By Kristin Piombino

JUNE 14, 2013 - It's the million-dollar question for social media managers everywhere: What is the best time to post to social media?

While the optimal time to update your Facebook page or Pinterest boards may vary depending on your audience, Social Caffeine created an infographic that lists, in general, the best and worst times to post to the major social networks.

There is only the dance 

until the swan dies.

                       ~  Bauke Kamstra

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This blog began with this poem and this exchange - http://bit.ly/10BlxQv - between Bauke - @Wyrde - and me.  Then my new Twitter friend from Australia, @TP_Hogan, chimed in - http://bit.ly/10BEW3P - and triggered  thoughts on Black Swans leading me to dust off and burnish some musings from my archives. 

Today there is a great deal of talk about the need for more employee collaboration. This is because collaboration can lead to creative solutions and is directly tied to innovation.

Though we often attribute innovative ideas to a single person, rarely do these ideas occur in isolation. Finding novel solutions to problems or creating new market opportunities requires people sharing and discovering through direct and open interaction with others.

There are many times in the last year that I've looked at a problem and told myself - if anyone can do it, it is us (Google).  It certainly feels good working for a company that you can say that about.  I don't write too often about my employer - my blog is mostly about my personal thoughts on technology, with occasional other topics. 

Innovation is all about creating new ideas and selling them.  To successfully innovate in an organisational setting a number things need to happen:

• Individuals need to enlarge their toolsets to think differently;
• Groups must have a culture that supports risk, to ensure new ideas are not 'killed' at inception;
• Organisations must structure themselves so that innovation is part of its strategic focus;

It was a gathering of like minds. Not of the intelligence variety, but rather ones that have the same nagging voice; telling each of us to move off the couch on a Monday night and get our butts down to the weekly fitness class. This is not the sort of high energy tough motivational class someone would think to record on a DVD.  

Humans have relied on pure submission to the financial claws of the banking sector when they have wanted to fuel projects envisioned to change, modify or even better, disrupt, the global normal. Not anymore. Hello Crowdfunding!

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In our latest webinar, we demonstrated how to conduct ad testing, and specifically how you can do ad testing on tablets and smartphones. Learn the traditional ways of testing ads and get introduced new ways to test ads on your mobile devices.  Advertising today is more innovative and risk taking than ever before. It is important to collect data and make sure that you are sending the right message to the right demographic in advertising.

I read something a few minutes ago that said something to the effect that when we begin using a new curriculum, teachers want to get to the point where they have institutionalized the process, so that it becomes a routine. My question is, do we really want to get to the point where our curriculum becomes institutionalized? Doesn't that admit that we want to routinize the what and how of our courses so that nothing unexpected happens?

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When we are working with a customer to design a new porous material, the first two criteria we often look at are (1) the efficiency (how much of the particulate are we going to capture, usually expressed as a % ) and (2) the resistance caused by the material as the filtrate flows through the filter.  (2) is often expressed as pressure drop, air perm or flux, but it is really an expression of the energy, or cost, of filtering the material.