When you talk about combining men and machines, you usually think “Borg.” In the Borg model, technology is added to man, resulting in a human that is more like a machine. We’re about to cross over into more of a “Tron” age, though, kind of the opposite of Borg. In the T...

This is a blog about the intersection of branding and social media. I promise I’ll get there if you’ll indulge me in a little big picture. These are dark days. My cable news habit has dropped off since the election, but even the half hour I spend with Brian Williams each night is enough ...

I need to get out more. Sitting here with a 40 terabyte direct cranial link to people who agree with me, it’s easy to forget that lot’s of people out there still have good reasons for deciding NOT to take advantage of all that social media has to offer, at either the personal or professi...

A business school sage once advised me, or more properly a roomful of Type-A hyper-achievers with one foot out the door, to seek balance in our lives. “Measure your successes by what you sacrifice to achieve them,” he said. It was good advice then, and it’s stuck with me. I was rem...

As with most things in life, you can learn more about social media in the first ten minutes of The Godfather than you can by reading whatever business book is being shilled by this week’s paper guru. Un-commented on, out of respect for both you the reader, and for the sistine chapel of contemp...