide to step down.
Today, I came across a post from popular new media marketing blogger and entrepreneur Chris Brogan titled “Profit from ‘Pick Your Brain’ Requests.” As I read the headline, I thought to myself: “Right on! I love it when people pick my brain because it often gives me great ideas, too!” Unfortunately, that’s not what Brogan’s…
Yesterday, I tweeted that it was nice to work in a global business because that meant that I could email my international colleagues “guilt-free” and be productive while leaving my U.S. team alone. Now, I realize I’m in the minority of people who finds relief in being able to do work on the Thanksgiving holiday,…
LinkedIn provides a valuable platform for individuals to build and nourish professional relationships. I was an early adopter of the service and regularly recommend it to recent graduates as a useful tool to help build their careers. But it’s far from perfect. Although it can help users to surface information about professional connections within their networks, there…
I was reading a thread in a private Slack channel this morning about ROI for a particular marketing activity. One person made the point that people costs were being overlooked in the calculation being discussed. This is true of many things in the agency business community. Too often I see discussions with agencies and with…
Mark Goldenson, a co-founder of a failed startup called PlayCafe, has a guest post at VentureBeat where he discusses lessons learned from his experience. The whole column is worth a read, but here are a few things that popped out at me as being worth further comment.
I have been a devoted user of the Thesis framework for WordPress for some time now. I have purchased licenses to use their software for myself and my clients. In fact, this site is built on Thesis, as are most of the ones I have built over the past several years. I routinely recommend Thesis…