Nor is your time and attention In an earlier blog we talked about how business models inevitably dictate the behavior of any social platform. The business models of most of today’s leading platforms force them to maximize the amount of targeted advertising and user data sold to the highest bidder. Of course, these companies are…

Revenue sources wield a powerful influence over the decisions of any well-run business. Sometimes strategic objectives may temper or even ignore that power for a short time, e.g., to pursue a diversification or attempt a paradigm shift, but over the long term a company that does not satisfy the needs of paying customers will fail.…

Self-isolation and lockdowns have fueled a surge in remote work, overcoming earlier corporate resistance to allowing, let alone encouraging, working from home. The remote work culture, commonplace for freelancers and other gig economy participants, has proven novel for displaced office workers. The presence of barking dogs, toddlers, spouses and other ambient noise generators adds character…

It has been a bad couple of years for Facebook and it isn’t getting easier. This week, we look at social networks that do not have advertising and don’t sell your information to anyone. In fact, they don’t even collect it. Both ways that all social media platforms have traditionally made their money. We talk…