It has been intriguing to see the comments and analysis of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) over the past few weeks. For the most part, this legislation has been viewed as a speech squelching, entrepreneur killing, economy halting piece of legislation. After personally reading SOPA (yes, all 78 pages), I find some merit to these arguments and it appears that too much power would be put into the hands of the government and allow them to compel and force online businesses to shut down portions (or all) [...]
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SOPA – The Pirates Are Coming to Loot…Are you Ready to be Plundered?
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Staffers Gone Wild – Protecting Your Business from Damaging Social Media Content
Dec 20 2011Recently, an episode of “Staffers Gone Wild” played out on the internet with the unbelievable tweets of government staff members being broadcast for all to see. Isn’t it comforting to know that your hard earned tax dollars are being spent to fund the watching of Nirvana videos or support drinking while on the job? I’m not here to talk about the politics of this behavior, as I will leave that up to the political pundits [...]
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Killer Competitive Research – Going Beyond Back Links and SpyFu
Dec 12 2011I got asked a lot of great questions at Pubcon after my Competitive Intelligence session a while back, so I wanted to take some time and answer a lot of those questions here. If anyone else had questions that were not answered, or I just forgot (in my defense there were A LOT of questions) feel free to fire them away in the comments. Hopefully this covers everyone that came up to me and asked [...]
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How to Work Your Way Out of Corporate America Hell
Dec 08 2011Yes, this is a post targeted directly at some of my closest friends who are still tied down by the chains of Corporate America. I probably don’t speak to them often enough; it’s not because I don’t like them, it’s simply because each time we meet and begin talking, the conversation turns negative nine times out of ten. Why is this you might ask? I personally don’t think I’m a negative guy. In fact, [...]
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