Social media connecting the IRL dots

This summer (well, the last year actually) has been somewhat special for me. This has been a year of many, many new friends, and close ones at that, and I give social media a lot of credit for that. The expression IRL (in real life) has been questioned by some, meaning that the life on […]

Start-ups or projects

As one goes through life, in my case mostly business, one come across so many issues and obstacles that one could/should do something about. For the the past year and a half I have begun working on at least the following four start-up ideas or let us just call them projects – that take off […]

You are your nick or are you?

When the film The Matrix premiered in 1999 (is it really that long ago?) we all thought the names of the main characters where intriguing, pittoresque or for some just plain strange; Neo, Morpheus, Dozer, and Trinity. In Neo’s case this was his hacker nickname and how he was recognized in certain circles. Most likely […]

The thank you economy

Long awaited and with high expectations I set out to devour Gary Veynerchuk’s latest book, The thank you economy. As you may recall I got a signed copy from Gary some months ago but not until early July was the book available from Audible. So now I’ve listen to it and as so often the […]

Free business idea

Now I’ll share an idea with you that I hope someone will take onboard and just do. If you haven’t been locked away for the past ten years you have seen and been amazed by the fantastic online retailer Net-a-porter. Founded by Natalie Massenet in 1999, she came from a job as editor at the […]

Who do you befriend on Facebook?

Up until last week we’ve basically had three major social networks to engage in; Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. Last week we saw the birth of Google+ but I have still not received an invite… I think most of us have a rather common view on the use of these three networks. LinkedIn is for professional […]