Curated Stories June 22, 2010

When “Groundswell” came out, I was frequently asked the seemingly innocent little question “How open do I need to be?” It was asked in the face of managers and executives being asked to engage with cust…

The key to getting your boss to put the stamp of approval on your telecommuting dreams is an excellent proposal. Sell your boss on the benefits of getting you…

Despite newspaper share prices seeing a 380% increase in the last year, don’t be swayed by the perceived recovery. The only way for newspapers to survive is by investing resources into innovation online.Exp…

It was previously impossible to easily synchronize your iPhones notes between devices, but yesterdays iOS4 firmware update adds a feature capable of saving not…

In the fall of 2008, Facebook tried to buy Twitter. When that fell through, Mark Zuckerberg’s company spent the spring of 2009 cloning Twitter features.
But all that’s over now.
What happened?
In an interview w…

Compared to most cell-phone software upgrades, Apple’s updates to its iOS (née iPhone OS) are low on suspense and uncertainty. You don’t need to sit around wondering if your device will run iOS 4, and when…

Google’s web-based document editor can now convert the text inside your PDFs and images into text you can edit.
When you upload a file to Google Docs, you’ll see the option to “Convert text from PDF or i…

In recent months, Facebook and its young CEO have received a bevy of criticism from users and press following the company’s decision to automatically opt all users into its Open Graph initiative. In spite of…

iOS 4′s addition of folders should make home screen navigation simpler. But Lex Friedman complains that the feature’s implementation needs work.

If you’ve never heard of Huffduffer before, you’re in for a treat. If maybe you’ve played around with it before but never quite grokked it, this may help shift your thinking a bit. Simply put, Huffduffe…

Apple will release the new iMacs at a Special Event within…

CWmike writes With Mondays iOS 4 upgrade, Apple patched a record 65 vulnerabilities in the iPhone, more than half of them critical. However, the first-generation iPhone and iPod Touch, as well as the much newer…

Last week, Google rolled out a fun new feature that lets users interact with Google Apps via command line. Naturally, our friends at LifeHacker geeked out with…

These are just notes. Some of the links may be incomplete but the basis, I think, is strong.
Theory: The more you can find out about your culture, the more you’re capable of moving upward. This is buffered by…

Apple has found a new way to get people to agree to online tracking: withhold applications from them if they don’t. This week Apple is launching a new iPhone. And with that comes a new operating system and the…

By now most people will have seen the images of incidents of crime in San Francisco as elevation maps so it was only a matter of time before folks decided to play with other kinds of data – say for example o…

Zacks.com submits:
by Dirk van DijkIn May, Existing Home Sales fell 2.2% to a seasonally-adjusted annual rate of 5.66 million. However, sales were up 19.2% from extremely depressed levels of a year ago. Sale…

Over the past several months, Foursquare has had a number of impressive stats for a startup. Some of them involved SXSW, some involved overall check-ins numbers, some involved deals signed. But at the end of t…

Networking is critical for success. Yes, online social networking has changed this, but meeting in our protein forms still cant be beat. Its amazing how some people still get this all wrong.

I love networking…

I just came back from walking the dog in the park. While there, we met a guy. We stopped and chatted. He told me his story. I now feel exuberant.
His story contained joy and tragedy; points of recognition; coin…

The technology icon stands before a crowd, holding in his hands a prototype that embodies his vision for the future of computing. It’s a touch-screen tablet that is thinner than a magazine, has all-day battery…

Over the next few weeks, LinkedIn will be rolling out a complete overhaul to its Groups feature to make creating and following conversations easier and more engaging.When you visit a revamped LinkedIn Group (c…

I’ve been working with people and helping them figure out their personality styles for years, but I’m brand-new to blogging.
So I did the logical thing and started researching. How to write an interesting…

Yesterday we discussed the trick to growing a Facebook fan base — to place the like button everywhere, get folks to like everything, as treat your fan base like an email list. Now that you have the initial s…

If youre a good sales person, youll know how to promote your most valuable product — your ability to sell.
You should prepare for a sales interview in the same way youd prepare for a sales call, Allison Nawo…

If there’s anything that a recent ear ache taught me, it’s that searching for answers on the Internet can be a trying task at times. The world is full of people – all of them doctors in their own mind – and the…

See a photo of Caryn, her bio, and Part 1 of this QA.

QA with Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, Question 2:

Q: The storytelling movement seems to be growing explosively. Why now? What is it about this moment in hum…

When Elizabeth Stark co-founded the Open Video Alliance in 2009, it’s safe to say that most folks thought that the words “Web” and “Open” were synonymous.
Stark is an Ivy League optimist. She’s the…

The Foursquare-Google Maps mashup FourWhere has just added support for Gowalla and Yelp. The data from the three services is then displayed on a Google Map.While this in and of itself could be helpful and cool…

We’re big fans of easy-to-use blogging platform Posterous, which has seen fast growth, revenue and impressive funding since its launch in 2008. Over the past six months Posterous has steadily added nearly a d…

I’ve been thinking this for a long while: Amazon won the ereader war. They were first to market – not officially, but in terms of mindshare, they offer a software package that is compelling on almost every…

Google Voice is now available for everyone (provided you have a U.S. phone number).The service, which started life out as GrandCentral, acts as a unified phone number. It can be used to make free calls to the…

Today, Salesforce.com’s Chatter collaboration application is now available to all Salesforce.com customers. First announced back in November, Salesforce Chatter was rolled out to beta customers in February….

Annotations is a feature coming soon for Twitter that allows developers to attach arbitrary bits of metadata to tweets. I’ve written about this idea several times, most recently on April 9.
How Twitter can…

Salesforce’s foray into injecting social features into the enterprise world, Chatter, is finally open to the public after four months in private beta. Announced last November, Chatter leverages what Salesforce…

Once a PPC account is set up and running, a good account manager is always looking for ways to improve results to better reach the account’s marketing goals. One such way is to test different types of ad me…

ATT has a lucrative exclusive for the iPhone in the United States.
But that has proven to be a double-edged sword. While the iPhone has
helped ATT acquire lots and lots of customers, it has also
strained the co…

What Does Open Leadership Look Like?This content from: Duct Tape Marketing
Marketing podcast with Charlene Li (Click to play or right click and “Save As” to download – Subscribe now via iTunes
My guest fo…

Chattering classes
Salesforce.com is today expected to release its Facebook for businesses against established enterprise collaboration software from Microsoft and IBM.…

One of the fastest ways to improve your writing skills is to free yourself from the most common English mistakes: things like exchanging less with fewer, misspelling its as it’s, or placing c…

How important is it? Is it so important you need to interrupt everyone, every single one of your customers?There are only
a few signs on my way through security, yet there, on the biggest of all, is a warn…

How Medicare’s Payment Cuts For Cancer Chemotherapy Drugs Changed Patterns Of Treatment

The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act, enacted in 2003, substantially reduced payment rate…

We introduced you recently to Customer 2.0, the savvy, vocal and socially engaged buyer who favors online communications to discuss products, trends and personal issues with both peers and businesses–across m…

Last week I had the pleasure of presenting at PRSA in New York (thanks Deirdre!) and while my original presentation was supposed to be around community building for PR professionals I decided to mix things up a…

Have you been watching the World Cup? I’m a football fan, so I don’t count, I would be watching anyway. I could not help but notice, however, that since we can track conversations about #worldcup and the var…

Companies are realizing the value in “brands as publishers” and are making real commitments to the creation of content in their online marketing mix. It’s no longer enough to provide fundamental features…

Our upgrade did not go smoothly – and we’re not alone
Unsurprisingly, there are reports of woes among iPhone users when upgrading to iOS 4 and we even have first hand experience of this here at Reg Hardware. On…

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Apple: Here’s How to Opt Out of Our Targeted Ads (But Not Our Location Tracking) — Apple is rolling out its new iPhone operating system, which means that it is also rolling out…

I Am Not A Brand: http://bit.ly/99NRwUThe killer pull-quote: We can, if we group together, fight off the weenuses and hosebags who want to turn the Internet into a giant commercial…

One of the quirks of being a full-time consultant is scheduling one’s day with multiple clients in multiple locations, with multiple technology environments. Just as one might consider who they are meeting with…

Lifehacker’s Adam Pash has five really sweet little tips for getting the most out of Google new Command Line tool, which allows you to manage a wide variety of Google services from the command line.

Quickly…

Padding on to my comments about mobile WiFi being a must-have for mobile consultants, another indispensable product I have turned to in recent months is Tungle, or more specifically, Tungle.me, which lets me op…

I release all content on [chrisbrogan.com] under the Creative Commons license, which means that you can share and reuse my information within reason and with some attribution back to the original post.
One gre…

If you have never been to a Catalyst Conference, you need to go. I can’t be more direct than that. You will thank me later.

Catalyst is the premier conference for anyone who is serious about leadership. The…

The backlash against “personal branding” has begun. I saw it first in this post by Yvonne in BlogHer. Now you can feel the line begin to whip with Manifesto: I am Not a Brand, by Maureen Johnson, also in…

Safari 5 introduces a new feature that allows you to view a simplified, distraction-free, easier-reading version of a web page by clicking on a “Reader” button in the address bar of Safari. Reader provides…

“Life could be so sweet on the sunny side of the street.”
– McHugh/Fields –
(This review originally appeared on the Thoughtwrestling blog, June 8, 2010.)
I think it’s safe to say most people would rat…

One of the most basic premises of marketing is that you need to be able to articulate the consumer need that you are solving. The problem is that sometimes this need and your solution for it is a complex story…

The biggest obstacle standing in the way of companies’ embrace of social media isn’t the tools, or measurement confusion, or even being able to make the time to do it day-to-day. The biggest obstacle is cor…

Last week, I asked you to take a test to see if you’re a word nerd. This week, I have another test for you. And it’s a doozy.
The concept is “selective attention.” I don’t want to spoil it, so watch t…

Filed under: iPhoneIn a strange twist with what appears to be a security issue, users of Google Apps who set up their accounts using the Microsoft Exchange settings (aka ActiveSync) may find that their iPhones…

Mashable’s Spark of Genius series highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, see details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpar…

Location-based computing is a trend ReadWriteWeb has been tracking for some time. But Apple’s update of its privacy policy this week emphasizes location’s arrival in mainstream of consumer communications.

“To…

Worth downloading – Stats show #socialmedia integration w/ email substantially increases ctr – http://bit.ly/bG7V3w

The tech world is buzzing about iOS 4, the latest version of the iPhone operating system that Apple released today. And rightly so — it’s an improvement over the previous version in every way. In fact, once…

Want to see how regulatory capture works in action? Congress is apparently gearing up to start the massive process of reforming telecom/broadband laws later this week, and the communications companies are read…

Warning: This is a very complicated and math heavy post. It is best read slowly in small doses to ensure you can fully digest it all. I will also point out that I’m not a math or analytics expert so what you…

On his excellent MBAStoryteller site (yes! more MBA storytellers!) Nabil Laoudji, who’s in the Sloan MBA program at MIT, posted this 2006 video by Josh Weinstein.

Weinstein’s video demonstrates brilliantl…

Companies continue to struggle with Social Media – especially when it comes to rules, policies and guidelines.

There are three guidelines that should be a part of every Social Media guidelines or policy – espe…

In searching for a new job recently, I’ve seen many companies disregard the users of their career website pages. Most clutter this section of their websites with mission and branding statements, meaningless pho…

Following reports suggesting Microsoft has been offering incentives to bring developers onto the Windows Phone platform, Chillingo has confirmed the practice and offered reasons for refusing. The developer, whi…

iPhone-to-Mac FaceTime video calls might not happen until next year — because Apple may be saving it as a big feature for Mac OS X 10.7, expected in 2011, Daring Fireball’s John Gruber writes.Join the conversa…

Social Media Marketing sure isn’t easy. It takes time to get to know the space you’re in, to network with like minded users, and to develop a strong content strategy that works within your niche and ta…

Apple’s new privacy policy contains a small new paragraph of big importance: it gives the company license to store “the real-time geographic location of your Apple computer or device” and share it with �…

If you don’t have an air conditioner and can’t take the heat (or you just don’t feel like running yours), here are five DIY ideas to stay cool this summer….

Almost exactly a year ago, we wrote about a draft version of a paper from Felix Oberholzer-Gee of Harvard and Koleman Strumpf of the University of Kansas concerning the impact of weaker copyright enforcement on…

Last week, as you may have heard, we held out Techdirt Saves* Journalism event. It was actually quite a lot of fun, even if we didn’t “save” journalism. JD Lasica, for PBS’s MediaShift, wrote up a fantastic s…

Quora, a QA service founded by early Facebook employees that has generated quite a bit of buzz, has launched to the public. The service first made its debut on January 4, 2010, but was previously restricted to…

Facebook has been wooing the UK developer and media community over the weekend and today in London. It’s hard to believe that three months ago the social network was being pilloried in the media here for being…