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Creating a Buzz At Your Next Tech Conference

by gavin // April 6, 2019 // No Comments

If you are planning on going to a tech conference to showcase your business, you’re going to be competing with a lot of motivated people for the same attention in your target audience’s minds. Because of this, you need to... Continue reading →

What’s unique about Appco’s approach to face-to-face sales?

by gavin // February 17, 2017 // No Comments

Face-to-face sales is a tried and tested form of marketing and a wide range of businesses around the world use this technique to reach out to prospective customers. Broadly speaking, this form of promotion simply refers to interacting with consumers... Continue reading →

5 Things Darryl Katz Did to Become a Successful Businessman

by gavin // November 16, 2016 // No Comments

How did Daryl Katz become one of the wealthiest men in Canada? He wasn’t born into wealth. The self-made billionaire’s father was a pharmacist who, by all reports, was more interested in being of service to his neighbors than in making... Continue reading →

Donate $33 to LIVESTRONG and Get ‘Delivering Happiness’ Free

by Bruce Keener // June 9, 2015 // No Comments

Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos, and author of the book Delivering Happiness, has worked out a deal with Lance Armstrong’s LIVESTRONG grass roots cancer organization so that you get Tony’s new book with a $33 donation to LIVESTRONG. How can... Continue reading →

Save Money on Tech e-books via Twitter and Facebook

by Bruce Keener // May 3, 2015 // No Comments

Twitter and Facebook may cause us to waste a lot of time, but they can be useful, too. I’ve even saved some money using Twitter (probably wasted some, too, but let’s not get into that). For example, by following OReillyMedia,... Continue reading →

Forbes and Atwood on Password Security [re: the Gawker Incident]

by Bruce Keener // April 23, 2015 // No Comments

The recent hack of Gawker Media sites has compromised over a million passwords. Although I had not commented on Lifehacker in a long time, my password and email (from the one or two times when I did comment) were among... Continue reading →

How Much of Your Data do You Really Want in The Cloud?

by Bruce Keener // April 7, 2015 // No Comments

With WikiLeaks and The Gawker Incident so fresh in our minds, many of us are wondering just how secure supposedly secure data really is. (If you are not up-to-speed on what happened with Gawker, see my previous post and its... Continue reading →

Recent Google and Verizon “Net Neutrality” Links [Aug 10, 2010]

by Bruce Keener // August 11, 2010 // No Comments

Yesterday’s Google-Verizon joint statement on an “open internet” has generated a plethora of related news stories, as indicated by this snapshot of yesterday’s Techmeme links for the topic: Few, if any, of these stories suggest that the joint statement portends... Continue reading →

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Welcome to Keener Living. My name is Bruce Keener. I established this blog in March 2010, a few months after retiring at the age of 57. My reason for having this blog is to share what I’ve learned over the years (and what I continue to learn). I also enjoy hearing and learning from you.