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I’m working on a survey with a research team from my alma mater – Augustana College (we made the Final Four, baby!) – on the topic of organizational journalism.  This is a high-fallutin’ word for all the news and updates people post to their websites. I’ll be discussing the results in part at the Now What Conference [...]

Did Steve Jobs Pick the Wrong Tablet Size?: Interesting discussion over at Slashdot. Steve Jobs famously dissed the 7-inch tablets being rolled out by competitors, including Samsung’s Galaxy, as being ‘tweeners: too big to compete with a smartphone and too small to compete with the [9.7-inch diagonal] iPad,’ adding that ‘the current crop of 7-inch [...]

Some People Still Get It, How To Let Vendors Down The Right Way: I loved this post from Jon Kee over at Ektron about how they lost a deal and what happened next. […] I hate losing. And after this effort, I am disappointed that we weren’t selected. However, two things happened that made it [...]

Some time ago, I wrote a post optimistically called The Unique Challenges of CMS Support, Part I.  In it, I explained that content management usually requires integration, so when there’s a problem, it’s sometimes difficult to figure out if it’s a problem with the product or the implementation. I ended that post with: Coming in [...]

Proposals are hard.  Second only to networking, they’re the biggest part of my job, and also the worst.  I get acute stress about dialing down an entire project to a single number.  It’s stressful.  It is not something I want to screw up. Earlier this week, I was done with a proposal…except for the number.  [...]

How to Make a Dead Cat Bounce on Twitter: This article has some good advice for how to promote an article on Twitter. Weather plays an important role, too. On a weekend, I will actually go to weather sites before sharing an article. If it’s raining, most people are cooped up inside, so I can [...]

The Galaxy Note is generally the punchline of a joke for two reasons.  First, it has a stylus.  Second, it’s big – probably the biggest phone on the market.  The screen is 5.3 inches, which makes it an entirely new class of device – a mixture of phone and tablet.  A “phablet.” I do not [...]