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Mobile Becomes A Social Media Lifeline

Beautiful Sunday morning here in Toronto (Mississauga to be precise). As I catch up on reading and wait for the family to wake up before we head to church I thought I would share this post from Harvard Business. David Armano writes a Conversation Starter on the Six Social Media Trends for 2010… and these [...]

November 8, 2009 Read the full article →

The Right Device for the Developing World

A while back we wrote a post entitled Mobile Technology, Poverty and Development which was fairly well received.  Although this topic may be considered slightly off-topic to some of you it is still a very hot topic out there.   If you are interested Quocirca has a small write-up on entitled – The right device for [...]

September 15, 2009 Read the full article →

MyBlackBerry.com Launch

Last week’s big news for some was the leaked information about the new BlackBerry site (social networking huh?) called MyBlackBerry (at myblackberry.com). When a friend emailed the news to me I was actually somewhat surprised by it.  After reading the piece at Berry Review all I could do was scratch my head and wonder how [...]

July 22, 2009 Read the full article →

Mobile Technology, Poverty and Development

Slightly off topic… but as I was catching up on some of my Google Reader reading I came across this post by Hannes over at the Mobile Banking Blog on Defeating Poverty.  Over the last year I have come across this topic perhaps hundreds of times.  Those of you who follow the mobile space beyond [...]

March 20, 2009 Read the full article →

Twitter’s Mobile Strategy

Reading about Twitter’s new hire Kevin Thau (new Director of Mobile Business Development) reminds me that we still owe you several series previously mentioned here which you have not seen.  They are on their way (but  currently stuck as WIP somewhere between our brains and our keyboards).  Why am I bringing this up?  Well, one [...]

January 16, 2009 Read the full article →

Mobile Social Networks

I read and follow L’Atelier US frequently and was going to feature them in our Like Minded Blogs series… before I do that (and to keep you busy) here is a little tidbit from their site: Mobile Social Networks Becoming More Popular Mobile social networking has grown 187 percent in 2007. While we’re still in [...]

January 8, 2009 Read the full article →

Social Media and Enterprise Mobility … continued

We wanted to draw your attention to this post by Hutch Carpenter about IBM and Intel releasing social media guidelines for their employees.   This adds to our discussion from last week on Enterprise Mobility and Social Networks… unfortunately our requests for feedback from folks in the industry seemed to have gone unnoticed (although we did [...]

December 16, 2008 Read the full article →

Enterprise Mobility, Social Networks and the End of Email

With this post we hope to launch a discussion here at the Mobile Strategy Blog on a topic we keep bumping up against directly or indirectly: social networking and enterprise mobility. We don’t completely agree with the idea that social networks (and the technologies/applications that make it possible) will soon invade and take over the [...]

December 10, 2008 Read the full article →