AI Note-Taking Part 2: Lessons from Five Months of Testing and Refining
I’m noticing a curious trend lately. Instead of sending me e-mail, friends and family are sending me messages through Facebook. My niece (age 17) and nephew (age 20) ignore my […]
I'm noticing a curious trend lately. Instead of sending me e-mail, friends and family are sending me messages through Facebook. My niece (age 17) and nephew (age 20) ignore my e-mails. But when I send either of them a message via Facebook, I'm likely to get a message back. When Facebook [...]
The first night of the Democratic National Convention in Denver was watched by 22 million people who watched the speeches and commentaries on the major networks and cable outlets. Apparently, more people watched the convention proceedings than in previous years. But the real story is the proliferation of [...]
Several times a week, clients and colleagues ask me if they or their boss should be blogging. My answer is usually a resounding Yes!, but I also know that a CEO blog usually involves writing on the part of the CEO and CEOs are rarely excited about adding another regular task to their [...]
Last week, I needed to convert miles to kilometers. A couple of weeks ago, I wanted to find a sushi restaurant in Alexandria. In both cases, I turned to Google. We normally think of Google as a really terrific search engine where you type in a keyword or phrase and get results, but here are my favorite tips for getting the [...]
Lots happening at Matrix Group these days. Matrix Group celebrated nine years in business last May 1, 2008, but we didn't get around to celebrating until a couple of weeks ago. We also launched a redesign of our Web site last Friday. The Web site is not quite where we want [...]
Over the past couple of weeks, my family and I had the opportunity to check out the video on demand services from Apple and Sony. We found the services to be easy to use and competitively priced, but there are still a few kinks to work out in the business models.
Amazon.com is really lucky that Google.com indexes its content and then adds the fabulous Google search algorithms to searches. In order to find something on Amazon.com, I had to find it on Google.com. My son begged me to purchase software based on the Dr. Seuss ABC Book. We had [...]
While preparing for a Matrix Group seminar on usage reports, I decided to get the latest news about Google Analytics and WebTrends on Demand. I found all the information about Google Analytics on the Google site with no problems. The WebTrends site advertised a Fact Sheet that promised more technical details about features and implementation, but I had to register. Okay, [...]
A while back, I signed up for several Google Alerts. Google Alerts is a free service that alerts you when your choice of keywords or phrases shows up on news pages, the Web, blogs, videos, and Google group searches. Google recommends setting up Google Alerts to:
