Archive for February, 2011

A Privacy Policy We Can All Love

Facebook finally rolled out a new privacy policy, written with good principles in mind. Via Mashable: First, it should be easy to understand, even when the concept is complicated or is of no use to anyone. Second, it should be visual and interactive, because that’s the way people use the web today. Third, it should [...]

Monday, February 28th, 2011

China’s Social Media Folly

Tumblr is blocked in China. Billions of people will never be able to see my blog posts on social media, entrepreneurship, marketing and branding. No doubt however! There’s probably someone just like me out there looking to write about what I write about. And they are probably doing it with DianDian. As China stares out [...]

Sunday, February 27th, 2011

Social Media and Direct Selling

Back in elementary and middle school, I remember being told to sell cookie dough and magazine subscriptions to raise money for the school district I was in. The belief then was to go door-to-door, pitch the product and hopefully get a signature or two from someone who would be interested. By selling a certain amount [...]

Saturday, February 26th, 2011

The Future Belongs to Apple

Steve Jobs may be going soon, but the future belongs to Apple. Just take a look at the photo above. Apple may charge a lot, but remember – the branding as we have mentioned many times, lies in the experience and lies in the overall integrated benefit. Makes you wonder what the kid in the [...]

Friday, February 25th, 2011

English & Arabic Translations – Newest Developments from Tripoli, Libya and Gaddafi

  Human Translation  Made Possible By  HK Video Updates Relevant to the original Post “Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi Says He Will Die a Martyr“. English – These videos really help show the devastation and turmoil that is going throughout all of North Africa, from Tunisia to Egypt and now Libya. Hope there is Some Good [...]

Thursday, February 24th, 2011