5 Ways to Make Your Blog Posts Outstanding

Image via Wikipedia Are your blog posts just “okay”? Want to make them great? If so, keep reading. A great blog post respects the needs of three distinct entities. It educates and informs your audience (your subscribers and visitors), optimizes for the search engines and sufficiently energizes you so that you do a good job … Continue reading 5 Ways to Make Your Blog Posts Outstanding

How Businesses Are Unleashing Their Employees’ Social Media Potential

Image via CrunchBase We know it’s a brave new world for consumers and brands. If United breaks your guitar, or your Maytag doesn’t work properly, you can take on the company that messed with you via social media — and you may well win. But technology empowerment works both ways. Consumers can take a stand … Continue reading How Businesses Are Unleashing Their Employees’ Social Media Potential

Steve Jobs: Master of Irony

I'm not sure if it still is, but at one point in time this commercial was the most popular of all time... Now, ironically, Robert Wright of the New York Times says Steve Jobs has become the 'Big Brother' that Apple warned us about in 1984..."Jobs stands accused of what in Silicon Valley is a … Continue reading Steve Jobs: Master of Irony

The Samsung Moment…

Image via CrunchBase ...is everything the iPhone should have been!"In case you haven't noticed, the Google Android dam has broken. For almost a year, HTC was the only manufacturer to offer handsets with the operating system, but in the past month, Motorola and Samsung almost fell over each other to offer Android smartphones of their … Continue reading The Samsung Moment…

Au revoir iPhone!

Yesterday I said goodbye to the iPhone and along with it, Apple as well. While I was working on the AGCO social media project, my good friend and partner on the project David Sauter of Envano had been kind enough to let me use an iPhone [I think he was secretly trying to bring me … Continue reading Au revoir iPhone!

No surprise here!

Image via CrunchBase Apple is dominating the smartphone market and Google is giving them a run for the money with the Android OS... "comScore has released a report on the state of the US mobile market from September to December 2009, and it shows that the recently established trends of Android and iPhone growth don’t … Continue reading No surprise here!

7 tools for the mobile journalist

The e1evation/Envano team has done a great deal of work over the past six months on building the 'near perfect' toolkit for the mobile journalist. It comes from our award-winning work covering trade shows for AGCO. Here's an interesting post on tools for the mobile journalist. Read the author's take and then you can have … Continue reading 7 tools for the mobile journalist

Moms and smartphones…

They're not just for CEO's anymore..."Smartphones may have started as productivity tools for top executives, but they're quickly finding their way into the hands and purses of "power moms," a.k.a. the CEO of the household. As smartphones become easier to use and in many ways more useful, more women, including busy moms, are buying them … Continue reading Moms and smartphones…

There Is No Such Thing as Intuitive Technology

"When the Apple Macintosh first debuted, it was thought of as the first computer that did not have or ever need a manual. In fact, it did need a manual, and an ever-growing one at that. The computer that doesn't need a manual of some sort has not yet been invented. In the case of … Continue reading There Is No Such Thing as Intuitive Technology