http://www.thommitchell.com Navigating through the intersections of business and technology Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:15:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.thommitchell.com/2009/12/01/5-social-media-rules-for-entrepreneurs/ http://www.thommitchell.com/2009/12/01/5-social-media-rules-for-entrepreneurs/#comments Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:53:18 +0000 Thom http://www.thommitchell.com/?p=775 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? Don’t let this happen to you or your business. Here are my five social media rules [...]]]> http://www.thommitchell.com/2009/12/01/5-social-media-rules-for-entrepreneurs/feed/ 1 http://www.thommitchell.com/2009/09/02/its-about-the-business-not-about-the-technology/ http://www.thommitchell.com/2009/09/02/its-about-the-business-not-about-the-technology/#comments Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:51:17 +0000 Thom http://www.thommitchell.com/?p=358 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 [...]]]> http://www.thommitchell.com/2009/09/02/its-about-the-business-not-about-the-technology/feed/ 0 http://www.thommitchell.com/2009/08/29/new-technologies-creates-new-opportunities/ http://www.thommitchell.com/2009/08/29/new-technologies-creates-new-opportunities/#comments Sat, 29 Aug 2009 12:19:26 +0000 Thom http://www.thommitchell.com/?p=299 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 [...]]]> http://www.thommitchell.com/2009/08/29/new-technologies-creates-new-opportunities/feed/ 0 http://www.thommitchell.com/2009/08/24/using-obsolete-skills-can-be-fun/ http://www.thommitchell.com/2009/08/24/using-obsolete-skills-can-be-fun/#comments Tue, 25 Aug 2009 01:37:20 +0000 Thom http://www.thommitchell.com/?p=294 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. Formerly as a network administrator I had to pull [...]]]> http://www.thommitchell.com/2009/08/24/using-obsolete-skills-can-be-fun/feed/ 1 http://www.thommitchell.com/2009/04/11/technologies-change-but-what-remains/ http://www.thommitchell.com/2009/04/11/technologies-change-but-what-remains/#comments Sat, 11 Apr 2009 14:31:46 +0000 Thom http://www.thommitchell.com/?p=37 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 [...]]]> http://www.thommitchell.com/2009/04/11/technologies-change-but-what-remains/feed/ 0