JD Rucker

To paraphrase the immortal movie icon, Ferris Bueller, "The Internet moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss...

I was going through the profiles of some businesses that I follow on social media when I noticed something that was highly discouraging. Some had...

What? WHAT!?!? There have to be required fields on contact forms, right? There have been required fields on contact forms for two decades. Nothing could...

For the most part, people don't need help with their own social media. They are on it enough and see what others are posting. This can then help them to...

Could we be getting "NSA fatigue"? No, I'm not talking about the obvious weariness that we have about the National Security Agency's actions. I'm talking...

Don't worry. Women will still rule on Pinterest for the foreseeable future. That part's not going to change. What will change is that Pinterest is edging...

A recent survey performed by Forrester and a scathing open letter from Nate Elliott to points to one major and undisputed fact: marketers and businesses...

If there's one thing that bugs me more than anything professionally, it's when bad marketing people give good marketing people a bad name by continuing to...

When you want to get some pretty good data on using social media for marketing, one of the best people to turn to is Dan Zarrella, Hubspot's social media...

It's a rant Thursday, I suppose. What has happened in the world that demands that Americans must consider their own government to be an enemy that...

After watching an amazing video that a client had prepared for their business, I asked how she was going to promote it. She said she already had it set to...

With the government shutdown over and the NSA chief on his way out, the time seems ripe for Washington to reintroduce the next wave of internet regulation...

If you do a search on Google for "search marketing" and compare it to a search for "social marketing", you'll see that there are pretty much no...

The hashtag symbol was rarely used in any application other than on a touch tone phone up until it was popularized through social media in the last five...

It's a nut that they've never been able to crack. Facebook has long wanted to be the hub for everything local and that includes check-ins, but they have...

There was a time not too long ago when Facebook was a viable marketing tool for businesses who did not invest into Facebook ads. Over the last year, this...

There are so many ways to publish content on the internet. Images, videos, podcasts, and articles each have tons of choices through which anyone with a...

The majority of American's do not want to be spied upon by the US (or any other) government. That much is clear. What the NSA and other agencies have done...

The internet is a dangerous place. It's a jungle full of miscreants, thieves, and scoundrels. It's natural to want to protect kids from the dangers and...

Every time an act of severe violence occurs and a background story can be found where the perpetrator played violent video games, there are cried by both...

There seems to be a lot of negative sentiment coming from multiple directions. Tech blogs, Wall Street analysts, and conspiracy theorists are clamoring...

According to Google's Chairman of the Board, spying is part of the nature of society. He's right. That much isn't in question. What is of much more...

On one hand, it's refreshing to see tech leaders such as Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg stepping forward to speak out about the despicable practices the US...

There's a reason that companies like Apple and Microsoft have been in slumps over the last year or so. There hasn't been anything to come out that has...