by Jeff Yablon | Dec 9, 2013 | Influency, Marketing
In our increasingly interconnected world, you’d better be working on your Influency. For years, one of the methods I’ve espoused for growing the ways in which you touch a wider community has been through coopetition, where you stop looking at others as...
by Jeff Yablon | Sep 20, 2013 | Influency
The more I write and speak about Influency, the more places where a need for careful thought and planning matter pop up. You know: exactly the kind of care that politicians don’t seem to know how to put into their work. Which is a painful thing to consider,...
by Jeff Yablon | Sep 13, 2013 | Influency
Four years ago, maybe even before anyone else had said this, I told you that social networking was a fairly unsocial thing. In fact, social networking actually causes isolation and depression. Being merely an amateur psychologist, I’m not sure why that is, but...
by Jeff Yablon | Feb 6, 2013 | Marketing, Search Engine Optimization SEO
Sometimes, you just shake your head in disbelief. A few days ago, I noticed that somebody had searched Google for the phrase answerguy.com+social+networking. I’m sure you can guess, but what that means is that it occurred to someone that they needed to ask...
by Jeff Yablon | Jan 11, 2013 | Influency
I hate that all my Facebook friends are in my phone. Or I would, if they were. That said, since I’m not just The Answer Guy, but The Computer Answer Guy, I’ve made sure that my Facebook contacts, LinkedIn connections, and the like haven’t been...