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Three Useful Research Tactics I Learned Last Week
I’m always trying to figure out how to get more out of the tools I find online. I spend a lot of time figuring out new ways to discover good sources of information on a wide variety of topics; setting...
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A Look Behind the Curtain at Techmeme
In late 2005 former Intel developer Gabe Rivera launched what is now TechMeme, a powerful semi-automated “meme tracker” that discovers the hottest conversations in the tech blogosphere every 5 minutes....
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Click This Button To See Into A Twitter User’s Soul
Twitter isn’t just a short messaging service – it’s a major communication platform that can be sliced and diced for all kinds of competitive and market intelligence research. And news writing. And who...
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How to Create Sub-Groups to Maximize Your Online Effectiveness
Over at ReadWriteWeb, where I spend most of my time, we write mostly news and analysis but some “how-to” type posts. Below you’ll find one of my favorite how-to posts I’ve written lately, originally...
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Techonomy Resources in the Works
It’s midnight and I’m in Lake Tahoe, ready to cover the first Techonomy conference about using technology to solve the world’s big problems. There’s an incredible group of people participating. I’ll be...
View ArticleA Startup I’ve Now Used Every Day for the Past Week: Nsyght
Nsyght is a clever service with a terrible name (it’s hard to remember) and stock photo on its home page, but don’t be fooled – it’s really useful. I wrote about it on ReadWriteWeb last week under the...
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Corporate Social Strategists on Twitter: Looking at the Numbers
This weekend marketing analyst Jeremiah Owyang assembled a fabulous list of nearly 200 people who run social media strategies at corporations around the world. It’s the second year he’s done so and let...
View ArticleTracking Startup Incubators: Three Helpful Resources
A few weeks ago ReadWriteWeb’s Audrey Watters wrote up a report ranking the top 15 startup incubators and accelerators in the US. I asked the virtual assistant program FancyHands to build me a Twitter...
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Why Klout is Really and Truly Valuable
Social media scoring system Klout did a big refresh tonight and it is clearly broken because it said I am less influential than it said I was before. But is it worthless? Is this a meaningless...
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A List of Checklists for Startups
tl;dr: Checklists for Startups I’m falling in love with checklists. Specifically, a new service called Checkmarkable, which makes it easy to create re-usable checklists for any purpose. My Daily AM...
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Meeting Prep, on Your Own Time: A Template Google Doc
After feeling frustrated that I wasn’t prepped as much as I wanted before a meeting called by one of my co-workers at Plexus Engine, I came up with the following Google Doc template to capture all the...
View ArticleHow good are you at predicting things? Here’s my Brier Score for the week
HBR ran a great article about improving the forecasting abilities of teams this week, (Superforecasting: How to Upgrade Your Company’s Judgement) I highly recommend it, and one of the most interesting...
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Digital Transformation will change how we work and live together
I was asked in an interview that I hope will appear online soon what I’m excited about that’s coming in the future of social media. Based on some thoughts from Dion Hinchcliffe that I wrote about...
View ArticleHow to be valuable online in 2018
You know what kind of year-end blog posts are most valuable? In my mind, it’s ones highlighting the best or most successful content someone’s published throughout the whole year. That editorial...
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Why you shouldn’t rely on social feed algorithms alone
“We run the risk, with social news algorithms,” Czech media philosopher Vilém Flusser wrote, “of losing our human capacity to select information, an essential part of making decisions, of being free.”...
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Finding new value in old notes
One of the journals I keep is a Daily Q&A journal, which asks the same question each calendar day every year for five years. It’s a great exercise in seeing what’s changed in your life and what’s...
View ArticleSimplicity, Gut, and Complex Decisions
There’s a saying that simple decisions are best made with rational thought alone, but complex decisions benefit from a big dose of gut feeling as well. I’ve been employing two methods for dealing with...
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How to read 3X more than you do today
The democratization of the printing press (by that I mean the internet) has led to a new problem: information overload. A related problem is the shortage of time we have to read the internet. If you...
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How to have important blog posts read to you aloud on your phone
Information overload is a defining challenge of our time. It’s tempting to just shut down, ignore all the incredible things on the internet, or rely on serendipity and social feeds to bring you what...
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The growth benefits of blog subscription
I’m not going to write yet another post about how to grow your blog subscribers (in my experience working for blogs like TechCrunch and ReadWriteWeb, our key tactics were to write regularly and to...
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