Here’s a roundup of all the interesting things we found online this week:
For everyone who is not Lionel Richie, a blog post about photos of you on your web site.
“…the relationship can start — just a little bit — when they recognize you in person before they walk in the door the first time.”
The world isn’t so bad. There are nice people out there.
What is “the internet of things?” It’s non-computer items that connect to the web. You’d be surprised at some of the ones coming to us in the next decade: http://read.bi/HFoNUH
“In Cincinnati, residential waste volume fell 17% and recycling volume grew by 49% through use of a ‘pay as you throw’ program that used IoT technology to monitor those who exceed waste limits.”
These “3 things you should never say” apply to working with your consultants and with your clients, too!
“Well, guess what happens when you tell people often enough not to bring you any bad news or surprises? They don’t bring you any bad news or surprises. Does that mean that all of a sudden there isn’t any bad news items or surprises going around? Of course not.”
The best part of my job is when my clients tell me “wow, that was way easier than I expected!” How about you?
“In other words, whenever you feel down or stressed, you can make your own day by asking yourself: What do I like best about my job?”
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA! Fox News has a crazy web site, yo.
Of course, you could also spend your time online trying to improve the world: http://bit.ly/19CytKw
“how do you make someone else’s day a little easier or brighter while you’re spending some time on the (ahem, often time-sucking) Internet?”
Ok, I buried the lead here. Joomla 3.2 is out!
WordPress’ free hosting is not so much actually free, when it comes down to it.
Not talking about politics, I swear, but we all know healthcare.gov didn’t have a great soft launch, hard launch, or first week. Why? We can only speculate that it was poor planning.
Best of the week? I’m late to this story, but in 2011, a rural hunter-gatherer friended a reporter on Facebook. Woah.
“Of course I accepted the request and was immediately gifted an entrance ticket to a remarkable corner of Facebook – a place where friends comment upon each other’s walls in Papua New Guinea’s wonderful lingua franca, Tok Pisin (a language that started life as a pidgin and is just about translatable if you say it out loud), tag each other in photos of their relatives’ scarification ceremonies (the most disturbing albums you’ll ever spy on Facebook), and post each other links of mining companies’ press announcements (so that they can challenge the frequent ambitions of multinationals to ruin their homeland).”
Stay tuned on our Facebook and Twitter pages next week — and every week — for all the things that get stuck in our web.