Mar 27 And so it begins . . .

Enter “Smoke Signals” into Google and you will get 1.5 million results.  “Printing Press” garners 12 million and “Telephone” will get you 87 million.  

But things sure have changed in the last ten years.  Now, enter “social media” into Google and you will see about 187 million results.  Impressive results for a term describing something that started only about ten years ago.  Consider, Twitter just turned five this month; YouTube is only seven years old; Facebook will be eight in February; and Friendster (2002) and MySpace (2003) are the senior citizens of the genre, but not yet 10 years old.  In these short ten years “social media” has entered into the fabric of our lives, changed how we communicate and how we get our news.

With this inaugural blog posting Prentice enters this conversation.  At the same time we are opening a Prentice channel on YouTube, announcing our Twitter feed, and invite you to check out our Facebook page. 

We probably cannot promise anything as momentous as regime change or expect to have as many followers as Lady Gaga (Over 9 million on Twitter).  What we will try to do, however, is provide you with a mix of thoughtful pieces on the workplace, interesting updates on office products & trends, and offer up a few off-beat pieces that catch our attention.

And we hope to earn a greater audience that the gentleman with the snappy hat in the photo.  We’ll see. 

It should be fun, we hope it will be entertaining, and we invite you to let us know what you think.