March 2010

Marketing Transformation? It’s Messy

March 31, 2010

Lately I’ve been struck by the messy, unin­tended con­se­quences of the wrench­ing changes that the prac­tice of mar­ket­ing is going through. One such con­se­quence is how hard it has become to get a big pic­ture view of what’s going on in the mar­ket­place, where your best oppor­tu­ni­ties might lie — what­ever mar­ket your busi­ness or […]

Tagged as: marketing automation, marketing transformation

Revised on June 4, 2010

Ringtones at Work

March 17, 2010

Ring­tones at work: what does your ring­tone selec­tion say about who you are? Is it appro­pri­ate for use in a busi­ness set­ting or pro­fes­sional context?

Tagged as: business ringtones, ExecTones, iPhone, personal branding

Revised on March 31, 2010

Responding to Guest Blogger Requests

March 9, 2010

It’s been a curi­ous 24 hours. First, snow falling on daf­fodils and cherry blos­soms (our first of the sea­son, here in Seat­tle). Then, 2 peo­ple emailed me, hav­ing found my blogs, to inquire about con­tribut­ing posts for this blog and my per­sonal blog. The requests, while flat­ter­ing, caught me off guard. They made me real­ize I […]

Tagged as: blogging policies, social media policies, WordPress contributors

Email Still Matters for Communication Purposes

March 8, 2010

As a prac­ti­cal indi­ca­tor of social media adop­tion, I’ve been look­ing for signs of how Twit­ter is used by peo­ple within my busi­ness net­works, and in par­tic­u­lar, by my clients. My non-scientific research sug­gests that email, phone calls, or in-person meet­ings still dra­mat­i­cally out­weigh the use of Twit­ter in the busi­ness com­mu­ni­ca­tions and inter­ac­tions I see on a day-to-day basis. What’s inter­est­ing about this is that my clients are all in the high-tech arena

Tagged as: business communications, client interactions, email communications, Twitter adoption

Revised on June 4, 2010

Solving Windows 7 RC Install Issues on Bootcamp

March 8, 2010

In a prior post I dis­cussed my prob­lems try­ing to replace Win­dows 7 Release Can­di­date on a Mac­Book Pro under Boot­camp. This week­end I took another shot at it, hav­ing found some posts that sug­gested my issues might be related to disk frag­men­ta­tion. You may have to defrag your disk first Thanks to these posts, I […]

Tagged as: Bootcamp, Snow Leopard, Windows 7 RC

Revised on June 4, 2010

Windows 7 RC on a Mac? Beware!

March 2, 2010

If you’ve been run­ning Win­dows 7 RC on a Mac­Book Pro in a Boot­camp par­ti­tion, beware. The path to rein­stalling Win­dows 7 is fraught with prob­lems, has­sles, risks and time wasters. Quick sum­mary, if you don’t want to read the rest of this post. After sev­eral hours of effort each day, over sev­eral days, I […]

Tagged as: Bootcamp, Mac OS 10.6, Windows 7 RC

Revised on June 4, 2010