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The suffering of technology users

December 7, 2010

I love this paragraph because I think it distills and represents the pain and suffering so many people now feel around the role of technology in their lives: I like technology just as much as the next person, but sometimes I find myself feeling overwhelmed with it all. I rely on technology everyday to do [...]

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The next tech revolution is here and now

March 22, 2010
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The next tech revolution is underway. It’s not the dawn of the semantic web, or the mobile web, or web 3.0 or any of these buzzwords. This revolution is about the people using technology, not the technology itself. It seems like the tech industry is finally waking up to the fact that most actual human [...]

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Contact

January 16, 2010

I consult, write and speak on social media, digital business and on tech-enabled personal transformation and social change. If you are interested in booking a keynote, please contact my friends at The Lavin Agency, my speakers bureau. You can see my speaker’s bio and topics here.  You can also visit Social Signal to find out more about my [...]

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Contact Alex

January 16, 2010

I write and speak on social media and on the use of technology for personal transformation and social change. If you’re organizing an event or conference please get in touch to book me for keynotes or workshops. You can also visit Social Signal to find out more about my workshops and presentations. Contact information: E-mail: [...]

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The geek’s guide to child-proofing: how to keep your tech safe from baby

November 30, 2009

With the wisdom earned from six years’ of childraising, two destructive children and four or five figures’ worth of maimed technology, I’d like to weigh in on the neglected side of childproofing. Because once you’ve figured out how to keep your baby safe from your stuff, it’s time to figure out how to keep your stuff safe from baby.

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Making technology vs. using technology

November 18, 2009

I had a great conversation today with Glen Lowry about making: you know, making actual stuff, like objects or art, as opposed to quasi-making (like writing or thinking). I found myself replaying our conversation this evening when my attempt to write a blog post turned into yet another evening of tinkering with my blogging software. [...]

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How to use social media to support your personal and business goals and relationships

August 4, 2009

Stop keeping up.

That’s the central message of my latest post for Harvard Business Online, in which I argue that we’re seduced by the relentless flood of must-have social networks, applications and gadgets. We focus on keeping up with the latest thing, instead of focusing on what’s important to us and looking for the technologies that support our own personal and business priorities.

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5 reasons to send Direct Messages on Twitter

March 10, 2009

In answer to a question posted in LinkedIn, I’ve offered five reasons to use Twitter’s DM function — including to communicate something that is too short to be worth emailing.

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Research and writing

September 19, 2008

I have written on technology issues for the Toronto Star, Business 2.0 magazine, the Chronicle of Higher Education, CBC radio (PDF) and the Vancouver Sun (for which I was a columnist) . Selected clippings and coverage Trying to build an online community? Don’t get tangled in a Web (PDF) The Globe and Mail, March 3, [...]

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Halfway to hex: Anniversary gifts for geeks

July 28, 2008

To celebrate our half-hex wedding anniversary, we created a new, geek-friendly set of recommended anniversary gifts.

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Kris Krug on Web 2.0 at STT

June 22, 2008

Technology and copyright

Technology is obsoleting copyright law. Encourages people to use Creative Commons for all their work.

» bonus tip: When publishing with Creative Commons, use the attribution noncommercial license, which means that any non-profit can republish your content, as long as they credit you as the original author (or photographer). But businesses won’t be allowed to take your content and make money with it.

Promote ownership of your brand

Let people remix your content. Give them creative assets to work with.

Let go of control. Don’t make the mistake the music industry made — trying to loc down their content, and alienating their fans.

Document everything

If it didn’t happen on the Internet, it didn’t happen.

The power of open source

Open source software development is inherently tied to social change. They are building things for the common grood while working around traditional power models.

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