I just finished the latest book from Richard Florida author of Rise of the Creative Class (a perspective which I find very interesting). His new book is titled The Great Reset. In it he describes our current situation in the U.S. as less of a great crisis and more of a Great Reset, or opportunity for sweeping changes in the way we work, live, spend, save and the geography of where we do these things.

Microsoft launched the newest beta version of its web browser on Wednesday, Internet Explorer 9, this week and it is getting some great reviews. You may ask why this is important… Well, two reasons. Most computer users spend 60 to 80 percent of their time in a browser and computing is moving quickly to the cloud. Whoever has the best browser can pick up or keep current users and compete with the others that are in this space.

You may be seeing more funny looking squares with little black boxes inside lately. These are not ads for black and white quilting classes. They’re QR Codes

Your guide to using photo sharing, video, podcasts, mobile marketing, and other types of
multimedia to broaden your company's reach and introduce new marketing techniques.

The amount of talent, of creativity, of innovations out there remains staggering.  Invent, improve, copy... or perish.

Sometimes being creative is a challenge. Much of creativity is about problem solving. You identify a situation, a tool or a process that could be done differently, and you let the creative process take you forward from there. But sometimes your usual process for getting the big idea just isn’t working. That’s when it’s time to try something different.

I found a great advice in the latest issue of Inc. This article gives some great tips on using Google's free tools to help optimize your site for search engines.