I am impressed by the folks at BufferApp.com. Today they were hacked. We’ve heard plenty of horror stories about privacy breaches resulting in identity theft and the like when a business or organization gets hacked, and yet rarely do they reach out to alert you. It seems like they are usually trying to cover it …
This is for those of you who do not have a Dropbox account yet. And those of you that do, I’ve got a tip for you too. Over the past 10 years the growth in computing devices has sky rocketed. Most of us have gone from having a desktop computer at work to also having …
It happened to a friend of mine recently. She posted a picture via Twitter. But it was not the picture she wanted to share with the world. (No, it wasn’t one of those kind of pictures.) It was her combination to her new lock. She didn’t even realize it and probably never would have known …
I seem to be continuing a theme of how our privacy is affected by internet companies that we more or less trust. You can read what I wrote about the Privacy Tradeoff and Web Trust earlier this week. Today the discussion continues because some friends of mine started the discussion on Facebook and got me …
Yesterday, I addressed the issue of a Privacy Tradeoff. The slant I took was we have been giving away our private information for a long, long time and it’s not something we can reverse, nor should we fear it unless we are living a secret life that we don’t others to know about. Today, let’s …
This past week Facebook and Google either made changes or announced they were going to be making changes with how they use your information. It has some folks up in arms. I’ve seen posts on Facebook pages asking people to untag them from photos and stuff. It’s a form letter and it’s silly. Here’s why: …
A couple of discussions recently about Gmail prompted me to write and share this with you today. First of all, let’s talk about how Gmail works. This also applies to Yahoo mail and the multiple Microsoft based versions of hotmail they keep coming out with. All of these emails are cloud based services, before they …
1st off, I’m actually writing this on the same day it is going to appear online, which for me is not the norm. It’s Saturday and the 3 day Labor Day weekend has begun. Since I work for a company that keeps regular business hours, we get Monday off as a paid holiday. But due …
For every hundred companies that are trying to figure out how to make money using Social Media, there are a thousand who are not trying. Some are playing around with it, but have no clue as to what to do with it. Others are looking at social media as something they should do. And there …
I spoke to a class full of students at Huntington University a few years ago about Social Media and gave them some insight into how easy it was for me to uncover tidbits of information about them. These days the expectation of privacy seems to have vanished, but what we post online lives forever. And …
Okay, the word saga provokes the feel of drama and that’s not really what this is about. Instead I want to encourage you to make plans to attend a monthly meeting in Northeast Indiana that occurs 11 months out of the year, consistently on the last last Tuesday of the month from 7:30 to 9am. …
Just a quick one on this subject. If the firm you are considering hiring uses AOL as their email… No. Worse yet, they don’t have their own domain, their main website is an old MySpace page…Hell No.
Last month I took in a Fort Wayne TinCaps baseball game, two weeks in a row. That’s not like me. I’ll go a couple times a year but not that often. It’s a great stadium and I promised my friend Ron I would go with him. I picked a Monday night game and off we …
I’m guessing that only about 25% of the people reading this today know what a QR code is. I’ve talked about them in the past and you can see the articles by going here. What was an up and coming bit of technology is now falling out of favor, it seems. On a recent Sunday, …
Very few messages are effective if they are only presented one time. Seth Godin wrote about this recently and said, There’s a lot to be said for conditioning your audience to listen carefully. If they know that valuable information is only going to come at them once, they’ll be more alert for it. Alas, as the nois-o-sphere …
Some of you have asked me about the change I made recently on this site, right under my name where it now says Social Media Magician from the Land of ScLoho. What kind of a made up goofy title is that? A couple months ago I walked away from my full time profession in advertising …
Let’s say your Uncle Steve offers you $200,000 with a few conditions. First off, you don’t get to keep it. You have to spend it. You have to spend it in 24 hours. You can not spend it on anything “tangible”. You have to spend it on some form of marketing. Recently I found out …
Over the weekend I noticed that a website I needed to access was down. Or maybe it was a problem with my internet connection. This can be a source of frustration that involves checking routers, restarting computers, redoing this or that and perhaps wasting a bunch of time. Before you go through all the motions, …
Time to re-introduce you to the whole ScLoHo. But first what’s a ScLoHo? ScLoHo is a made up word that is a mash-up of my first, middle and last names. Take the 1st two letters of Scott Louis Howard and you get ScLoHo. How do you pronounce ScLoHo? It’s just two syllables = Sclo-Ho with …
On the 11th of January I have updated an article I wrote 16 months ago: Make sure you fill out your Twitter Profile completely including a link to a site that tells us more about you. Yes, we are going to judge you, we want to see who you are and why we would want …
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