by Jeff Yablon | Mar 15, 2013 | Business Process, Influency, Marketing
Remember last year’s SXSW conference, where homeless people were given jobs carrying around mobile 4G hotspots? No? I’ll remind you about it, and also that my position then, as now, is that it was a win/win/win situation. A few people who needed it had...
by Jeff Yablon | Mar 14, 2013 | Business Process, Content, Influency
It’s the end of the world as we know it … and I’m going to have to feel fine. Yesterday, Google dropped a bombshell on The Internet. They’re hoping you don’t notice, and the truth is you probably won’t unless you’re been using...
by Jeff Yablon | Mar 13, 2013 | Influency
This week I was discussing a new tool called “OwnCloud” with a client and Answer Guy Central working partner. He’s one of the smartest people I know, and our conversation started with me telling him I had come across a way to get past the security...
by Jeff Yablon | Mar 11, 2013 | Content, Influency, Marketing, Media
Stop Blogging. Fred Wilson has. Seriously, though? I don’t actually mean either of those things. Fred Wilson, notorious movie pirate and even more notorious venture capitalist, has decided to curtail—or at least slow—his blogging. Fred, of course, lives in a...
by Jeff Yablon | Mar 8, 2013 | Business Process, Customer Service, Influency
Influency comes in many forms, and with almost everyone having a mobile phone, your wireless telecom carrier sure does occupy a position of influency in your life. You’ll pay what they tell you, or bad things will happen. Or maybe not. Over three years ago,...