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Marketing Trends from the Digital Frontlines

Sat, 04 Sep 2010 01:28:16 -0500

The web and ways to market on the web continue to evolve at warpspeed ' we see some positive and negative changes occurring -our observations du jour: Publishers are finally starting to charge for branded content.It's still difficult to do, but we are seeing many newsletterpublishers charging from - per subscribe per annum. And,most importantly, many people are finally starting to accept theneed to pay for quality content.Contrary to popular opinion the web's epicenter is not SanFrancisco, Tokyo, Washington D.C.northern VA, Seattle, Londonor Austin ' there is no epicenter, its everywhere. We now haveover M estimated according to Nua people using the web andits become a global mediummarketing venueinformation highway. More good news for ecommerce enabled business models, recentpublished reports Boston Consulting Group & eShop indicatecustomer acquisition costs have dropped from . per individualcustomer in Q- of to . in Q- in . A...

The Medium is No Longer the Message

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:01:13 -0500

The Bubble has burst. They honeymoon is over. The end of theinnocence. Pick your clich. Any way you slice it, the InternetEconomy isn't what it used to be. I prefer to look at the progression of the Internet thus farlike a three year Summer of Love. Just like that Summer of 'when the world's attention turned to the small bohemian districtof San Francisco, blind optimism and subsequent overcrowdingeventually caused the bubble to burst. Fast-forward thirty plus years into the present, and we see thathistory has a funny habit of repeating itself. Gone are the daysthat companies with no immediate plans for profitability canboast billion dollar valuations. Gone are the days where it wasOK that your only differentiation was merely being on the web.It seemed like it was OK to pay no mind to having a stablebusiness model, a top-notch management team, or providing actualvalueBut online marketers have suffered the same fate. Just as ourclients are forced to invest in justif...

A Few Paragraphs on How We Could Have Improved Team Management

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 07:49:33 -0500

In the last quarter of , I was working at an apartmentbuilding called Center Park in south Seattle. Center Park wasthe first building of its kind built specifically to accommodatethe needs of people in wheelchairs who could live independentlywith some assistance. I and a lady named Virginia were workingthere as Personal Care Attendants. We worked very closely withtwo disabled men, John Tyler and Ron Schwarz, both now deceased.I consider us to have been a loosely knit team of all fourindividuals. However, we did not perform the tasks that a goodteam should have done to accomplish our goal of best possiblecare of our clients. This is what I think we should have done toimprove our performance:Set more goals, as outlined in 'The Importance of Goals to theSuccess of Work Teams' by Greg Hendrix. We simply played itday-by-day when it came to taking care of our clients. We didtake trips to Hawaii, San Francisco and Canada which were wellplanned and executed, but when it cam...

Better Place

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:15:46 -0500

LaunchThe company was publicly launched, as Project Better Place, by Shai Agassi on October , . As of April it has already raised million and several countries and states have offered tax breaks.In January , Better Place announced a Memorandum of Understanding MOU with Renault-Nissan to build the world's first Electric Recharge Grid Operator ERGO model for clean transportation in Israel. Under the agreement, Better Place will build the electric recharge grid, and Renault-Nissan will provide the electric vehicles. In , Better Place expects to deploy hundreds of charging stations as the company moves toward wide-scale deployment in . Renault has committed to spend million over three years to develop a car with swappable batteries, in time to the deployment. Renault will offer electric models of existing vehicles, like the Mgane sedan, but at competitive prices to similar gasoline models. Cars and batteriesPrototype EVs charging...

Leading from the Inside Out

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:00:04 -0500

One of the most profound and difficult aspects of leadership isinstilling in individuals deeply held, and yet generally sharedprinciples to motivate a common purpose. Leading by influencingone's sense of identity and purpose is both powerful andmysterious. Like the deep blue sea, it is also a source ofenergy and diversity. In this first of twelve articles exploringthe spectrum of leadership influence, I address the question:what exactly is deep blue leadership?The Story Part : The Conundrum When Lynn, the long time leaderof a growing organization, drove into the office parking lot at:am, something didn't seem right. He had arrived home latethe night before after an extended overseas trip. He was stillexperiencing jet lag but the parking lot seemed empty to himwhen compared to six months earlier. He remembered feeling thatthings were going well then, that everyone seemed motivated,excited and happy. They came in early and stayed late. They weregenuinely happy to be b...

Electric vehicle network

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 07:57:16 -0500

AustraliaConstruction of infrastructure has been proposed by Better Place for the major cities Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. Australia will become the third country in the world to have an electric car network in a bid to run the country's million cars on batteries powered by green energy under a plan announced in October .The proposal includes charging spots connected to the energy grid, located in places where cars park - home garages, shopping centres and carparks; "battery switching stations" where drivers swap batteries to get a longer range for long trips.The project will involve Better Place partnered with AGL Energy, Australia largest portfolio of privately-owned renewable generation and Macquarie, prominent infrastructure investment group. AGL will provide the required energy from wind and other sources to power the electric vehicles and will work with Better Place to optimise the network. Macquarie will provide financial advice to help raise AUD ...

POPTART GETTING DOWN 10

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 07:57:16 -0500

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"A Dippy Ditty" ~ Frederick Hodges @ KCRR Concert in KC, MO 2/20/10

Sat, 28 Aug 2010 01:30:37 -0500

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Arley Hall

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 07:00:18 -0500

Hall HistoryIn Piers Warburton moved his principal seat from Warburton to Arley, and built the first house on the site. It consisted of a 'U'-shaped building with the centre of the 'U' facing south. At the north was the great hall, feet m long by feet .m wide. The high table was at the west end and the west wing contained the family apartments. The east wing was the servants' wing and included the buttery, pantry and kitchens. The original Arley Hall was constructed as a timber-framed building, and was surrounded by a square moat. A three-storey south front was added in about , making the house a complete square with a large internal courtyard. In the th century the structure of the house was deteriorating, so in Sir Peter Warburton, th baronet, completely encased the building in new brick walls. These were finished with stucco to make neoclassical faades. The massive old chimneys were removed and replaced with small flues within th...

How Millionaires Get to Be Millionaires

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 07:25:53 -0500

Money is not just a necessity nowadays; it has become asupplement for sustaining wealth and luxury. Anybody ofpractical reason who's being asked will have to say that richesshould provide for the next generations. Having this thought inmind, everyone are craving for millions even teenagers earn andwork out to look forward the future having a house with a largeopen space, elegant faade and wheels in the garage. Yet thereare only few steps, hints of answers revealed by thesemillionaires global wide.Before you can manage a large amount of money learn to handlethe coins in your hand. Lisa Van Duesen, a Vietnamese now a minimogul at US was once sunk in debt and penniless. She sold herhouse and mortgages an amount of ,, paid her debt andmove to settle in the green pasture of US. They sacrifice fromeating lavish foods and satiated in rice and soy sauce as theireveryday meal. She worked hard as a real estate broker aftercollege and invested her money to real estate pr...

San Francisco - Aquarium - Leopard Shark

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 07:37:44 -0500

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San Francisco - Victorian Houses at Russian Hill

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 09:33:21 -0500

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Munchkins Want Advice from Monsters? Not!

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 09:33:18 -0500

I was sipping my morning "wake-cup" of coffee over the SundaySan Francisco Chronicle this weekend when I came across anarticle by staff writer John Batteiger referencing web sitesuseful to small business. Great, I thought, I'd love more ofthose valuable resources. Silly me.Although I think this is an example of a reporter not doing hisresearch and glossing over an important subject, I can't evenbegin to comprehend the absurd references provided by thatreporter! The SBA, the FTC, the Yahoo Small Business Informationsection, which although they each have some small part to playin helping the little guy, don't provide a great resource forsmall business information beyond their own meager references toother web sites.I've faced this oddity for three years now while trying to gainlinks across the web for the WebSite Small Business EcommerceTutorial I provide online. Nobody wants to listen to those of usthat practice what we preach each day and go daily to maintainthe hou...

Using Office Diagnostics from Microsoft to recover from an Outlook crash

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 19:49:51 -0500

Outlook is Microsoft's flagship email management client which is used by individuals or organisations to manage the emails and personal information such as contact details, calender, tasks and is also used for web browsing. Within an organisation, the software is generally used with the Microsoft Exchange Server or Microsoft Sharepoint in order to manage the multiple email accounts that are running within the organisation. Microsoft Outlook can be purchased as a stand-alone software or can be availed by purchasing the Microsoft Office productivity suite. As the program is responsible for managing a bulk of emails, the attachments and the other personal information, the software some times crashes or fails to perform the desired functions. In most of the cases, users are not able to determine the reason behind the Outlook crash. In order to repair outlook and finding the underlying cause for the problems...