Posted by: tim in Untagged on
Dec 16, 2011
“We can not solve the significant problems we face today, at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them”
Albert Einstein
I was just thinking today about the new discovery that there is something that travels faster than the speed of light – the Nutrino, now confirmed by a second study conducted in Italy
Posted by: tim in social media, Bizabacus on
Nov 13, 2011
Can’t sleep? Why? What gets me up and out of bed?
Ideas I want to capture that came to me after a bit of rest. I write them (long hand) down in my Moleskine – doing drawings.
There is something still about the feel of paper that helps me think better – I love a good pen (Mount Blanc). The ideas seem to flow a bit more rich when I use paper and pen. It’s peaceful to have a light shine down on the page in the morning rather than shine at me from a screen while I sit in my study to capture an insight that emerged from the unknown scribe that visits in my dreams.
Posted by: admin in Bizabacus on
Oct 27, 2011
A shopping mall, Wall Street, Bay Street, The Chicago Merc: the financial hub in any city. Broadway (the theater district), Rue de Bouche, Little Italy, Chinatown, Restaurant Row, The Garment District, 5th Avenue, Rive Gauche, Rodeo Drive, Soho, Madison Avenue.
Names of places so familiar we instantly get an image in our minds eye, what they stand for when we hear one of these places by name. We know where they are – where to go when are visiting a city. These are the collective business voice, the “brand” of a type of activity business does. It’s where to go, where to be, where to see and be seen. These are places about what happens and where it happens – the “buzz”.
We go there to find out the best restaurant, fashion trend, hot show for an evening out. When we travel we might go sightseeing as traders bounce about a floor, or stroll down. It’s the movement around a sector of a city where things happen. Like constellations, its where the stars align and add up to become a business hub.
Posted by: tim in steve jobs, reflection on
Oct 6, 2011
When a person, like Steve Job's must leave this world the only light that can be found for those of us left is cast in the genius and inspiration his life inspired.
I write of the personal inspiration Steve Jobs has given in my life and the life of our organization. At one time, Apple too, was a small technology firm, with an idea and dreams. In the success of technology, like Apple and Steve, lives are forever changed in ways that we might never imagine. With the impact of genius, like Steve carved into the lives of so many, with a masterful hand he shaped a global culture.
Posted by: admin in social media, marketing on
Aug 4, 2011
Social media may be a massively dispersed way to contact millions of people all over the world... but that doesn’t mean there aren’t some statistics that show you how to get the most out of it. Here are 4 facts you probably didn’t know about the best times and days to tweet, blog and post to Facebook.
1. Facebook Users are Most Active at 3:00 pm
So if you want to update your Fan Page or just have all your friends see pictures of your cat, doing it in the afternoon is the best time.
2. Retweeting happens the most between 2:00pm and 5:00pm EST. Tweet then to see best results
It does make sense when you think about. Office workers tend to lose focus in the afternoon, and with a lack of focus, the chirp of Twitter becomes a siren's song.
Four years ago, most people were pretty happy with their cell phones. They were slim, they slid or flipped and they had sexy names like the RAZR. Today if university students don’t have a smartphone, they probably refer to their phone as a “dumbphone.”
According to reports published in May, overall, cell phones sold 19% more in year over year sales, but Smartphones were increasingly becoming the default purchase. Sales of Smartphones increased 85% year on year. That statistic is amazing. Consumers are flocking to devices that allow them to consume media anywhere and access the internet from anywhere. Cell phones already outnumber TV sets 3 to 1 according to BNET. This isn’t a trend. It’s a mobile revolution.
Posted by: admin in social media, Bizabacus, 1to1Real on
Aug 3, 2011
The goal of social networking sites is to link people to people. We created Bizabacus because we realized that people aren’t the only entities online that need to be social, and people online aren’t always searching for other people. We decided to stop discriminating against businesses when it came to social networking!
What does that mean?
Every other social network makes you sign up as a person first. People need to create fan pages on Facebook, people need to set up and maintain Twitter accounts… heck, Google+ doesn’t even want you if you’re a business. Considering how much commerce takes place on the internet, and how people actually USE the internet, this seems like a big oversight, doesn’t it?
Posted by: admin in travel, reflection, funny stories on
Jul 27, 2011
Like to travel? There are tons of lists out there curating the world’s most tech savvy cities. If you’ve been to Seattle or New York, you’ve probably marveled at the blanket of free wifi and the sprawling campuses that house some of the world’s biggest high tech firms and internet leaders – Microsoft, Amazon, Google, etc. Asia is no slouch either. Anyone who’s been to Tokyo will have been floored by the incredible efficiency of the train system and how the city seamlessly combines ultra-modern innovation and architecture, endless shops packed floor to ceiling with gadgets, games and electronics AND traditional shrines and gardens.
The thing is, despite all those breathless write-ups and images of super high-tech cities of the future, a lot of small centers are still hopping onto the bandwagon. While you can use your cell phone to wirelessly pay for bus fare and taxis in Europe and Asia, in most small towns wireless debit machines are just starting to make an appearance.
And while everyone online is talking about Netflix and streaming video as the future of content delivery, in small and medium sized cities the local Blockbuster is still doing brisk business.
Marketing can be tricky, and email marketing can be even trickier. Obviously businesses that communicate with their customers do better than businesses that don’t, but reminders can quickly turn to pestering. What’s the line for email? What’s the line if you send email and phone your customers? In their paper Enough is Enough! The Fine Line is Executing Multichannel Relational Communication, Dr. Andrea Godfrey, Dr. Kathleen Seiders and Dr. Glenn B. Voss decided to get to the bottom of this particular marketing puzzle.
The basic premise was this: compelling, personal communications encourage customer loyalty and build long-term relationships. But at what point do communications drive customers away? Reactance theory suggests that increasing relational communication (a fancy name for targeted materials like emails, phone calls and direct mail) can have “a negative influence on repurchase because customers perceive the communication as invasive or obtrusive.”
Posted by: admin in lists, cloud on
Jul 14, 2011
Computer curmudgeons might tell you that cloud is just a buzzword for keeping your information offsite (think Google Docs, rather than installing Microsoft Word), but as cranky as those curmudgeons are, they do have to admit there are a lot of cloud business benefits. Is the cloud right for your business? Here are 8 reasons why the cloud is good:
1. No more “I dropped my laptop. All my data is gone”: Sure you could back up, but how many of us back up as often as we’re supposed to? Cloud servers keep and maintain much more regular backups than the average user.
2. It’s much cheaper to get started on the cloud: It used to be that businesses had to maintain servers in their offices to manage the connections between their computers and their data. When you go cloud, that information is stored offsite, meaning you don’t have to pay for a server.