Aug 09
Researchers have tracked Tweets to see which part of the country is happy or if our mood changes during the week. Here is evidence that retailers will use sales information to change the way merchandise in their stores is organized. I think this is how Wal-Mart “realized” consumers were having stay-cations.
At the height of the recession in 2008, Wal-Mart Stores realized that consumers were “cocooning” — vacationing in their yards, eating more dinners at home, organizing family game nights. So it responded by grouping items in its stores that would turn any den into an at-home movie theater or transform a backyard into a slice of the Catskills. Wal-Mart wasn’t just selling barbecues and board games. It was selling experiences.
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Feb 10
Therapists and many other independent professionals need to keep a clear line between their professional relationship with clients, not stepping over the line into being friends.
Many therapists are asking how to draw the line on dual relationships when they are also active on social media, and a client sends them a friend request.
For a great resource on how to respond when clients send a “friend request” on Facebook, MySpace, LInkedIn, Twitter, or other social networking sites go to http://www.zurinstitute.com/facebook_clinicalupdate.html.
Thanks to Pat Wicklund of Leading Your Organization of One for the notice.
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Feb 04
Robert Grapes, Chief Technologist of Cloakware, Vienna, Va., posted these tips at Business Week’s, Today’s Tip:
1. Know who has access to privileged information. Assess who has access to what data so you can understand and manage access as appropriate.
2. Apply appropriate policies to protect sensitive information. Create an actionable plan and put it into place, applying privileged passwords and access management controls throughout each level of information.
3. Update security and access credentials regularly to monitor and maintain control. Implement a regimented program to automatically update access management and passwords so you can ensure that the right people have the right amount of control over critical information.
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Jan 21
Ashlee Vance reports in today’s NYTimes that one out of five Web users still decides to leave the digital equivalent of a key under the doormat: they choose a simple, easily guessed password like “abc123,” “iloveyou” or even “password” to protect their data. Read More
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Dec 11
From American Public Media, Future Tense:
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Facebook is about to change. Oh, you’ll still get surprising friend requests from obscure 3rd grade classmates but the site dedicate to public sharing is about to get more private thanks to new privacy settings that will allow you to decide, update by update, who gets to see what you’re doing.
It’s a valuable tool in managing your privacy, at least to a certain degree. At the same time, however, Facebook still has access to all your data and it pays its bills by tailoring advertising to you based on the information you provide. And if you install a third party app to play a game or something, those outside developers have access to your information as well.
Guest: Michael Zimmer, University of Wisconsin
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