I recently commented on some less intelligence social media marketing techniques by brands, picking up on a great post by Sameer Patel, Marketing your Marketing. Basically he was arguing against the rising practice of enticing your visitors to ‘Like’ your Facebook business page by throwing them a discount coupon and commented, “what were they thinking?”. Now Jeremiah Owyang comments on The Peculiar Marketing Trends Among The Social Software Industry. MORE >>

Remote collaboration tools and constant connectivity promise to unleash us from the confines of the cubicle farms where many have spent so many years churning out good work despite often miserable decor. But despite the best laptops available, a host of promising new communication tools and even the rise of the co-working movement , if you’re perfectly honest, you probably have to admit most of us still spend much of our days in what is recognizably a pretty drab office. MORE >>