Why New Twitter is Important

September 16, 2010

Ev and Biz, those Silicon Valley celebrities who invented Twitter in 2006, scored a big news win last night with the release of a complete re-design of the Twitter.com site. Now we can not only see who is following us and who we follow more clearly, but we can do on the site what the […]

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Entrepreneurship Resources in the “Wild West” Arizona: Right Here, Right Now

September 14, 2010

One thing about Arizona: it is kind to entrepreneurs if you know how to work it. Here in Arizona, the Kauffman Foundation’s Fasttrac programs for entrepreneurs have taken root and grown in the Phoenix area over the past decade. We have some of Kauffman’s most successful programs, although some people still don’t know they exist! […]

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Why Become an Entrepreneur?

September 9, 2010

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, I will say it again: if you want to create jobs, you have to create new companies.   And why not?  It makes perfect sense. As young companies grow, they inevitably need people. Often they are started by one or two people, who can’t do everything. Young […]

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Google Instant: It’s All About Fast (Updated)

September 8, 2010

Image via CrunchBase Early in the summer, Google invited me down to its campus to test a new product. Excited and sworn to secrecy, I went and did it. Although I am still sworn to secrecy about what goes on Google’s usability testing labs, suffice it to say I was fascinated. And although Google graciously […]

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Social Media and the Customer: Continuing Series

September 7, 2010

Image via Wikipedia Here’s another in my posts about how brands who don’t understand how empowered customers have become through social media are making big mistakes. The customer may not have VRM (Vendor Relationship Management) yet, but he has so many other tools at his disposal that he can create quite a firestorm for a […]

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Ten Dirty Secrets of a Short Sale

September 2, 2010

Image by TheTruthAbout… via Flickr I am doing a short sale on my house. I already went through the loan modification process, which took two years and was successful ( I had great people at Aurora that I found through social media channels). However, the second lender, the holder of my HELOC, (Citi) refused to […]

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Building Your Brand

September 2, 2010

Loic le Meur, a friend from Silicon Valley (well, more accurately France) and the creator of Le Web and Seesmic, has done a series of videos on "building your brand" that look as though they will be very helpful for entrepreneurs. This is the second one in the series. I'm putting them here so I […]

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Our Food Supply: The New Frontier

August 30, 2010

Nothing highlights the need for a change in our food production processes more than the massive egg recall of the past month, and the fear that the entire food safety system in America is broken. A spate of books and films, such as Food Inc. and the entire corpus of Michael Pollan’s work, has tried […]

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Flowtown Extends Reach of Marketing Programs

August 26, 2010

Flowtown’s “coming out” this week gives me another occasion to write about the  use of new social tools like Twitter and Facebook to manage relations with customers and potential customers. Now that brands are becoming more aggressive users ot these social tools, there’s a danger that consumers will be inundated with marketing messages and unwanted advances, […]

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Protecting Your Online Privacy

August 24, 2010

The remarkable growth of social networking has resulted in millions of people now using these social media services to share information with friends and as an alternative platform for private communications. With an abundance of free tools like Facebook and Twitter, the barriers-to-entry in the social-media realm are so low that anyone can join. Social […]

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