My Latest HBR Article on the Benefits of Friction
In an excerpt from my latest book, I describe how one company used analytics and Agile methods to largely solve a thorny problem.
Category: Social Media
Why I Barely Tweet Anymore
From ten times per day to ten times per month.
Big Data and Hype: Where Are We Now?
Checking in on its current adoption.
The Vast Data Sources of the IoT
Think that only human beings generate a boatload of data? Think again.
What I Learned Writing for Inc.
Lessons from my year as a scribe at an über-popular site.
Why is Google resurrecting Plus? In a word, data.
The data wars are far from over.
Why I Despise the Term ‘Influencer’
The term implies that influence is a binary, not a continuum.
Message to LinkedIn: This Is the 21st Century
Thoughts on the long-awaited fix to an anachronistic app.
Contingency Planning
What are you doing to hedge your bets?
The Foolishness of Relying on Social-Media Numbers
A little yarn about just looking at specious statistics.
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