3 results for tag: Social Media
A Call for Mindfulness in Our Modern World
I love people, all kinds of people. I’m as near as I can recall a fourth generation White Male of European (Polish Ancestry) decent that we know of on my Mother’s side (circa 1896). It's time for us to promote thoughts of mindfulness.
As you know I am frequently traveling around the world with most of my travel time spent in Europe and Asia. My travels allow me to experience and absorb different cultures and beliefs that suggest and determine how people might behave. I have friendships with all types of people with different and sometimes opposing perspectives on how one should live their lives.
I believe that opinions are personal and ...
Privacy in the Digital Age: When the Product is Free … You are the Product
This has been known in most Web 2.0 (Wikipedia) circles since it’s inception. Products, Services, and Information with Internet portals like Facebook, SnapChat, LinkedIn, Twitter, and nearly all other social media channels modern communication forms; notable are Google’s slate of “Free” offerings; in essence “The Deal”: “We will provide you this awesome tool for free” and in exchange you must agree to certain requirements (your privacy), usually your data.
Web 2.0 refers to World Wide Web websites that emphasize user-generated content, usability (ease of use, even by non-experts), and interoperability (this means that a website ...
CFOs Try to Focus on Strategy, but Information Technology Systems (IT) Get in the Way
A number of our Financial Professionals and CFOs expect to evolve their Information Technology (IT) for their Firms in the coming year, but some are dreading the journey via clunky legacy systems.
Frequently information technology (IT) for CFOs and finance professionals and sometimes for entrepreneurs can be a “Black-Box”. Throughout our offices, we hear “I know I have to have it, but I don’t understand how it works.”
Why buy into something that’s good today and obsolete tomorrow? As a responsible business leader overseeing an Enterprise System, I expect that I’m going to make an investment into an IT System that I ...