Project Managers: Lose the Attitude

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Project Managers: Lose the Attitude
By Keith Mathis – PM Expert Live
People have debated for years whether attitude impacts behavior or behavior impacts attitude. Regardless of which comes first, changing one will eventually affect the other. If we help employees change their behavior, their attitudes will be changed over time as well. This shift is often […]

Twitter And Facebook Are Turning Publishers Into Ghost Writers

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pulp-ghost1 Publishers are in danger of becoming dumb content in the smart pipes of platforms like Facebook and Twitter. The quest for smoother user experience seems to pose actually visiting a publisher’s site as friction. With content consumption being redfined, there’s plenty of eyeballs out there, but it’s getting tougher to win the hearts of readers. Previously, the platforms… Read More

Twitter, Facebook, And The Case Of The Ghost Publisher

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pulp-ghost1 Publishers are in danger of becoming dumb content in the smart pipes of platforms like Facebook and Twitter. The quest for smoother user experience seems to pose actually visiting a publisher’s site as friction. With content consumption being redfined, there’s plenty of eyeballs out there, but it’s getting tougher to win the hearts of readers. Previously, the platforms… Read More

How Facebook Moments Is Solving The “Other People’s Photos” Problem

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Facebook Moments Could Facebook’s experimental group, Facebook Creative Labs, finally have a hit on its hand with its private, photo-sharing app Facebook Moments? The early data looks promising. The app, which lets you get photos from friends and share photos in return, while also organizing them privately on your phone for safe-keeping, seems to have solved one of the long-standing challenges with… Read More

Flipboard Co-Founder Evan Doll Has Left The Company

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flipboard-money Co-founder Evan Doll is no longer at Flipboard, the company has confirmed to TechCrunch and has just announced in a blog post. He will be joining Redpoint Ventures as an entrepreneur-in-residence. His role as head of Flipboard’s head of client engineering will be taken over by Troy Brant, who has been handling the job lately. Read More

Skype Now Lets Anyone Join A Chat Even If They Don’t Have An Account

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skype-3-way-image Skype is working to make is service more broadly accessible, Microsoft announced today, detailing a new feature that will allow users to invite anyone – even those who don’t have a Skype account – to use the service via the Skype for Web interface. Invitees won’t have to create an account or download an app, but can instead join a chat as a guest simply by clicking a link. Read More

Twitter Unveils New Reports For Businesses To Track Whether Their Ads Worked

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twitter-analytics1 Twitter is giving advertisers a new way to measure the effectiveness of their campaigns. The company is making this data available through what it’s calling conversion lift reports. Those reports are supposed to measure whether Twitter ads actually lead to an improvement in whatever business metric you’re focused on, whether it’s website clicks/signups, mobile app installs… Read More

Top 5 Tips for Screwing Up Project Planning

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Top 5 Tips for Screwing Up Project Planning
By Martin Webster
Some time ago I was accused of patronizing a project manager. Perhaps I was. But, I’m not apologizing.
Here’s why…
Why Project Planning Is Critical to Success
Project planning is of vital importance for achieving results. And, when I observe a project manager who fails to plan, I am […]

Niantic Raises $20M From Google, Pokémon Company, And Nintendo

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niantic-nintendo Just about two months ago, the maker of the popular-with-nerds game Ingress, Niantic Labs, was spun out of Google. Last month, the newly formed Niantic, Inc. announced that it had begun working on a project called Pokémon GO. Today? The company is announcing a $20M Series A round of funding with investments from Pokémon Company Group, Google and Nintendo. It could see $10M more if it… Read More

Live GIF Turns iPhone 6s Live Photos Into Shareable GIFs

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Live GIF It was only a matter of time — and frankly not that much time — before a developer stepped in to make it super simple for iPhone 6s/6s Plus users to spread their Live Photos all over the Internets. After all, what’s the point of having clips of your cat/kid doing cute stuff if they’re mostly languishing on your camera roll, rather than helping populate Giphy et al? Read More