In the modern corportate environment, you often find that hackneyed and often meaningless buzzwords like cross platform and low-hanging fruit fill your pained head as you try stifle the urge to run through the office telling everyone where the can shove their action items. It can be a demoralizing experience, so when you get the chance to laugh you’ve got to take it. Here at the Bacharach Blog, we have noticed that a lot of you love our cartoon based posts …

We all want to find new ways to use social media. Tweeting about what you had for lunch or how much you hate/love your local sports team probably won’t get you much new business. Therefore it’s imperative that you listen to the pros as often as possible in order to get things done efficiently through social media. Here is a great article from ZDNet and TechRepublic’s Toni Bowers on the 5 Ways to Use Social Media to Propel Business Forward. …

1.  The Business of Humor: I Can Has Cheezburger.
2. I know it sounds odd but this is a must read and surprisingly funny story about women and street harassment
3. Five Big Bookkeeping Tips
4. iPhone 5 shipping in September
5. TV shopping networks can teach you about making money
6. The Management Feedback Gap
7. Amazon bringing Kindle to 11000 libraries
8. Even with Verizon selling them, AT&T iPhone sales chugging right along
9. Beliefs that are crippling writers
10. Get Better …

No matter how inane or frivolous your last tweet was, someone out there thinks it’s pretty important.  It used to be that when a company wanted to get the pulse of “the man/woman on the street” they went to elaborate, expensive and time intensive lengths to do so.  Well, thanks to the modern miracle of something called Sentiment Analysis, one man’s constant stream of trite, annoying and far too personal blathering is another man’s gold.
Sentiment …

As a leader you want to be liked, or if you can make it happened…loved. If you can get and keep people on your side they tend to spend more time working and less time huddling in cubicles. quietly but passionately complaining about the boss. With this concept/desire in mind, the ever vigilant folks over at Glassdoor.com have just released a employee-generated report card for the CEO’s of the 12 largest tech companies. From Google’s much loved but soon to be ex-CEO Eric …

It’s been a pretty heady and devastating week, but here are ten important and sometimes disturbing social media and leadership stories that deal with the Tragedy in Japan. The beautiful photo to the left was taken on 3.15.11 in Nagoya, Japan by ka_tate.

1. Tips from the Better Business Bureau on Donating to Earthquake relief efforts in Japan
2. Real-Time Japan News Resources
3. Tweeting in Japan: The Good, the Bad, and the Panicked
4. Japan’s Emperor Akihito reassures …