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IT Salary Survey Bunk
The Information Technology(IT) industry is schizophrenic to say the least. There are good people making low wages and nominally skilled folks making a killing. Since January is often annual review...
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10 Modern About Page Tips
While About pages may be timeless, the fact remains that the presentation and approach will continue to change. Since the world didn’t end and you’ve decided to leave Vault 21, the following are the...
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25 Expert WordPress.com Principles
You just want to start writing. The problem is all this other “stuff” to learn. While you can Google a few tidbits here and there, so many concepts are foreign that you can unknowingly go forward...
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Improve Your Worth in 2013
In mid January, James Altucher wrote a post for TechCrunch titled “10 Reasons Why 2013 Will Be the Year You Quit Your Job“. It was a tug at the hearts of technologists during a motivational time of the...
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Email Paradigm Shift
Yesterday the U.S. Post Office officially announced there would be no more Saturday delivery. Today, I’m announcing the slow demise of e-mail too. There have been numerous recent articles that half of...
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Lent The Press Release Forever
Ok. Maybe lent isn’t a verb, but I see it all the time. A Google Alert pops into my inbox on some keywords of regular interest. Unfortunately, it turns out to be an irrelevant press release across the...
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Personal Use Office 365
I often hear the same complaints: My ISP e-mail sucks. Maybe I should do that Carbonite thing to backup my files. A new copy of Microsoft Office costs how much? So let me give you an idea. Use Office...
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Ironic Belligerent Service Requests
These scenarios are fictional: A woman goes to the doctor. As soon as the doctor walks into the room, she immediately says “I’m deathly ill again. Can’t you do anything right?” A man calls his...
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After Midnight Recommendations
I stumbled across Eddie Obeng from a Technology Entertainment Design (TED) recorded presentation posted on LinkedIn. I’m always looking for new business ideas and evaluating presentation styles. After...
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Goodbye Microsoft Expression
1994 was when I first started playing with web pages and the forerunner FrontPage of the current Expression Web. HTML was primitive versus C or most database form generators and the look reminded you...
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Defiance Social Advisor
On April 2, Defiance launches on Xbox Live and the television series premieres on Monday 9pm Eastern on April 15th on Syfy. This ground breaking event will be the first ever interaction of gaming,...
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WPC 2013 Insider Perspective
WPC is the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, which actually started annually in 1997. This year was in Houston on July 7-11 with over 16,000 attendees and a focus on big data, cloud, mobility,...
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Ballmer and Microsoft Misconceptions
Earlier in the month, Forbes published 4 Popular Misconceptions about Microsoft - a much better job than my Microsoft Jolts The World in January. It was a solid piece about how the public is being...
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iPhone Not Recommended
A board member recently asked me “Do I recommend what type of smartphone for people to buy?” The answer was a low, but elongated No. The reason is that I might as well be trying to change people’s...
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Technology Expert Explains Why I Carry A Nokia Lumia 920
For about 10 months, I’ve carried the Nokia Lumia 920 – far before the Ballmer resignation and Microsoft restructure, or the Nokia purchase by Microsoft. If the public saw my phone, they would ask...
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Authorship: Does Your Baloney Have A First Name?
Does your baloney have a first name? How about a second name or even a picture? While Oscar Mayer started the cute kids singing about their brand in 1965, I’m still amazed that most blogs today just...
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Check The Requirements Forrest
The number one mistake in technology that’s made continuously is failure to check requirements. It reminds me of the line “Stupid is as stupid does” from Forrest Gump. In the simple rush to help in...
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Testimonials Are Contrived
Most marketing folks will tell you to have customer testimonials on your website, but testimonials have little value. How many news articles do you have to see about fake reviews? Some marketers...
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Obamacare Fails with Custom Code
The utopian concept of taking care of everyone is a great ideal, but cost and execution are the debate. One of the main business and technical problems is that Obamacare fails with custom code. It’s...
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Conan LinkedIn Influencer Overlord
The LinkedIn Influencer program is no longer taking new applicants, but Conan O’Brien apparently had no problems being accepted. As yet another example that celebrities live in an alternate reality,...
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