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/2010/06/10/are-you-solving-an-old-problem/ http://www.thommitchell.com/2010/06/10/are-you-solving-an-old-problem/#comments Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:52:46 +0000 Thom http://www.thommitchell.com/?p=1649 Businesses are often formed to provide a product or service - either proactively or in response to a specific problem. But businesses have to be careful that the problem that they are solving remains a current one, or that it solves the whole problem and not just part of the problem. Otherwise those businesses are vulnerable to competition from new [...]]]> http://www.thommitchell.com/2010/06/10/are-you-solving-an-old-problem/feed/ 1 http://www.thommitchell.com/2010/02/19/social-media-missteps/ http://www.thommitchell.com/2010/02/19/social-media-missteps/#comments Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:46:46 +0000 Thom http://www.thommitchell.com/?p=1085 As everyone and their grandmothers rush to embrace Social Media, it’s fun watching companies really begin to leverage the power of the platforms. But it’s also very painful to see the missteps and mistakes that people and companies make – most of which could be avoided with a little forethought and planning. Here are some of [...]]]> http://www.thommitchell.com/2010/02/19/social-media-missteps/feed/ 0 http://www.thommitchell.com/2010/01/24/familiarity-vs-knowledge/ http://www.thommitchell.com/2010/01/24/familiarity-vs-knowledge/#comments Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:27:54 +0000 Thom http://www.thommitchell.com/?p=978 Too many people and companies mistake familiarity for knowledge. A while back I was working with a CIO, whom I’ll call Ray, and realized that while he was familiar with several technologies, he had no actual knowledge about them or how they could help transform the business. Being familiar with or knowing about a product is one thing [...]]]> http://www.thommitchell.com/2010/01/24/familiarity-vs-knowledge/feed/ 0 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/2009/11/08/updates-revisiting-past-topics/ http://www.thommitchell.com/2009/11/08/updates-revisiting-past-topics/#comments Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:40:31 +0000 Thom http://www.thommitchell.com/?p=498 A column of updates is every columnist’s favorite crutch when ideas aren’t flowing and blogging is no different. But of  course, I am doing an update column because I think that some of the previous topics I’ve written about earlier are worth updating, not because I’m suffering from a lack of ideas. Mobile Phone Industry updates- AT&T signed up a record 3.2 million [...]]]> http://www.thommitchell.com/2009/11/08/updates-revisiting-past-topics/feed/ 0