I just cancelled my Lynda.com membership. I think Lynda.com is great. You can learn just about any software program, lessons are taught through video, and the lessons are far more exhustive than their competition. I have tried Codecademy and Team Tree House. Codecademy is great, but they only teach a few programming languages, which are far from exhaustive. Codecademy is free, so I can understand why they have such a limited curriculum. Team Tree House is good, but it costs…
I think one of the coolest business intellegence tools is a customer relationship manager (CRM). I have a friend that is a sales manager that has told me he couldn't do his job without a CRM. It has become as intregal to sales and marketing as a finance ERP like SAP is to finance organizations. A large number of the marketing roles I have applied for have required experience with a CRM. I recently completed Google's Google Analytics Individual Qualification…
There are so many companies that help analyze Twitter data, including Twitter's analysis page, which I just found. A couple weeks ago I had Simply Measured run a free report on my Twitter data. Honestly, a lot of it I could have told you before I looked. But it confirmed what I already know. There are a ton of social tools out there, I have a list of social tools you can check out. Here is what I learned from…
I don't have a lot of apps on my phone. At least considering how many apps are out there. And of the apps on my phone, there are only a few I use daily. One of those is Instagram. And a very real reason for that is Humans of New York. Humans of New York (HONY) are photographs by Brandon Stanton. I don't know if he wrote the book first, or if it started as a project on Instagram. He…
Yesterday I went to talk to a recruiter. Before we met, I was asked to fill out some paperwork. Pretty typical. One was a legal document several pages long on one topic, mandatory arbitration. Basically, mandatory arbitration says you are agreeing to not settle legal disputes in a US court room but through arbitration instead. One issue I have with that is that presumably the other party, in this case the recruiter, hires the arbitrator so I feel they would…
From time to time I pull up comScore's Online Video Rankings. It has some useful info like viewers of the top 10 online video properties, top YouTube channels, and top video ad properties. One of the things that I don't understand is why Yahoo doesn't get more serious about video and why Apple is a no show. Thought I would share some of what I found. Monthly viewers is up this year (taking a 10 month average) to 188 million…
I am going to admit two things that, for me, are hard to admit. First, I am a fan of Taylor Swift. I'm listening to Blank Space as I write this. In the past, I have always been vocally anti top 40. I have traditionally had the same opinion of top 40 as I do of McDonalds: it's shit but somehow millions love it and will pay for it. Second, I paid for Spotify. That's hard to admit because Spotify…
I was recently asked by an attorney that wanted to know what I could do and things he could do to improve his site traffic. He also wanted an idea how long each of these tasks would take me. I decided to write this post on a basic overview of SEO and Social Marketing and outline what I can do and help with. If you are interested in help, I would love to help you with your site. Feel free…
You know what creates jobs? New businesses. I have heard people argue that it doesn’t and that is crazy. I am trying to start a business and it will create 13 new jobs in Texas. And don’t you think the jobs they leave will probably need to replace them? All this creates a greater demand on the workforce, lowers unemployment, the increase in demand on the workforce raises the average income per capita. And the people with new, higher paying…
Let me get right to the point. I think the aliens won. This is a great movie. Everyone is comparing it to Groundhogs Day because of the time loop, but it also reminded me of the book Ender’s Game. The reason it reminds me of Ender’s Game is because the aliens are looping time for a reason. Why are they looping time? To refine their strategy. By starting over, they get to correct their mistakes. This advantage is passed through…