Archive for August, 2009

Kindle Textbooks? Never Going to Happen if Amazon Keeps This Up
Sunday, August 9th, 2009

I’ve written about how the Kindle and other ebook readers might replace traditional textbooks, and what the companies can do to make electronic textbooks successful. But, those articles assumed that the technology would be totally dependable. If people worry — even for a second — that their notes might just disappear if they start using [...]

Article: Should Your Interns Manage Your Twitter Account?
Thursday, August 6th, 2009

Do you really want to have an intern running your company’s Twitter account? That’s the question I address in a new post up on BNET. In addition to weighing the pros and cons of Twit-erns, I give tips on how to best utilize your Twitter account — regardless of who is at its helm. Here’s [...]

Get Around Those Pesky Attachment File Size Limits
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

Spend enough time on corporate or ISP provided email, and eventually you’re going to run into a situation where the file you need to send is too big — you click ‘send’ and get an error message, and the person you’re sending it to gets nothing. These caps on email attachment size often aren’t explicitly [...]