Shared social value is comprised of three elements that all come together to strengthen a company’s social business front:  those three aspects are technology, marketing, and social streams.  All of them are of equal importance, and they will be absolutely critical to all companies that want to stay fresh and relevant through 2012.  You might have noticed in reading some of the more popular business magazines so far that...

If you’re a Facebook user, you have probably unfriended someone at some point in time.  If not, you at least have probably logged on before and noticed that your number of friends mysteriously decreased by one, but you couldn’t tell who it was who unfriended you.  So you went searching madly through your friends list hoping to notice someone who isn’t there anymore.  Then you couldn’t figure out who it was, so you...

In a recent survey of more than 500 moms, the women all reported that they are somewhat to completely dependent on their smart phones in ways that moms of ages past would probably not have been able to grasp in their wildest imaginations.  The uses these modern moms are finding for smart phones include keeping themselves and their families organized, staying connected with their husbands and kids throughout the day, and making sure...

Oh boy!  iOS 5 will be released later today, and iPhone users have been waiting patiently for this day for several months.  But why should you update?  For one thing, Apple has added so many new features to this free update, it’s hard to believe it’s free.  Blackberry style messaging through iMessage brings functionality and the ability to send messages freely between people with iOS devices, independently of carrier...

I’ve been spending too much time reading all the Mac rumor sites, peeling over every single article or lead that might offer even a fleeting hint at what the next iPhone model will look like, feel like, taste like.  I’m obsessed with the iPhone and have been for some years now, but I’m also a typical Mac fanboy, so my entire arsenal of personal technology is Mac.  I carry my original iPad everywhere I go.  I use a...