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• No surprise that, as companies have adopted social media en masse, demand for software and applications to manage and monitor social use has exploded.
• One of the ironies of a conference dedicated to all things digital and virtual is that the best ways to connect with people are surprisingly…
• When my company was first getting off the ground, we were completely lost in the shuffle, despite our best efforts. In 2012, however, we had…
• Early in my career, I was involved with engineer-led projects, where designers came in late in the game and were expected to put lipstick on…
• Workflow and usability are not afterthoughts; they impact the core of any project and dictate how it should be engineered.
• Understanding and respecting your roots is critical not only to winning the tech talent wars but leaving a legacy that transcends bottom lines.
• Social media listening tools make it easy to track brand references and mentions, and these functions can still be handled ably by a small, dedicated…
• Pizza made me who I am. In the summer of 1998, I dropped out of college and started a pizza restaurant called Growlies in my…
• For resourceful tech founders, finding capital is rarely a problem; making the best use of it is another story. A few years slinging pepperoni pies…
• The decision to leave a company you founded and move on to a new project is never an easy one.
• Entrepreneurs, by disposition, are built to think big. When a role no longer affords those opportunities, it might be best to leave it in capable…
• A critical question to ask when bringing in a new CEO to take the reins of a company you started is: Do you want someone…
• Social media, for all of its limitations, is rarely irrelevant. The stream of updates on your Facebook page, for instance, is algorithmically engineered to be…
• The point is that instead of a monolithic brick of printed content - delivered more or less unchanged to all subscribers - social media offers…
• As an entrepreneur, one of the biggest challenges you will face will be building your brand. The ultimate goal is to set your company and…
• It helps to look at branding as a challenge that entrepreneurs spend years perfecting.
• While consumer social like Facebook and Twitter gets the headlines, perhaps the greatest untapped potential for social networking lies in business applications.
• Importantly, companies are using social media to do things that go way beyond just chatting up existing customers on Facebook. Sales departments use social to…
• Not using social media in the workplace, in fact, is starting to make about as much sense as not using the phone or email.
• The growing role of enterprise social media, plus the growing budgets and authority of CMOs entrusted with choosing the best platforms, translates into an exciting…

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