Control Your Image

The rush to social media and third party sales venues began years ago and at times resembled the race of settlers to acquire land in the frontier days. But the time and resources required to establish all of the perceived necessities of today’s web presence is quite a...

The Age of Sharing

Am I being selfish if I do not want to share the details of the day’s activities, some music I liked or my opinions about the sandwich I just bought? This is now called “sharing” but it seems more like boring the hell out of friends and strangers,...

Small Business Game Plan

Whenever politicians want something they start talking about “small business” but what they really do FOR small business never seems to make sense, at least if they really want to help. Rather, I suspect politicians and the bureaucrats that benefit from...

The New Technocracy

The first Macintosh computer was released in 1984 and soon ushered in the era of Desktop Publishing. Of course a number of technologies were needed as well as the computer itself, Postscript and laser printers were instrumental. But without the overall simplicity of...

Life in The Cloud

The minute you begin to think you have your digital world in order, something changes the paradigm and you have to rethink almost everything! It took decades for the telephone to replace the telegram but only a few years for the optical disk to replace the floppy. And...