911 For An Apple IIe After several months of therapy, rehabilitation, and instruction on how to live as a quadriplegic, Herb returned home, was working as an engineer, earning a good living, and doing very well on his own. In the
Handshake And A Smile (Is It Possible?) As I left ST. Elizabeth’s hospital that morning I had a strange sense of profound satisfaction. It was the first time I had ever designed and built something for someone who was so
One is for On, & Two is for Off During the remaining four days before the demonstration, I retreated to my garage both day and night. What would this country be without its garages? Some people think that it's the
Founding The $15.3 Billion Assistive Technology Industry In The Beginning… I’m going to step away from the technical aspects of Innovative Thinking for this entry and interweave actual practical examples. Below is the story of how I co-founded the $5.3
BY FC Expert Blogger Lon Safko Mon Nov 15, 2010 This blog is written by a member of our expert blogging community and expresses that expert's views alone. We are all total voyeurs, eavesdroppers! That's what makes YouTube so popular.
PATENTS / TRADEMARKS / COPYRIGHTS / SIGNATURE MARKS The SenSei Operating System "Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up." James Magary (more…)
(An Introduction) Welcome to Innovation… I wanted to launch this blog with what I believe is the most important thing you should do--become better at Innovative Thinking. Innovative or Creative Thinking has the highest rate of return of anything you
(WII-FM)Whenever I go into a company or organization to train, or teach any marketing class the first thing I teach is always ask “What’s In It For Me?”, WII-FM. What do I get out of it? What do I walk
Thank you for reading my blog about blogs! Here is the link to download the spreadsheet. Because the response on this has been so great, I am currently working with Dr. Gary Witt, Ph.D. in psychological marketing on creating a
Just like contextual advertising, Google Social Search makes your search experience contextual to you and your friends. Cool. I’m not immediately seeing the business application of this and I’m not excited about seeing what my friends have written on a
The Eight Things You Need To Know About… How to write a successful Press Release is a question I get asked often. Like anything else, once you know the guidelines, it’s really easy to write an effective press release. You’ll
It's Fusion Marketing... As many of you know, I am the author of the bestselling book, The Social Media Bible, and my newest bestseller is called The Fusion Marketing Bible. Fusion Marketing is about “What’s next”, it’s what comes after social media.
As many of you know, I am the author of the bestselling book, The Social Media Bible, (http://www.TheSocialMediaBible.com) published by John WIley & Sons. My newest bestseller is called The Fusion Marketing Bible (http://www.TheFusionMarketingBible.com), published by McGraw Hill. Fusion Marketing
Developing a strategy for your Fusion Marketing Plan begins with understanding which metric you want to measure on your path toward success. Say for example, you’re an author and your bottom line metric is “sell more books;” how will you
If there is a God... We’re not his best work. I only write content about business. My articles are always self-help educational content about innovation, creativity, social media, advanced marketing, and Fusion Marketing. I’ve never written an article about politics,
Recently, I was asked to compile a list of what I thought were the top best practices, a blueprint, a cheat sheet, take-away for a conference I was speaking at, on how to succeed at Facebook marketing. The reviews were
Whenever I speak with a government agency or often with larger, Fortune 500 corporation I hear “Oh, we don’t allow social media in or organization...” Ah, yeah... I was working as a nuclear engineer at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in
Google set the stage by changing the way your web / blog site shows up on the SERP's, (Search Engine Result Pages), when they changed from their complex algorithm to mostly ranking based on the amount of content you have.
Recently, Jeff Elder wrote an article for the Wall Street Journal “Social Media Fail to Live Up to Early Marketing Hype”, (http://on.wsj.com/1rHYi30), which was based on a survey done by Gallup the long standing polling company, saying that Social Media
Everybody talks about participating in a global economy, global community, and the Worldwide Web, but how many social media experts and eMarketers really know anything about what’s going on outside of the United States? Every blog, every post, every article
The power of five is something that was researched by the people at Future Now (Future Now - ROI, 2006). Future Now helps traditional companies increase the effectiveness of their sales force and their eCommerce conversion rates. Understanding the concept
