Social media training: climb aboard now. This is your chance! There’s a modern parable that goes something like this. A man’s house was in a rapidly flooding area, and as the water was starting to rise the National Guard came around in a truck asked him to evacuate. He said, “No, God will save me.”…

Thanks to the encouragement of some close friends who do a fair amount of their work in social media and related fields, the annual SoMeBizLife Conference is coming back on Saturday, April 16, and I hope you will be there. This post is a special appeal to social media pros to come to this event….

Early on in this whole Internet thing, I worked for an organization where the prevailing notion was, “I’m not so sure this Internet thing is going to last. It probably isn’t worthwhile for us to jump in.” I saw the potential and jumped in personally, even though the group I worked for didn’t see it….

I was delighted that the Central Bucks Chamber of Commerce invited me to write an article for the recent technology issue of its magazine W4. Printed below is the text of the article. If you’d like to see the Chamber’s full technology issue with some great articles, please click here. People and Technology “Think about…

News item, December 2012 — Dead whale needs to be removed from beach in New York. News item, November 1970 — Dead whale needs to be removed from beach in New York. With all due respect to departed marine mammals, there’s an object lesson that I can’t help but think can be applied to social…