I stumbled upon the Leo Burnett advertising agency website while researching brands. Click the link to be taken to a short video and article summary of our challenges and opportunities in the year ahead. Embers of opportunity abound, little opportunities just waiting for someone to pick them.
Well worth a few minutes of your time.
Google’s Andy Rubin: Over 700,000 Android devices activated daily – latimes.com.
Android-powered devices are the No.1 target for cyber crooks in the mobile phone arena. Popular bill-paying methods and apps on smartphones are expected to be major targets.
via Smartphones offer easy access to malware purveyors | Herald Sun.
OK. I’ll admit to writing somewhat smugly about not owning or using a smartphone in a post two weeks ago. I’m glad I didn’t make a comment about never owning or using a smartphone because I am now one of the 700,000 Androids that get activated daily.
Resistance is futile. But you still have to be smart about how you use your smartphone. See the second link above.
Facebook is negatively affecting what psychology Professor Jeffrey Parker refers to as “the closeness properties of friendship.”
via Facebook Is Making Us Miserable – Daniel Gulati – Harvard Business Review.
Please note I am not the author of the HBR blog article so please don’t shoot the messenger. I’m neither a huge fan nor harsh critic of what the pundits term as “the dominant communication platform of the future”. I simply don’t use Facebook a lot. I don’t have a smart phone. I have a dumb phone. I don’t use an iPad. I use an old-fashioned laptop if necessary.
If anyone wishes to communicate with me, email or phone works just fine thank you.
Or we could meet in person!
Hacked! – Magazine – The Atlantic
If you read just one article this year on password security, read this one. This is a must read.
RIP
A tribute from Hugh MacLeod
How I Sold a Million Books on Amazon in 5 Months
In case you missed the message, John Locke is a serial entrepreneur who loves to write. He also loves to earn a profit from his writing. He sees writing as a business and the selling of books as a marketing effort. And this is what he shares in this book.
John Locke Author: Secrets to Self-Publishing Success
I owned a life insurance company. I quit college with one week to go before graduation in order to sell insurance door-to-door on straight commission. By age 28 I was one of the top insurance sales people in the world. By age 35 I bought my own life insurance company and appointed nearly 7,000 agents in 34 states.
A Newbie’s Guide to Publishing: Guest Post by John Locke
Read this article. The authors of the respective Twitter posts mentioned in the article are irresponsible and the misinformation potentially damaging.
Most Workers Get Emails in Off-Hours From Bosses Who Expect a Reply
I don’t want to work
I want to bang on the drum all day
I don’t want to play
I just want to bang on the drum all day
Name the artist who wrote these lyrics and win a free white paper.
The white paper can be on the topic of your choice. Only one white paper will be awarded.
Technology News: Exploits & Vulnerabilities: Mozilla and Firefox 5: Upgrade or Die!
Your decision needs to be based upon priorities. Is having a safe and secure web browser more important than having all of your add-in programs functional?
Free Small Business Software Alternatives
A couple of years ago I drafted a consulting proposal for a bunch of investors interested in starting a new life insurance company. The investors didn’t want to spend a lot of money on infrastructure, so I drafted a proposal that emphasized outsourcing and the use of cloud based software services that were either extremely low-cost or in some cases, free. I wrote:
The creation and implementation of a low-cost distributed collaborative workforce offers the new company an additional distinct competitive advantage in the industry… The new company will not be constrained by legacy systems, outdated processes, or asset quality issues. We will create an administrative infrastructure built upon low-cost world-class services furnished by companies with a proven track record of success. This simplified example shows how quickly and inexpensively a customized group of outsourcing partners can be assembled to provide core administrative services for the new company.
Since that time I have wanted to update my list of free software services but now I don’t have to. Stephen Murphy of getbusy media wrote a great little article which can be accessed though the link above. The other link is just something else I’ve been playing with.
And for the curious, no I did not get the gig two years ago.
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