Independent Thinking Blog
Independent Thinking Blog
Welcome to the Dark Side
There are two seemingly diametrical trends taking place right now: dark social and live everywhere. This post looks at the first one. Dark sharing was a term coined to describe the shares we can't track -- e-mailing an article to a friend, texting a URL, DMing a video...
The Value of You
How much is your work worth? This isn't an idle question. We all want to be recognized and compensated for the value we bring to the table and the results we generate for our bosses (or our own businesses). It's about value. And money. I've written before about how...
Your Brand is Live
Sometimes I think the Borg have arrived. In case you're not a Star Trek fan, the Borg are a race of cybernetic organisms with a hive mind and a nasty habit of saying "resistance is futile." Then they assimilate you. Facebook is getting to feel a bit like that. I don't...
How the Brainbelts Will Save America
Welcome to the era of brainbelts. A brainbelt is a term coined by Antoine van Agtmael and Fred Bakker to talk about the transformation of traditional rustbelt cities in the U.S. and Europe into centers of global innovation. van Agtmael said in remarks at the Brookings...
Mobile is the New Tech Ecosystem
About 20 percent of my Web site traffic comes from mobile. The number -- and that it isn't higher -- isn't really surprising. Mobile may be the new tech ecosystem, but much of my traffic comes from business people, most of whom still spend a lot of the day in an...