GlassDoor.com Company Ratings, Reviews, and Salaries

Remember the days of an HR administrative person who sent the spread sheet of the company payroll out to "All" at XYZ Company?  And remember the fuss about it all?  Well that day has evolved into a social network of sorts  Check out GlassDoor.com Company Ratings, Reviews, and Salaries….yup salaries.

Identity Management Analysis – Are we there yet?

Most definately not.  This is a very brief snap shot of analysis at the current Burton Group Catalyst Conference North America 2008. With over a decade of sustained development on identity management (IdM) technologies, the market is both flourishing and flailing. As IdM vendors swarm around the most lucrative IT projects, the demand for compliance [...]

Single Sign On Digital Identity Unique Identifier Basic Landscape

I wanted to see what the landscape was looking like for digital identity also known as unique identifiers and open id’s and single sign on and managing ones’ identity in a network filled world with several different protocols across several different devices and several different companies.   This post only scratches the surface and does [...]

Wireless Social Networking to Generate Trillions?

This is what one research copmpany says.  $2.5 Trillion by 2020 with including products, services, applications, components and advertising. Here are some amazing claims on the social networking space I found today in reading this press release by iSuppli Corporation (I like the name) iSuppli is a trusted provider of industry market intelligence and advice, [...]

Baby Boomer Purchasing Influenced By Word of Mouth

"Word-of-mouth: Boomers participate in viral or word-of-mouth marketing as much as or more than younger age groups. Ninety-three percent of respondents were very or somewhat likely to share product information or news with friends." As the article states "this is a big surprise" I think not, but it does reaffirm that we use other human [...]

Facebook Addiction for College Students and Workforce Alike?

MSNBC Facebook at Work Article. I’m not sure if it an addiction or just a really sticky site but Facebook has enough interactivity that it is definately altering peoples behavior and taking up a lot of their time.  In this article by MSNBC they discuss the ramifications of workers spending too much time on non [...]

Targeted Mobile Marketing Using Free Conference Calling

This is a slick free conference calling application that is on Facebook.   I have tried this and it works very well.  A great way to make one phone call and ring 5 cell phones at the same time.  While it is ad supported I don’t mind since the price is right….FREE. Party Line is a [...]

Social Media is Direct Response – Viral Advertising is Direct Response

Not everyone should be doing social media marketing.  We all don’t have to be on Facebook and MySpace. At the end of the day all marketers want to engage the consumer and get to "respond."  Social Media is so attractive since users are everywhere and they are engaged.  Typically they are engaged with other like [...]

Mobile Marketer Interview Mickey Alam Khan

Mobile Marketer Podcast Interview With the proliferation of billions of cell phones on the planet we want to take notice of how we can access consumers. In this interview with Mickey Alam Khan you will get clear and concise overview of the mobile marketing space and some the challenges and some of the opportunities. We [...]

Sprint Will Release Samsung Instinct Answer to iPhone June 15th 2008

I was on the phone with Sprint billing support and renewed my contract with them.  The iPhone has made a big impact on the mobile phone industry for sure.  Sprint said that the new Samsung Instinct released at CTIA will be available Jun 15 2008.  Here is a look at it.  My challenge is that [...]