How Your Phone Can Help You Set Better Habits
The right apps and tools to meet your goals.
An Ode to the Underappreciated Spreadsheet
Learn how to use them, and you’ll use them for everything.
An Ode to the Underappreciated Spreadsheet
Learn how to use them, and you’ll use them for everything.
Psychographics Are Just as Important for Marketers as Demographics
Psychographics can be a powerful tool for understanding your customers, supporters or audience. But only if you know how to use them effectively.
How Content Marketers Can Tell Better Stories with Data
Think data journalism is too ambitious for your brand? This Harvard Business Review post spells out what it takes to tell a great data-driven story.
How the Internet made me a better mother
Unlike some full-time working mothers, I’ve never fantasized about staying home with my kids. And yet here I am: close to a full-time working mother in terms of how I spend my hours, but nothing like a full-time working mother in terms of how I spend my days. The most surprising part: I’ve never been happier.
How kids create security risks — and business opportunities
In today’s Wall Street Journal, I outline the security risks posed by the hacker in your house: the child or teen who may be “borrowing” your credit card to make online purchases, downloading viruses or inadvertently open vulnerabilities in your network. That story...
A family Minecraft policy
Minecraft has become a global phenomenon because kids love playing it, and parents and educators praise the way it fuels creativity and learning. But we’ve held off on introducing it to our household because we’re concerned about the compulsive behaviour...
5 questions to ask your kids before introducing Minecraft
Minecraft has become a massively popular game not only with kids, but with parents and educators who applaud its capacity to support creativity and real learning. Yet as much as Minecraft appeals to us as geek parents, we’ve held off on introducing it into our...
8 easy ways to make me (and everyone else) love you more online
We all know the world runs on love. But every day, we squander that love by bugging the living crap out of other people, thanks to our careless interactions with technology. The good news is that there are some simple ways to avoid annoying people online (and off)....About me
I am an independent writer, speaker and researcher, and the author of Work Smarter with Social Media for Harvard Business Review Press. My work focuses on how people and organizations can work smarter and live better online. I am a regular contributor to The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor's Passcode, JSTOR Daily and The Harvard Business Review, and I am represented for speaking engagements by the Lavin Agency.