Straight Talk | Ted Rubin

Sandi Smith August 16 at 11:09pm My dad passed away 5 years ago totally unexpectedly~ He suffered from dementia for the latter part of his life and didn’t really know who I was……BUT always had something special and wonderful to say to me. He spent the last 2 weeks of his life in Toronto…..A week [...]

In his recent must-read post, “The Dog Days of Social Media,” Drew Neisser reminds us that just because Facebook has lost some fans,  and Forrester “recommends a cautious approach to Foursquare,” we shouldn’t panic and jump off the social media ship. I agree wholeheartedly with Drew and appreciate his addressing such a timely topic. “Dog Days,” [...]

We’re hearing (and doing) more and more about “Relationship Commerce” these days — but what does that really mean? Does having 2,000 Facebook “friends” or “fans” mean you have 2000 relationships? Or 28,000 Twitter “followers” mean 28,000 relationships?   It depends. Any one of us obviously does not have time to keep up thousands of face-to-face [...]