This article was originally posted as part of occasional series “Propaganda for Good” on www.verbalprimate.com.

Over the holidays, maybe one too many doors was held open for me by a smiling stranger. It started me thinking about the stickers on automobiles “Practice Random Acts of Kindness.”

And then I thought…

My mother spent much of her life educating young children and evangelizing for their protection. She was a founder of two schools and a toy lending library for the disabled, a professor, and late in her career trained people who cared for poor mostly loved but sometimes neglected or abused…

Bailey was one of our favorites. Unless he was angry. Then, he was like a crazy dark force. And scary. Compact and wiry he could be a handful. His eyes were piercing or darting or weeping and weak. Ice blue.

You could look a Bailey and conjure up better times…

As our earnest representatives looked worried and walked fast through the halls of congress during the Facebook hearing, I decided to investigate what election laws protecting citizens from false claims because I assumed it would be similar to laws protecting consumers from false advertising. …

Given the political nature of the Cambridge Analytics and Facebook revelations over the past few weeks there is a charged atmosphere. There is also a high profile movement to delete Facebook (#DeleteFacebook.) There is a related debate shaping up between those who feel Facebook betrayed user’s trust and those that…

When will enterprise IT stop being enterprise IT? The answer is maybe not fast enough, or ever.

Act 1: Wizards of Oz

Since I’ve been in the information technology business, technologists caged and protected fragile technology. Technologists, like wizards, harnessed power on behalf of the great unwashed masses in “the business.” Now with the concept of digital transformation and consumerization of IT some business people have realized IT technology should be easy…