Wow, I got over 5,200 views and 2,300 reads for my first post on Medium a few weeks ago. That’s remarkable. I’ve been aware of Medium for a few years now. Mainly, I would discover smart content on Medium which I might have found on Wired, The New Yorker, or A List Apart. The long-form content there [...]

Content marketing and content curation was one of the main themes of 2014. Companies jumped (or stumbled) in with both feet – as well as individual thought leaders, who were quick to create their own content platforms and collections. Supporting these efforts was the emergence of some excellent tools that allowed you to easily stitch [...]

Are more of your website visitors coming from a mobile device instead of a desktop or laptop computer? Mine are, and even though this site is optimized for mobile, it needs to evolve. (That includes smartphone plus tablet usage.) In What Users Want Most from Mobile Sites Today,  Google reports that 61% of mobile visitors [...]

The last time I demonstrated LinkedIn company pages to a senior executive, with the goal of getting him to do it for his company, he was incredulous that it was free. He was looking for the price tag. It’s odd that in the rush to cover all the leading social media platforms that companies have neglected [...]

I was sitting and looking at a boring and uninspiring to-do list on a Saturday morning when I got a call from my good friend Jordan. “Let’s go to the opera,” he said.  Hmm, not remembering any strong connection between Jordan and opera, but knowing Jordan as an explorer, and a person who uncovers interesting [...]