From designing a website to saving taxpayer money to fixing potholes, technology is enabling citizens to engage with their government in new and meaningful ways. Here’s how. Read more »
For all the glitz of tech brands like Google, Facebook and Twitter, they account for relatively few jobs and only a tiny fraction of GDP. Our economy needs more VC investment… Read more »
Twitter has been lauded for its capacity to crowdsource and uncover the “Truth.” Mathias Crawford, a Fellow at Stanford University, says Twitter’s self-correcting skills are vastly overstated and flawed. The company’s… Read more »
After Sandy, disaster recovery is on everyone’s minds. But for companies who can’t find the budget for a full-on business continuity plan, here’s a way to start small by focusing on… Read more »
According to Edward Aten, founder of Swift.fm, Facebook is recreating and competing with nearly every significant Internet product of the last few years. It’s an unprecedented pivot that threatens Facebook’s core… Read more »
The largest companies in the world are in process of figuring out how they can incorporate public social conversations into their daily business operations. Chris Moody from social media data company… Read more »
As work media — social media tools designed to get work done — become more ubiquitous, futurist Stowe Boyd sees an even greater need for well-defined standards that would help companies… Read more »
Today’s audiences do not distinguish content as either pure digital or television, and to capture an audience’s attention and loyalty requires major social media skills. MTV and VH1’s Kristin Frank offers… Read more »
What do Belichick defensive schemes, Tom Clancy novels, Google+ and Facebook have in common? The answer is that all are so byzantine that they leave people scratching their heads to figure… Read more »
We all know about the consumer Web innovations in the last ten years, created by crunching massive amounts of consumer data for personalization. But how are companies in other industries leveraging… Read more »