Culture has been credited as a key component to the success of many startups and it is often the most difficult to get right. In my own experience and observation, the hardest task in implementing a positive culture in a startup is how questions are handled. Entrepreneurs are in the position they are because they are natural problem solvers. They have a desire that often borders on a compulsion to make the world a better place, to problem solve. Fixing a problem isn’t always

When individuals and clients are first introduced to Twitter the first question I ask them is to determine if they are going to be a Twitter Consumer or Twitter Producer. Why that is important is at the core of what a person is going to get out of Twitter. Which then dictates how a person uses Twitter. The Numbers Twitter may claim to be a micro-blogging platform, but for most people Twitter’s main value is that of an automated search engine; a way of outsourcing to others th

As social media has taken over the world with Facebook one of the key players in the New World Social Order (pardon the jest on NWO), they are now making waves in the world of news by opening their Instant News globally to all publishers. This signifies how social media continues to drastically change the world we live and work in, and what does this mean for the future of news, press outlets, blogs and bloggers? Will this increase the level of news, lower new quality, or lev