by Mark O'Brien | Apr 22, 2015
The image above has been making the rounds in various web media for a while — LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, et al. In the interest of giving proper credit for the image, I searched for attribution for its creator and could find none. Nevertheless, I use it here to...
by Mark O'Brien | Apr 15, 2015
Don’t look now, kids, but we have two more abbreviations to worry about: PII (personally identifiable information) and GRC (governance, risk management, and compliance). I don’t mean to suggest we should be worried about what they denote. Rather, I mean...
by Mark O'Brien | Apr 14, 2015
This post, which I offered with tongue firmly in cheek, reminded me of an article I read almost two years ago, in which: Graphic designer and artist Johnny [Kid Tartan] Plaid … envisioned a drastic update for the iPhone 6. The iPhone 6 hadn’t yet become...
by Mark O'Brien | Apr 10, 2015
The only thing more amazing than the things for which we fall is the length of time for which we continue to fall for them. Given the popularity of inbound marketing and marketing automation, I’d have imaged them to be relatively new phenomena. I’d have...
by Mark O'Brien | Apr 9, 2015
Is any tired rhetorical trope more trite and trivial than making a difference? “We’re making a difference.” “Let’s make a difference.” “One person can make a difference.” “Our company is making a difference.”...
