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The Need to Be Right

8 March 2012

A while back, I read an absolutely fantastic post by the authors of Freakanomics (Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner).  The post was titled ‘The Dangers of N=1’  For you non-stats folks, ‘N’ (or ‘n’) is sample size – the number of samples you collect in your experiment.  If you have a ton of samples, and [...]

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The Next

27 February 2012

I recently met Bala Iyer, an Associate Professor of the Technology Operations and Information Management Division at Babson College.  I never had the pleasure of taking a class with him while I was at Babson, and I wish I had.  In any event, you may want to go follow Bala (blog, Twitter, SlideShare), since I [...]

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Talking Social Local Mobile Commerce With Mike Schneider

10 February 2012

On Tuesday, February 8, I attended a Babson Alumni Technology Council (BATC) breakfast event.  The topic was location-based marketing, and more specifically, SoLoMoCo.  Not only is it fun to say, but it stands for Social Local Mobile Commerce.  Mike Schneider (@SchneiderMike on Twitter) presented about an hour’s worth of content on the topic, and then [...]

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Presentation-Finding, Ranking and Tracking the Online Influencers Important to Your Business

5 February 2012

Last week, I was delighted to participate on a panel with the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council’s (MassTLC, if you’re not into typing) social media cluster.  I’m a co-chair of that organization, along with Paul Gillin.  IN this session, we spoke about Finding, Ranking and Tracking the Online Influencers Important to Your Business.  Click on that link [...]

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Subjectively Speaking’s Greatest Clicks of 2011

28 December 2011

The end of the year means a wrap-up post.  Well, not always.  But it is a bit of fun to do a brief retrospective, as it pertains to this blog.  I have three categories this year for you to peruse.   The Five Most Viewed Posts on Subjectively Speaking (Authored in 2011) Of the posts [...]

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Digital Detective: How to Get Smart on Practically Anything on the Internet

6 December 2011

We are awash in the biggest information deluges we’ve ever faced, and its showing no signs of letting up.  That’s both a blessing and a curse, because with loads of content, one needs context.  How can we mine that and make sense of it all for something useful?  This is what I will explain today. [...]

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