Facebook and the “Close” Factor

  A few weeks ago, the folks at Pew Internet released a study: Social Networking Sites and Our Lives. The study comes on the heels of recent claims that social networks have a negative effect on our ability to trust and connect with others both online and...

Get With the Times

    My workday always started the same: a venti Starbucks with a side of the top dailies. I came into work at least two hours early to allow for time to devour all the news that’s fit to print. After all, reading a broadsheet on the bus was simply not...

Social Road Mapping

Making decisions in isolation is rarely a good idea especially decisions that impact other people. Let’s review a few possible scenarios, both big and small and see the cause and effect of isolated decision making. Isolated Decision 1:  You stop at the fireworks store...