Exploring Our Digital World
Our digital future is about enabling better productivity and decisions making to enjoy a better quality of life.
A good friend of mine recently asked me for guidance on starting on Twitter. May sound strange but yes, there are still people who aren’t on Twitter. It is definitely a matter of fact we tend to forget. If and once she gets on Twitter, I will definitely make sure to shadow and guide her… [Continue Reading]
Forget loyalty cards and special coupons, only a virtual prerequisite can get you parked within a few yards of grabbing your chow at this popular burrito joint. Even closer than a parking spot for handicapped persons. Have you experienced one of these fast lanes yet?
Notwithstanding, I discovered an iOS better integrated with major social networks, emphasizing privacy, unveiling new switches to turn offline life on and pushing the traditional phone function to the background. I have to wonder though: does such an OS really take a huge technological leap or just the time to both better negotiate integration with those major social networks and hold a few features on the back burner as stocking stuffers. We now know that Apple-Facebook (800 million users at the time) had failed for iOS 5 and the winner turned out to be Twitter (200 million).
It is then like stretching and slowing down time; where you once had the choice between as-it-happens-live-no-rehearsing and reflected-daunting-blow-by-blow communication means; we now have an a-la-carte, always-on, on our terms opportunities to communicate, connect and create new relationships.
Apple’s new OS X Lion hit the App Store today and downloaded it in earnest. This is a first, all previous OS updates were delivered through hard media and it is ushering as you’ll see in what follows, the era of iDevices functionalities bleeding into laptops and desktops. My two year old daughter’s dream may come true after all; having already swiped iPads and iPhones screens, any screen to her is now touch sensitive including the TV. This twist of faith is all the more interesting that Apple’s challenge, less than 5 years back, was to find ways to make it as easy to use Apple portable devices as laptops and desktops were. Apple pushed the envelop so far in overcoming and perfecting that now iPhones, iPads and iPods features are brought back into laptops and desktops through the combination of software and hardware: OS X Lion and multi-gesture trackpads.
Twitter advertising is at the very beginning of a rather innovative way to advertise online with a concept called resonance that relies on a deeper user engagement. Pricing is still a bit of black box until one actually gets to it but here are some pointers.
15,000 cancellations from tourists around the world since the Argana bombing in Marrakech. Wondering how you can help the Red City ride out the storm… all the while having fun and making new friends?
What is your favorite place or time to do some important work? When is the last time you had 3 hours to yourself at the office? Distractions? Interruptions? What do many employers say they fear at the thought of letting their people work from home? Distractions? Interruptions? Vicious circle? Where do we go from here?
Listed by Forbes as a top social media influencers two years in a row, I'm a new media marketing strategist, speaker, coach, biker and a week-end chef. more…