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“Customers don’t know what they want until we’ve shown them.” – Steve Jobs
According to Forrester, we’re now in the Age of the Customer (having, over the past century, previously gone through the Ages of Manufacturing, Distribution and Information). Customers now have far more choice, and far more power, than ever before. Continue reading
I’ve rarely seen a Web design trend sweep in as rapidly as responsive Web design has. And while many people think RWD just has to do with making sites more readable on tablets and smartphones, Kristina Kledzik wrote a very perceptive piece on the SEOmoz blog a few weeks back on how it can help a site’s SEO, too. Continue reading
Like anyone, I get spam in my email inbox, but lately the spam filters and have become pretty good at hiding almost all of that from me.
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Last summer I decided I wanted to move to a different company and the way that I used LinkedIn to quickly get a new job illustrates how different job hunting is today from just a few years ago. Continue reading
This week LinkedIn has been running a feature in which its commentators are writing about the best advice they ever got. I got mine on my second day as a freshman at the University of Michigan. (If I had realized at the time that my college education had just peaked, I might have saved myself four years and a lot of money.)
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Firefox has announced that this summer it will be changing the default privacy settings on the browser so it only accepts cookies from sites that you visited personally. Continue reading
This idea is so s
imple that it’s hard to believe that Microsoft or Google or Yahoo – anyone – hasn’t done this yet, but email needs a Like button. This is not to share it to Facebook or another social site, but to let the sender and others who received the email know that you like or agree with it. It would really help cut down on Inbox clutter.
We’ve all been there. We get an email that was sent to a big group of people. And it may be suggesting all going out for a beer after work, or letting people know that someone received a promotion or won an award. Or it may simply be announcing that a meeting has been pushed back 15 minutes — whatever. And combining that big To list with Reply All abuse, now dozens of emails quickly fill up the inboxes of dozens of people with no more content than “I’m in”, “Congrats!”, “Woot!”, “Thanks” or “got it”.
How much simpler it would be if people could just click a Like button when they received the original email. Then the sender and anyone who received it could see who liked it, sort of like how you can see who has accepted a meeting invite. Quick, easy, and far fewer minimal-content emails cluttering up our inboxes.
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“Picasso had a saying, ‘Good artists copy; great artists steal.’ And we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.” – Steve Jobs
“Talking About” is one of Facebook’s most important brand page metrics; they consider it so important that they place it at the top of each page, right next to its name and the number of page Likes.
Recently a small “vanity” page I created had more people talking about it than the Best Buy, Southwest Airlines, and Microsoft pages – combined. Continue reading