Life

The Life Cycle of a Business

by Erik on July 25, 2009

in Interesting,Philosophy

What is a business – anyway?  As usual, Wikipedia offers a pretty good definition:  “In economics, business is the social science of managing people to organize and maintain collective productivity toward accomplishing particular creative and productive goals, usually to generate profit.”  Not surprisingly, as is the case for any highly complex system or entity, this [...]

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Long-Distance Drops As Wireless Gains

by Erik on July 1, 2009

in Interesting,Technology

NPR has an interesting article on the switch from land-line telephone companies to wireless. This reminds me of the AP piece that talked about how cell-only households now outnumber traditional phone households.That statistic points to problem in our current method of landline national polling for elections, which was brought to everyone’s attention in 2008. As [...]

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Restaurants finding Twitter a cheap, effective marketing tool

by Erik on June 29, 2009

in Interesting,New Tech,Social Media

I was having a discussion the other day with one of my employees about the benefit of twitter and how it can be utilized in a business setting as a value-adding marketing tool. He was not so convinced. He could only see twitter as a way to tell people what you were doing at any [...]

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“Think”

by Erik on June 28, 2009

in IBM,Philosophy

Found this great picture while browsing through the Life archives over at Google Images. It’s such an interesting photograph. Were they posing? The suits are wonderfully 1950s: a large lapel, white shirt and a “smart tie.” The caption reads: Italian-American working as a clerk for International Business Machines Corporation with its motto on desk “THINK.” [...]

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"Think"

by Erik on June 28, 2009

in IBM,Philosophy

Found this great picture while browsing through the Life archives over at Google Images. It’s such an interesting photograph. Were they posing? The suits are wonderfully 1950s: a large lapel, white shirt and a “smart tie.” The caption reads: Italian-American working as a clerk for International Business Machines Corporation with its motto on desk “THINK.” [...]

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IBM and the Web 2.0 World

by Erik on June 24, 2009

in Censorship,IBM,Privacy,Web 2.0

Serendipitously, I just uncovered a post relating to IBM and social media use guidelines, which I wrote about yesterday with regard to the Associated Press’ new policy. IBM’s document is a “public submission to the Department of Homeland Security as part of their Privacy Workshops they hosted in Washington D.C. earlier this week.” photo credit: [...]

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