No such thing as spare time.

No such thing as free time.

No such thing as downtime.

All you got is life time.

Go.

-Henry Rollins

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ITEC 4700: Class 9 – Facebook

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Yesterday was Facebook. Most are very familiar with Facebook as a user but most are not using it for business. I do have a student in class that uses Facebook for their fan page functionality. Chris demoed (yep; that’s how it’s spelled) the “back office” functionality of Facebook fan pages and discovered that out of all the languages represented in the world, they...

Owyang is on the Cluetrain

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For those of us that read the Cluetrain many moons ago, we are increasingly amazed at how well it has held up to the rapid changes the Internet has experienced over the last 10 years. (This book is amazing and is required reading for my class at DU.) At the time of its release, most people we locked into the concept of mass customization; which is now standard on sites such as Puma’s...

Retail 2.0

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I know. I know. Stick ‘2.0’ on the end of anything and it means it’s soooooo different. Most times it is different and this time is no exception. If you’re selling consumer product goods: brace yourself. I’ve posted about the virtual world colliding with the physical world if smart phone growth this year is any condition (110% nationally/148% internationally) there...

Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity (funny yet amazing video)

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I don’t talk much about creativity in this blog but I try to inject creativity into every business process I participate in. Legos are the metaphor I use to get people to understand how mediums/campaigns/partnerships/etc & last but not least: mobile and social can be brought together to create successful products/services. Enjoy the video!

ITEC 4700: Class 8 – Cluetrain Manifesto

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Thursday night we talked about the iPad and whether there was a market for such a device. We then had a team present The Cluetrain Manifesto. They talked about communicating in a transparent & active voice online. I love the 12 step program according to the Cluetrain authors: Relax Have a sense of humor Find your own voice and use it Tell the truth Don’t panic Enjoy yourself Be brave Be...

Random thoughts on the iPad part 2

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I’ve been having conversations with the technical people I work with and how the iPad is going to fail. They site, the lack of multi-tasking, etc . .  blah . . . blah blah. The fact is, it is going to succeed and in a very big way. How do I know this? Do I have a time machine? (It’s broken at the moment.) How can I be so sure? I know this because, when I see some 13 year old girl...

Random thoughts on the iPad

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Apple announced the iPad today and a friend at work (a true Mac Fanatic) was keeping up to date on the announcement. I was getting SMS messages about specs, costs etc. Brent rocks! Nice looking. (No really.) Pictures at the bottom of this post. Comes with a docking station to help type when you have “real work” to do. (Just like digging ditches!) No mouse. From the picture you can see...

ITEC-4700: Class 7 – Twitter

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Twitter! Last night we focused soley on Twitter. Arguably Twitter could be the focus of several classes but hard to do with 10 weeks. We talked briefly about the history of the business and how SXSW 2007 was the tipping point for Twitter. We also discussed how the technology/business was briefly called twitch (as in that is what you did when your mobile device went off.) I like it in only that...