Archive for the ‘Influence’ Category

How to Protect Your Online Privacy

There is no quick fix for online privacy protection. Unfortunately the internet is not an opt-in universe where the user has the power to check a box of whether or not to allow data tracking companies to track her clicks across the web. What you’ll realize in reading this article that what most people don’t ...Read more.

Content With Benefits: The Top 10 Strategic Content Marketing Tips You Need to Know (Part 1)

Posted by Brett Greene | Filed under Influence, Marketing, Social Media | Apr 9, 2012 | Tags: content marketing, content strategy, content tips, digital marketing, social media tips | 1 Comment

Content marketing should be a key ingredient in your social media and digital marketing recipe. It takes a lot of time, but when it’s done correctly it can be the gift that keeps on giving. Great content begets great benefits; people – even prospects and customers – will like you more, your employees will be ...Read more.

Why Your Brand Needs to be on Pinterest

Posted by Brett Greene | Filed under Influence, Marketing, Social Media | Feb 23, 2012 | Tags: Bing, hitwise, linkedin, pinterest, retail, social marketing, Social Media, social media marketing, Yahoo, youtube | No Comments

In less than two years since it’s launch, Pinterest has blasted off to be one of the fastest growing social networks of all time. At the end of 2011 the site was listed by Hitwise as one of the top 10 social networks when it had grown to 11.7 million monthly unique visitors. This made ...Read more.

Death Sucks, and We Forget That It’ll Happen to Us Too

Posted by Brett Greene | Filed under Influence, Life | Jan 25, 2012 | Tags: cancer, caring bridge, death, dying, health | 4 Comments

One of the greatest days of my life was last October when I found a dear friend from my teenage years on Facebook. I had been looking for Chris on Facebook for over four years. Through my high school years we had many adventures that were capped off with following U2′s Joshua Tree tour from ...Read more.

Job Creation and Innovation in Jeopardy From SOPA and PIPA Congressional Bills

Posted by Brett Greene | Filed under Influence, Internet, Money, Politics | Jan 14, 2012 | Tags: American Express, Aol, Congress, Congressional Bills, Discover, Ebay, Etsy, facebook, foursquare, google, internet, linkedin, Motion Picture Association Of America, Movie Studios, Mozilla, Mpaa, Music Industry, Opendns, Paypal, Pipa, Recording Industry Association Of America, Riaa, Senate, Sopa, Television Studios, twitter, Visa, Wikimedia Foundation, Yahoo, Zynga | No Comments

Two bills being voted on next week in the House of Representatives contain language that could censor the Internet in ways you would never imagine. The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House of Representatives and the Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate are well meaning, but if passed, will be destructive to internet freedoms we’ve all ...Read more.

Stimulate the Economy by Forgiving Student Loan Debts

Posted by Brett Greene | Filed under Influence, Money | Oct 24, 2011 | Tags: debt, debt elimination, debt forgiveness, economic stimulus, Federal Student Loans, occupy wall street, student loan debt, student loans, We Are The 99% | 7 Comments

All attempts so far to create economic policies to stimulate the economy have failed. The economic stimulus act of 2008 proved to be a partial success or absolute failure depending on whose opinion you agree with. Regardless of how this act affected banks like Goldman Sachs and Bank of America, the American people only noticed their economic ...Read more.

[Video] The Impact & Influence of Steve Jobs

Posted by Brett Greene | Filed under Influence | Aug 25, 2011 | Tags: apple, apple computer, apple lisa, steve jobs, steve jobs life, steve jobs retirement | No Comments

From the Apple I and Apple Lisa (the first computer to use a graphic interface) to Toy Story, the iPad2 and everything in between, Steve Jobs has impacted our lives in more ways than I can count. Hearing of his illness and then of his resignation as Apple’s CEO has both saddened me and reminded me ...Read more.