Opening the Scope of Employee Contribution

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009 Posted in Communications, business | 2 Comments »

Wow.  Two months.  Sorry about that.  Things have been changing and I’ll be launching a new business shortly. One of the major things I’m doing with this new business has to do with the way management recognizes and utilizes talent within ...

Who carries your Web 2.0 banner?

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009 Posted in Business Law, Communications, Information Technology | No Comments »

What's at stake when you let others step in your online footprint? I wrote here about the possibility of something resembling agency through social networking / Web 2.0 / user-created content a short time ago.  I am now in the fortunate ...

Does WOM or Social Network Marketing Create Agency?

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009 Posted in Business Law, Communications, Information Technology | 4 Comments »

We are now near the end of January, and I realize it has been a little while since my last post.  Before leaving LexisNexis, I prepared a proposal, formatted as a white paper, for a position specializing in information management.  ...

Shysters be Gone, part III

Thursday, February 21st, 2008 Posted in Business Law, Legal Explorations | 1 Comment »

In part II, I identified two types of antisocial behaviour which we attempt to prevent, restrain, correct, punish, etc., with law: “those which harm the integrity of society, potentially leading to its collapse; and those which alter the dynamic ...

Shysters be Gone! part II

Monday, February 11th, 2008 Posted in Business Law, Legal Explorations | 1 Comment »

We ended the first post in this series with the question, "Whence comes the ethical imperative, 'Don’t be a Shyster!'?" Now we will get into it: I would like to draw an ephemeral line between moral and ethical laws - just follow ...

Shysters be Gone! part I

Thursday, January 10th, 2008 Posted in Business Law, Legal Explorations | 1 Comment »

Contract law has, at its core, the ethical imperative, "Don't be a Shyster!"We impose a lot of positive duties with law in a complex "evolved" society. These are the things we tell people they are expected to do, in contrast ...