Month: November 2012

  • Could NFC make the business card really useful?

    I have a thing about business cards. These little rectangular pieces of stiff paper or card seem to me to have outlived their analogue usefulness in today’s digital world. What are you supposed to do with one when someone gives…

  • A fix for Windows Live Writer to ‘see’ a WordPress theme

    I’ve used the Windows Live Writer content creation and publishing tool for blog posts and pages from Microsoft since it first appeared in beta form in the mid-00s. In my experience, it is the best offline blog editor for Windows…

  • How social media supports Israel’s military and political goals

    The current conflict between Israel and the Hamas government in Gaza includes a contemporary element that shouldn’t really surprise anyone – the use of social media in support of Israel’s military and political objectives. 21st-century tools for propaganda purposes, some…

  • Social media – the game-changing channel for B2B

    How relevant is B2B in social media marketing? was the embracing question behind a lively panel discussion and audience conversation yesterday in which I was a participant. It was the most worthwhile discussion on the broad topic of social media…

  • The prime hurdles of social business

    The notion of an organization being a “social business” is one that’s been talked about for the past few years, often focusing on social media tools and channels  – social networks, Twitter, blogs, etc – that people can use to…