Software testers unite. You’re not alone anymore.
Social QA – the framework for those too big to fail.
Social Quality Assurance
Here comes another paradigm shift. How do you get an IT group to think about the business of QA and sharing, without getting the APP/DVL community all worked up to the point where they want to develop their own wiki or social media layer instead of using something that’s already been designed, proven, and tested.
And how about their feelings? You don’t want tick off the developers either… cause you’re all in the …

Communicating Life Stories – Digital Storytelling
Oral History Publishing in a Digital Age
Technology is moving so fast that sometimes it’s tough to stay in tune with the latest trends. A high school history program teacher at Ridge High School in Bernards Township brought up the opportunity to discuss new technologies around presenting a new oral history project. While there were certainly challenges around the capture of the history, there’s an even greater issue what to do with the recordings once they’ve been captured. Ah…..the presentation. Welcome to the age of media …

Filming all over the world leads entrepreneur to challenge businesses to leverage internet with video and stakes their claim on the internet.
New Vernon , New Jersey (Map it)
Don’t tell Alex Williams that video is out of reach for the business owner looking to increase it’s professional image and communicate directly with their customer base. “Video is the ultimate communication vehicle for whatever you’re trying to promote.” Since competition is more fierce than ever before, everyone needs to look for ways to differentiate themselves and get their points …

Are you a real estate agent? How’s your business doing? Are you growing your network? Building your brand? Using the latest technology?
As with most business sectors, technology plays a huge part in optimizing an agents work flow. Agents are finding it tougher and tougher to keep up with innovative and productive technologies when they know they should really be out there securing clients and building out their networks. Listen up agents – don’t fall into the technology trap.

That sucking sound is all the time you waste on technology.
Don’t get me …

Viral Digital Marketing – That sounds bad.
Viral Digital Marketing. Is that the dreaded VDM virus seen on CNN?
Viral? Is that the H1N1? Swine flu? Oh my god it’s a virus. I hate viruses.
Normally yes, the term viral and virus are nasty. But not this one. Viral digital marketing (I call it VDM) is a great term. Say it…the term is a great one. “Viral digital marketing”. Viral means to spread like a virus. And digital marketing is, well, marketing you do digitally.
Viral digital marketing could be your best friend in …

December 14, 2009 – Show me the money.
It was announced today that now Citi is going to pay back $20 Billion of the est. $40 billion they borrowed from the TARP fund when they were on the verge of collapse.
Funny how that happens. Isn’t it compensation time? You know,  the end of the year when compensation discussions are in full swing and the big bonus’s are paid out. If you were running the show at Citi, guess you wouldn’t want Obama and the rest  involved in your compensation discussions now …

Ah it’s social media. You hear it’s all the rage. All the kids are doing it, so why not you.
You get free stuff. Free YouTube posts, free Facebook pages, Free Twitter.. How hard could it be?
Get ready for the rollercoaster ride. It’s not as easy as it looks. And your audience is way more sophisticated and mature then you thought.
It’s not a bunch of zit faced geek kids. 300 million Facebookers and counting. If you don’t have a strategy, you better get one. Otherwise, the social network might create one …

To see where America is going, it might make sense to see what the rest of the industrialized world is doing.
Frontline, the PBS television program, from time to time decides not to slant the argument but to merely present an overview. The recent episode entitled….Sick Around the World , Health Care History in 5 Capitalist Countries. In Sick Around the World, FRONTLINE teams up with veteran Washington Post foreign correspondent T.R. Reid to find out how five other capitalist democracies — the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, Taiwan and Switzerland — …

Google Wave Collaborates in Realtime – Some call it the next Facebook killer. Other think it might put Twitter to bed.
Why is realtime collaboration such a big deal?
Maybe it’s because we didn’t let them keep score during sports, maybe it’s because we’re all equal. Maybe it’s just because time is so short that you really need to have others help you get it done. Maybe it’s just because we don’t want to be alone (well you’re most likely alone, you’re just connected and alone).
Whatever the reason, reatime collaboration software is …

What happens when you mix a fantastic opportunity with a big dilemma in the business world? For big fortune 500 companies, it’s social networking. With an entire generation being raised on web 2.0 facebook apps and immediate communication capabilities, it’s time for CIO’s to start recognizing how to leverage social networking rather then cutting ties to everything at the corporate firewalls. And here’s the new buzz phrase – it’s called social business software, or simply SBS. Simply put, it’s social software for the workplace.
Customers and Employees Communicate
Business models are changing. Communication models are changing. …