Jon DiPietro is Domesticating IT

Reading Is Expensive

Reading is very slow, expensive, and inefficient. The ROI for this activity is very different depending upon whether a person is reading for effect or purpose.

High Five for Week Ending 7-Feb

This week’s High Five is about crowd power; for better or worse. #5: Microsoft’s Creative Destruction Categorizing this article as “crowd power” is a little bit of a stretch, but it had to be included in the High Five nonetheless.  In the wake of the iPad product announcement, this fascinating article describes in great detail how the [...]

Presentation: Zen and Now

I used to think I was pretty good at presentations but, in fact, I was guilty of "Really Bad PowerPoint. Then I read Presentation Zen and everything changed.

Social Media Strategies Laid BARE

BARE stands for "Be Authentic, Relentless, and Everywhere" and is the equivalent of the Commander's Intent that accompanies military orders. Detailed strategies for implementing social media are good, but what do you do when the unexpected happens?

The 21st Century Land Grab

By now, many people are familiar with Cybersquatting – a process whereby a person registers a domain name in bad faith with the intent of reselling it later for a profit. Recent legislation has made it easier for trademark holders and famous persons to obtain their domains from squatters, but the process is by no [...]