Posts Tagged Technology
5 Social Media Rules for Entrepreneurs
Posted by Thom in Business, Social Media, Technology on December 1st, 2009
A Dry River Bed is like an abandoned Twitter stream – neither one has much to offer.
Few things are more pathetic than looking at the abandoned twitter stream of a business. They start off robust and full of hope before dwindling to a few short screeds touting some sale before finally growing stale and stopping cold. Does this sound familiar?
It’s About the Business Not About the Technology
Posted by Thom in Business, Technology on September 2nd, 2009
Summer Camp, or Bar Camp, events can be incredibly useful and informative.
Recently an informative and interesting technical event on virtualization provided confirmation for a truism about technology and business. First and foremost technology is only a means to an end - not an end in itself. Of course this observation isn’t limited to my technical colleagues because business people can become just as enamored with the “technology du jour” as any hardcore technologist.
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New Technologies Create New Opportunities
Posted by Thom in Business, Social Media, Technology on August 29th, 2009
The Chez Pascal food truck brings tasty food to a location near you.
It’s not very often that a new technology comes along and is immediately embraced and put to use by small businesses. The fax machine was one such technology and it was huge boon for small businesses. Now Twitter is the new technology that small business are embracing enthusiastically. Still, the first reaction whenever I mention Twitter is “I don’t care what somebody has for lunch”. You know what, neither do I most of the time, that is unless it’s a really good lunch like @chezpascal.
Using Obsolete Skills Can Be Fun
Posted by Thom in Business, IT, Technology on August 24th, 2009
This is a classic Punchdown Tool that connects the wires of your phone system or ethernet cable by "Punching" them down to make the connections.
No matter how hard you work to acquire them, some skills eventually become obsolete. But even obsolete skills get dusted off occasionally. And it’s interesting when those formerly needed skills, that you haven’t used on a daily basis, suddenly become useful at the oddest times and in the oddest places.
Technologies change but what remains
Posted by Thom in Technology on April 11th, 2009
Recently while cooking dinner for the family, my 3-year-old daughter walked into the kitchen with her toy phone tucked between head and shoulder carrying on a conversation, with whom I don’t know because she said in a perfect tone “I can’t talk now, I’ve gotta go” complete with eye-roll. She could’ve have been 17 for all the attitude she was channeling.
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