Shared Spaces Briefing, Jul 14

A great article that all CIOs, IT managers, and tech savvy marketers should read. Bottom line: Nessicity adversity are both mother's of invention. Locking down software and tools, like internal blogs or company blogs, is not going to help in the long run. The people thinking outside of the box by tapping into these technologies…

Telecommuting is one of the fastest growing ways to work from home. Both the United States and Canadian governments are encouraging telecommuting as a way to give workers more control over their working lives, reduce traffic, and reduce pollution. While you can just set up a home office and start working from home, there are…

GMail is truly a Google coup. I like having the extra e-mail address and I do think the interface and technology is really cool. I think techies/geeks/Neterati love being in select groups…I love private beta tests. You really get to feel like you're helping make a product better and when a friend uses the tool…

Not how to be sticky, but how to join and connect people Photo by Sam Cat This is something that I grapple with on a daily basis. My job, as you can see, is content marketing. As an much as I can say I’m a storyteller, scrivener, writer, or creative content constructor (just made that one up),…

“If you build it, they will come.” That was definitely the mantra of the online world for the first few years. Then, people became obsessed with building traffic to their sites. Which makes sense if you're revenue model depends on advertising, but for many of the sites I used to work on if we succeeded…

The note about Groove is interesting. Most folks do forget that when you're at the local hotspot/cafe sipping your latte, reading your e-mail, and sending out information to your co-workers, those signals can be intercepted and misused. I'm making the jump to wireless myself soon, but I know that I'll be using a good amount…