Technology

Is Atlanta’s Startup Ecosystem “Mature”?

It's Venture Atlanta week. BIP Capital's annual report is just in time. This year, the report measure's major southeast cities (Atlanta, Research Triangle Park, Charlotte, Nashville) as they compare to the San Francisco Bay Area, Boston, and New York City. I've always referred to Atlanta as a "teenager" in the … Keep reading >>>

Three Tools to Help Parents Control Teens’ iPhone Use

Should You Control Your Teens' iPhone Use? So you got your teenager an iPhone! Nice. You realize, of course, that you just gave 100% complete access to all the world's information & content on a device more powerful than the Apollo 11 to a pubescent young adult whose prefrontal cortex … Keep reading >>>

How do you combine multiple video streams from your event?

The title of this post is a hint at the rest of the story below. Imagine attending or organizing an event (kids athletic event, performance, conference, party, reception, speech, etc.) that is not "professionally" captured on video. However, there are several individuals capturing the event on various video devices from … Keep reading >>>

Problem: Low Marketing Email Engagement Rates

Back in 2014 (seems like just yesterday), Facebook announced that videos that were uploaded natively (as opposed to shared from YouTube) to the social media platform would "autoplay". Viewers would not have to tap or click a video to get it to start playing. The video would begin playing as … Keep reading >>>

Problem: Annual corporate phishing training is worthless

Big corporations have big corporation email security policies. Especially in the financial sector, email phishing is big business for hackers. Why? Because it works! Why does it still work, even though email has been around for a quarter century? Because most big corporations require their non-IT employees to attend a … Keep reading >>>

In Two-Thirds of states, background check laws are being ignored

When you purchase a firearm legally, the firearms dealer performs a background check on you, the buyer of the gun. However, if you buy a gun from a friend, associate, or stranger, there is neither requirement nor means for performing a background check. In other words, if I so choose, … Keep reading >>>

Problem: Your dog ran away! How do you find him?

Has your dog ever escaped and run away like he stole something? There are an estimated 80 million dogs in the US and 4 million are lost each year. In fact, almost 1/3 of dogs get lost at some point in their lifetime. All of us dog lovers have been … Keep reading >>>

How do you make the Amazon Echo Dot into a decent speaker?

You gotta dot? An Amazon Echo Dot? Do you have one? I don't use mine to control stuff or get answers. I use it - or wanted to use it, anyway - as a simple speaker. "Echo, play some upbeat rock 'n' roll," I'd say. Echo (we changed her name … Keep reading >>>

An experiment with Pitch Practice

In 2016, I started "The Pitch Practice Podcast" in order to spread the knowledge of all the lessons we continually learn at the weekly meetup at ATV. That was my first go-round at podcasting, and, while the podcast got some solid early traction, my process for creating the actual content … Keep reading >>>

Hey, Siri, Google, Alexa? Can you run my custom app with my voice?

Siri, Google, and Alexa have given us voice control over thousands of "skills" and devices from our mobile phones and from the various voice input devices that each of these companies provides. But can you "Siri" or "Hey Google" everything on your phone? What about everything on your computer? Not … Keep reading >>>

Kevin Sandlin