When someone clicks on an ad, well . . . we all know he or she’s not exactly making a binding show of interest. When someone tries to read a 10,000-word nonfiction text document, on the other hand, he’s committing a fair amount of time to the author. So LinkedIn is implementing the somewhat clever idea of making white papers act as ads.
Connecting Digg with Facebook
Back when Facebook Connect launched, Digg was among the names mentioned that would be utilizing the feature. Nothing has happened with that (at least publicly) until now. Digg has now gotten connected with Facebook Connect.
ABC: Always Be Connecting, Securely, With Gmail
With apologies to Alec Baldwin and his epic dialogue in Glengarry Glen Ross, Google promises to always be covering connections to Gmail with encryption, or not, at a user’s discretion.
Improving Odds of Connecting w/ Your Target Market
Kim Krause Berg had a interesting additional thought to my post about eye tracking. Her question, "What happens when your target market gets up on the wrong side of the bed?".
Connecting the Lease Enterprise Through Lease Management Software
Information Technology has improved the leasing process, parts at a time. Every company has evolved some manner of maintaining customer information.
Connecting Google Boxes To Cubes
When last we left the inestimable Robert X Cringely, he had announced the big shipping container slash portable data centers secreted away in Google’s parking garage; his newest column claims little cubes with lots of I/O ports and connectivity will connect those containers to Internet users.
Connecting With Others Through Citizen Publishing
You’ve probably heard these concerns expressed before. You might even have voiced them yourself.
Connecting Smart Devices on the Internet
The idea that by the year 200x there will be more smart devices on the Internet than people has become widely accepted. You can already see it if you look at the most integrated manufacturing facilities. Everything from the factory floor up is being connected using web technologies. If connecting a smart device can create substantial customer value and you do not do it, your competitors will. So the questions in many cases is not should I do it, but how should I do it?
Connecting One To One
You’re probably in business to make as many sales as practical and build a better life for yourself and loved ones. In order to make those sales you need to reach as many targeted prospects as possible with your message. Yet, your message must get through to your prospects one… at …. a ….. time. It’s individuals that read your message, think about it, and react to it. They react to your message once they connect with you and feel an appropriate emotion based upon the content of your messages. So the real key to your on-line success is connecting with your prospects one-at-a-time or one-to-one.
Connecting Networks Together
If you manage a small network, you might have never considered the complexities involved in connecting networks together. The idea of wide area networking might seem way beyond the scope of anything that your small network could ever require. However, there may come a time when you need to connect two or more small networks together. Even if these small networks reside within the same building, you can run into some unexpected consequences if you try to connect the two networks without proper planning.