(This is a guest post by Lauren Orsini. Thanks Lauren!)
If you read Steven’s interview with me, you know that my blog was an important part of landing a new job. I always knew that blogging was a great way to record and share my passions, but I didn’t realize that it could also get me work.
I started my short-lived NaNoJobMo (a riff on NaNoWriMo) blog on November 1. The basis of NaNoWriMo is that anyone can be a novelist in a month as long as they plug away at it every day for 30 days. I thought I could apply the same logic to my job hunt. I would apply to a new job every day for 30 days, and I would do it publicly so the world could hold me accountable to my vow.
Technology
Screen Size People, Screen Size!
What mobile devices and semi-mobile devices will succeed? What ones will fail? Which of the exotically-named consumer electronics clamoring for our dollars and time appeal to us – and to others? What devices will succeed that we want our books, games, etc. on?
We look at these devices and want to know this. We want to get our best value. We want to make sure we get the media we create on the more profitable device. But what will succeed, what will fail?
Well there are many reasons and factors, but I really think people are missing the kind of obvious factor in what makes success in SmartTabletPhoneBooKNet market.
The screen.
Business: The Three Areas of Change
As I see it there are 3 major areas of change in how businesses function in our economy. These areas of change are going to vastly, vastly affect the kind of world we live and work in. These transformations will also affect any businesses we found and jobs we have (or don't have). I want to take a chance to identify these areas of change, how they interact, and what it means for us in two essays.