http://janetleejohnson.com Technology for Marketers, Marketing for Technologists Fri, 17 Feb 2012 20:58:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It was August of last year when my lovely introduced me to Pinterest. People who are new to it keep saying they get 'lost' easily in Pinterest. Ms. M described it exactly so when she told me about it. I've started using it to collect infographics, and searching for phrases like "beauty" ... http://janetleejohnson.com/2012/02/17/army-poster-pinterest-user/ In an article yesterday, AdAge talked about the struggle of marrying social media and Customer Relations Management (CRM) systems. There's no doubt the technology is there, and social media feeds can easily be linked to individualrecords in CRM systems (like Salesforce.com). The marketer's struggle is pretty much a visualization exercise, ... http://janetleejohnson.com/2012/02/14/marrying-social-media-and-crm/ My life was pretty much transformed when I met the Mac. I discovered technology I could relate to the year the Mac was born, when the two halves of my brain were finally united in a Macintosh 128K. Yesterday, I learned of Steve Jobs' death while sitting at my generations improved ... http://janetleejohnson.com/2011/10/06/rip-steve-jobs/ I read the most fascinating book this summer, by Nicholas Carr, called The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to our Brains. It's up for a Pulitzer prize this year. Here's the deal. Most of us (especially "information workers") have the attention spans of gnats, as adults. And our attention is being pulled ... http://janetleejohnson.com/2011/09/15/are-we-losing-one-of-our-rs/ Talk about mining the best of the world's collective spirit! My lovely has been enchanted by Pinterest for some time. She has been devouring collections of all sorts of things people have collected there. This delightful little community is simply "a virtual pinboard. collect the things you love." Well. Talk about enchantment. In ... http://janetleejohnson.com/2011/08/10/enchanting-pinterest/