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Since 2010, page views via mobile devices have risen by 980 percent. With that, the number of surveys that are taken on smartphones or tablets is increasing — but are you making it possible for people to complete surveys on their mobile device?

A fellow Digital Asset Management (DAM) professional asked me whether I believe part of our job was to minimize liability within an organization. I answered yes. In fact, there are plenty of reasons why this is true and why organizations use this (in part) as another justification to acquire, implement and use Digital Asset Management properly.

The term "Lean Portal" was first coined by Gartner in 2011. Since then it has quickly entered the vernacular of vendors everywhere but are they just talking the talk or can they really deliver — and how can you tell the difference?

Perhaps the most welcome business innovation in the 21st century is the realization that the 1990’s CEO pablum, “People are our greatest asset” is actually true. 

In the Avengers, when Steve Rogers said to Tony Stark: "Big man in a suit of armour. Take that off, what are you?" Tony Stark replied: "Genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist." After seeing back to back keynotes from Leap Motion and Elon Musk, I feel like I was 20 yards away from the armored avenger himself (minus the alcoholism and the raging ego).

Uncertainty is inherent in any plan. But there are actions that can be taken to increase the likelihood of positive outcomes and to reduce risk.

If you’re in the world of search engine optimization (SEO), or you’re looking to enter the world of SEO, this blog will showcase a few methods to track your SEO work with Google Analytics.

"Imitation as Innovation: Lessons from the Shanzhai" was the most intellectually challenging topic from my first day at SXSW. This talk from Lyn Jeffery, Research Director at Institute for the Future and Kris Gale, VP of Engineering at Yammer had so many paradoxes fly about the room, it took a good minute after the presentation was completed before the audience could absorb the messages deeply enough to ask any questions.

What are the biggest challenges facing your company today? Are they the financial collapse, global recession, reshaping the existing business model and strategic priorities, or changing technology paradigms covering mobile, social and cloud? Or is it something much more fundamental than any of those?

I was very nervous when I made my plans for attending the south-by-south-west conference. I was scared that the conference was getting too big. Would the conference be dominated by the poseurs and wannabes? Would the startup crowd with dreams of grandeur make every presentation a feebly costumed marketing pitch? This fear was dispelled in my first session. 

Customers today have less and less attention to give. On the Web, they’re doing research, trying to complete tasks. They don’t like being disrupted.

There appears to be as many ways to tackle employee engagement as there are organizations, but I think there is one point that we can agree on: without acknowledging the humans at the center, it doesn't really matter.

e-Discovery is normally thought of as a legal process related to the identification, gathering, analysis and transfer of data (e.g., documents and email) for lawsuits and other legal matters but though that is true, e-Discovery is at its core, a risk management issue.

When there's a disconnect between actions and words, how can we expect our organizations to change?

Despite the hype around the social intranet, mobile access and enterprise collaboration, according to the latest data from the Worldwide Intranet Challenge (WIC), intranets aren't any more collaborative, interactive or mobile than they were three or four years ago.

Sometime soon, if not already, there's a very good chance that you're going to be thinking about putting SharePoint 2013 into your organization. In what is the fifth major iteration of Microsoft's ubiquitous collaboration platform, there are a ton of juicy features in SharePoint 2013 that you and your business users are going to want to get your hands on.

When you are looking for advice on purchasing digital asset management systems, there is a lot of information about essential features and more technical elements, but information on how to manage the purchasing process is often harder to find.

Slam bam thank you ma’am.  

Sounds kind of vulgar doesn’t it? It’s certainly no way to treat someone that we’d want to have a meaningful, fruitful relationship with.

Moving part or all of your business to the cloud is a challenge (to put it mildly). But there are some steps you can take to ease this transition.

This month we explore the connection between employee engagement and gamification. It's a partnership that many companies have been wrestling with for a few years now. The idea that incorporating simple, but meaningful "games" into workflows can somehow enhance an employee's productivity, while providing some healthy competition isn't so far-fetched. But like anything designed to disrupt the traditional nature of work, the success of gamifying the workplace comes down to people and process.