“Sales departments use social to nurture leads and close sales. HR post...” — Ryan Holmes Quote

Sales departments use social to nurture leads and close sales. HR posts job openings and vets applicants. Community and support squads mine networks, blogs and forums with deep listening tools.

The decision to leave a company you founded and move on to a new project is never an easy one.

Not using social media in the workplace, in fact, is starting to make about as much sense as not using the phone or email.

As an entrepreneur, one of the biggest challenges you will face will be building your brand. The ultimate goal is to set your company and your brand apart from the crowd. If you form a strategy without doing the research, your brand will barely float - and at the speed industries move at today, brands sink fast.

Science blogs bore me. When everyone is an expert, no one is an expert.

I don't have any thoughts on blogs, because I don't read them. I don't read them not out of any principle, but because there are only 24 hours in a day, and I like to read books.

I was writing blogs before work, then I was writing at work, and then I started writing books on the weekend because you just have that sort of energy in your 20s; it's wonderful.

Much of the lifeblood of blogs is search engines - more than half the traffic for most blogs.

While I love the medium, I've always been skeptical about the value of blogs as businesses.