I’ve been using Twitter for the past decade and have seen how the platform has gone a long way. More than a year ago, Twitter launched Promote Mode that allows advertisers to promote tweets and market their products or services at $99 a month. In this episode, I share with you my experience with this tool and how it may or may not be a worthy investment for you or your organization. Are you using Twitter Promote Mode? I’d love to hear your thoughts about it.

In the last two years I’ve transitioned to a new healthcare plan and started paying more attention to it for myself and for my family. With the help of technology, doctor’s appointments, purchase of medicines, and consultations have become more convenient and affordable than ever. Whatever industry we are in, there is a lot to learn from companies that continue to innovate in their own spaces. In this episode, I share with you the top 3 healthcare companies I consider to be most innovative. I’d definitely love to hear your thoughts about them too.

With our lives always connected to smartphones, Facebook has taken advantage of it by adding apps to its family every now and then. In this vlog, I share with you Facebook’s newest app, ‘Lasso’. If you haven’t heard of it, watch my vlog as I show you around this new social network, especially for the younger users.

New things are happening on LinkedIn, and in rolling out its latest features, it has become more than just a platform for resumes and job hunting. In the latest episode of my vlog, I share with you the 3 LinkedIn innovations and the unique opportunities these offer.

You may have watched my Oculus Go product review and the top apps a month into its launch. In this episode of the vlog, my 8-year-old daughter, Emery shares her top 5 Oculus Go Apps that your kids will definitely love too!

Apple has undeniably made life easy and convenient for me in the last 10 years yet I’m slowly finding myself moving away from the Apple ecosystem and exploring other options. In the latest episode of my vlog, I’m sharing my reasons and would love to know if you have or are considering this transition as well.

Cryptocurrency is becoming more widely accepted sooner than expected, thanks in part to Facebook’s launch of its own cryptocurrency, Libra. For quite some time I’ve been studying about cryptocurrency and believe it can be a big help to nonprofit organizations and churches. In this episode of the vlog, I’m sharing with you why we should be paying attention to Libra and its development, how different it is with other cryptocurrencies, and more.

I’d also love for you to check out the book I co-wrote with Nick Runyon, ‘Crypto for Good’: https://www.amazon.com/Crypto-Good-Demystifying-Cryptocurrencies-Nonprofits-ebook/dp/B07P8BCVVY.

I think Facebook just created the Facebook of Cryptocurrency. Yes, that would make Bitcoin the Myspace of the crypto world.

Let me explain.

If you haven’t heard, Facebook announced that they will be joining with 100 different partners including companies like Mastercard, Uber and PayPal. I think the best summary from Libra’s whitepaper that explains the currency is in these 3 core points:

1. It is built on a secure, scalable, and reliable blockchain;

2. It is backed by a reserve of assets designed to give it intrinsic value;

3. It is governed by the independent Libra Association tasked with evolving the ecosystem.

Let me quickly explain each point:
1. Libra is built on the same powerful technology that Bitcoin was built on: blockchain. While many have challenged the merits of cryptocurrency, few question the power, security and scale of blockchain technology.

2. The Libra Association will hold a collective of fiat currencies as reserve that will give the “stable...

I started paying attention to cryptocurrency about 2 years ago when a friend of mine told me that she invested just a few hundred dollars and that investment turned into 6 figures of value and later 7. Before I began to invest, I wanted to understand what it is and how it works and why in the world something could escalate in value so fast.

I still remember sitting at Starbucks about 18 months ago with my boss, Rick Dunham, where I shared with him my fascination with cryptocurrency and the 2 of us trying to wrap our minds around what it is and the implications that can follow? Unfortunately, we didn’t figure it all out in that hour at Starbucks, but it was the beginning of a journey.

These conversations took me down a path of questions that included:

• What is money?

• Why is money worth anything?

• Why do banks exist?

• Can money be worth something one day and nothing the next?

• Do we need a new kind of money?

• What is blockchain?

• Is it really possible to build a...

Have you heard of Tik Tok? You may have heard about it from friends or likely you have seen an ad on Facebook and YouTube. Tik Tok is trending up right now and many people, including celebrities, are jumping into the bandwagon. The creativity of users on Tik Tok is fun to see, but can it be the next big thing on social media? I answer this question on this episode of the vlog.