Businesses in Trouble

We are book people.  I love browsing through bookshops, and have ever since I was kid. My favorite book shop growing up started out as a used book store called “The Village Green” in Rochester, NY.  It was around the corner from our house, and I could go...

Using the Tools at Hand

Chris Penn had an interesting post on his blog today that boils down to this point:  It’s in the way that you use it.  Just like the Eric Clapton song says: It’s in the way that you use it, It comes and it goes. It’s in the way that you use it, Boy...

Extending the Conversation

The conversations and people I have met through podcasting, social media channels like Twitter and events like Podcamp in its various forms and incarnations have changed my life. It’s not just that I have made great friends who I never would have met otherwise,...

Reputation

Reputation is a tricky thing.  Ben Franklin said, ““It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it”.  It’s at once your most valuable possession, but one of the most fragile as well. Online, we all build a digital...

iPhone Apps for Moms

A few of my friends are getting their first iPhone, so I thought I’d put a list together of my favorite apps, and let you add yours, to help them get started. News I like the New York Times headlines app;  USA Today, Bloomberg for geeky finance news.  The Weater...