by Jeff Yablon | Jan 26, 2012 | Business Process, Marketing, Media
I’ve mentioned Chris Brogan here quite a few times. Sometimes, I praise him. More often, I call Mr. Brogan out for being disingenuous, or inauthentic. Once, I suggested Chris wasn’t very smart, which he didn’t care for (although I think he missed the...
by Jeff Yablon | Nov 16, 2011 | Business Process, Marketing
Last week, I received a connection request from someone I used to work with. This guy was a couple of levels above me during my stint at Verizon Communications, and frankly, we didn’t have a great relationship. In fact, when I was offered a very big promotion...
by Jeff Yablon | Oct 3, 2011 | Business Process, Design, Media
One of the funniest pieces of stand-up comedy I’ve ever come across is by a guy named Ron White. Mr. White’s comedy routine revolves in large part around a southern redneck persona that, while clearly rooted in his real life experiences, I suspect he left...
by Jeff Yablon | Aug 26, 2011 | Business Process, Marketing
When Steve Jobs announced his resignation as CEO at Apple two night ago, the business press all but stopped talking about anything else. And Steve Jobs has had so great an impact on the way what I’ll sum up simply as “computing devices” work that...
by Jeff Yablon | Aug 16, 2011 | Business Process, Marketing
A few months ago I wrote a piece accusing Chris Brogan of being less smart than Gary Vaynerchuk. Chris didn’t like it, and he said so. Because it’s my nature to care about the impact I have on people, it bothered me that I had hurt Mr. Brogan’s...