I’m helping out with the Trend Agenda conference tomorrow.

Trend Agenda is about the juicy intersection between change, culture and business. The social and cultural markers of change are viewed through a variety of lenses � technology, science, art, trends, futures research, design, economics and marketing. We must consider all of these to gain a complete [...]

I met Kyle Shannon long ago — 1996 I think — at one of Jerry Michalski’s high-tech retreats.

He just stumbled upon my Small Business Blogging site and wrote to tell me he’s got a new gig, Invention Asylum (“… a product design, development and marketing company”) and that he and his partners are keeping a [...]

From a posting in Lee LeFever’s Commoncraft blog about the paper Blogging the Market: How weblogs are turning corporate machines into real conversations by George N. Dafermos. (80 page pdf available, too.)

“Overall, it’s an optimistic view of the power of weblogs to challenge business marketing and strategy, internal communication, innovation, etc. provided through examples [...]

I’ve recently come across these weblogs that are offering a variety of information and services for small businesses. I can’t recommend them yet because I don’t know the individuals personally nor have I spent much time with their blogs. Are they competitors? Maybe, but the pie is surely big enough for all of us. Plus, [...]