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Chinese Media Google Will Leave China on April 10 (19 March 08:57) |
| Following the well-publicized fracas over censorship, attacks on human rights, full-scale hacking, and accusations of governmental involvement in attempts to steal data from Google's servers... |
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Chinese Media Google Will Leave China on April 10th (19 March 10:13) |
| Following the well-publicized fracas over censorship, attacks on human rights, full-scale hacking, and accusations of governmental involvement in attempts to steal data from Google's servers... |
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Universal Music Group Slashes CD Prices to Between $6 and $10 (19 March 06:20) |
| Universal Music Group, one of the "Big Four" major labels, is the first to react to the years-long decline in CD sales. CD sales are down 15.4% this year, a slightly slower decline than the ... |
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WorkLife How to Avoid Falling Behind on the Road (18 March 10:04) |
| Staying productive on prolonged business travel trips is difficult. Not only does a great deal of your work/life get eaten up in meetings, presentations, events, and transit, but your access... |
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Facebook Co-Founder Chris Hughes Is Back in the Startup Business With Jumocom (18 March 09:26) |
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Chris Hughes, the Facebook co-founder, and the engine behind the MyBarackObama community organization site, is back in the start-up business.
His new enterprise is called Jumo, (jumo.com) ... |
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Three Ways To Sustain Your Innovation (18 March 06:37) |
| In my research following the paths of successful innovations, I repeatedly see that the strategy that gets you there is not the strategy that keeps you there. It was Wal-Mart's focus on rura... |
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Customer Co-Production (18 March 02:23) |
| Who better than your customers to get involved in your brand and to tell you the best way to sell your product? Just ask them.When we began the very first research for The Social Media Bible... |
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BusinessLarge - In Defense Of The Postal Service (18 March 12:21) |
| The Postal Service - A stamp of approval (Yes, THAT Postal Service...)Please - Enough of the negative pile-ons. Last week, the U.S. Postal Service announced that – gasp – it is deeply in... |
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Getting Started With Online Marketing – Web Analytics – Part II (17 March 11:17) |
| Back to web analytics…I am picking up where I left off two
weeks ago. First, a quick reminder about
the five steps of performing web analytics – which are as follows:
Define
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Making Strategy Simple (17 March 09:47) |
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How do you talk about your business's strategy so that your employees
get it? Well, you've probably heard the phrase "Keep it simple, stupid."
And often the subtext of that is: "Keep it sim... |
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BRAND OR DIE The Downfall of the Institution and the Rise of the Personal Brand (17 March 08:53) |
| I (Nick) was sitting in a sushi bar in Los Angeles, thousands of miles away from my hometown of Orlando, FL. Having found a table, I asked the waiter to assemble my usual selections which i... |
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Why Every CEO Should Regret Not Attending the Psychologically Healthy Workplaces Conference (17 March 08:42) |
| I recently attended and spoke at the APA’s Psychologically Healthy Workplace Conference. The goal of the conference as outlined by the APA’s visionary Assistant Executive Director,... |
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How to Buck the System the Right Way (17 March 04:43) |
| One reason that General Motors might be on the right track to becoming a viable business once again may be the result of something its former CEO, Fritz Henderson, did before he was sacked. ... |
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The true benefits of outsourcing (17 March 02:33) |
| Despite its growing popularity, outsourcing has gotten a bad rap over the past few years. While there may be good reasons for it in certain circles, it doesn’t mean that such strategies ar... |
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Four Ways to Inject New Ideas Into Your Company (17 March 02:29) |
| Like many people, I have my own way of doing things that, for a variety of reasons, have proven to work for me. This ranges from how I manage people and conduct new business initiatives to s... |
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SXSWi Drowning in the Sea of Change (16 March 08:46) |
| SXSW is a celebration of innovation: in film, music, and interactive technologies. This is the third time I’ve gone to SXSWi, and every year I am happier I spent the time and tre... |
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Work Smart How to Make Procrastination Productive (16 March 05:13) |
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You've got a big, important report to write for work and you're dreading it. The deadline has been weighing on your mind for weeks and so far, you've done nothing about it. At this point, y... |
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Zappos Marketing Chief Customer Service is the New Marketing! (16 March 02:09) |
| In this Brand Innovator Spotlight, Aaron Magness shares what brought him to Zappos, his five principles of marketing and how your company can improve its customer service right now.Aaron Mag... |
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Bhagwan Chowdhrys FAB Campaign Aims to Put $100 in Bank Account for Every Baby (16 March 01:43) |
| Bhagwan Chowdhry, a Professor of Finance at UCLA's Anderson School, outlines his organization's mission to give every newborn in the world access to financial legitimacy. The most stunning p... |
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Provide Incentive to Spend-wary Consumers (16 March 01:01) |
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We’re almost to the quarter-mark of 2010 (hard to
believe, I know) and rightfully so, people are still a little antsy about how
well we’re recovering from the recession. S... |
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Why you need an a la carte approach in an a la carte world (16 March 12:16) |
| Imagine… - Your company offers disk and tape storage sub-systems that attach to every type of computer ever offered by a longstanding, major computer manufacturer—a very large number of... |
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Retail Growth Lessons for B2B Companies (15 March 11:04) |
| Yesterday, my husband and I attended the Grand Opening of Kohl's Department Store in Bend, Oregon. You would have never guessed that our community is experiencing a 14% unemployme... |
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Biomimicry Design The Answer May Be Zebra (15 March 09:46) |
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Our last blog was about the change makers co-working space housed at the BrowerCenter.org called The-Hub.net. Per its mission, it is here I met Cameron Matthews. Cameron is current... |
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Why You Should Start a Company in Philadelphia (15 March 08:10) |
| It used to be, if you were serious about starting a tech company, you went to Silicon Valley. But emerging entrepreneurial hubs around the country are giving startup aspirants options. In th... |
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Netflix Ditches Beat-Our-Recommendation-System Contest Due to Privacy Questions (15 March 01:22) |
| Netflix's grassroots competition to best its recommendation algorithm was a bit popularity booster for the company--but thanks to concerns over privacy (backed up by one troubling example), ... |
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3 Reasons Business Cards are Dangerous (15 March 07:20) |
| Traditional business cards and CDs-as-business-cards are dangerous because:1. They assume old-style communication: I have a message for you.This is a transactional view of communication. If ... |
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Say What You Mean and (15 March 05:24) |
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This week's blog was inspired from a post on
w2wlink.com
by
Margie Warrell. I always loved Dr. Seuss, and I always understood that he knew what he was talking about when... |
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Only 10 Tickets Left to Innovation Uncensored! (13 March 03:02) |
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No joke: this is your last chance to get a ticket to attend Fast Company's Innovation Uncensored conference on April 21.Who will be there? Along with the editors and writers from this magaz... |
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Valuable Soul Searching in Times of Economic Crisis (12 March 10:34) |
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You don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to uncover clues that our country, as well as many other nations around the world, are going through difficult economic times. The unfolding po... |
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Twitter On Oscar Night From Boring To Building Relationships (12 March 05:44) |
| As a celebrity media trainer, I have to watch the Academy Awards. Sometimes my clients are winners and have to deliver acceptance speeches or speak to the press about how they feel about not... |
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An Ad Network Story (12 March 07:30) |
| When I started Consorte Media I talked a lot about how Hispanic marketing relied on anecdotal evidence as opposed to actual data. Now I have a different story to tell.I started Consorte Medi... |
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Enough With the Corporate Deforestation Already! (12 March 02:56) |
| A day doesn't go by without another company announcing a major layoff. I don't know about you, but I'm tired of hearing about the destruction that has taken place, which has changed the land... |
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The Rise of the Inattention Economy (11 March 08:22) |
| Have you ever paid for a subscription service and forgotten to cancel it? Have you ever purchased a product with a rebate but forgot to file it because the rebate form was buried under ... |
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View the world through your competitors eyes (11 March 06:25) |
| Be a fish, let them be birdsI
think I’ve mentioned this Zen Koan before, but it’s worth reminding
ourselves of it: the bird and the fish both pursue the same goal in
winter – to stay w... |
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Its Banks vs Families Who Will Come Out On Top QA with Elizabeth Warren (11 March 05:27) |
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Elizabeth Warren is Main Street’s woman in Washington. A professor at Harvard
Law School, she’s researched the travails of the consumer credit market and
the hidden
bankruptcy epide... |
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METHOD More of an Organism Than an Organization (11 March 10:06) |
| So I think we can all admit by now that “green washing” is a thing of the past and most consumers are savvy enough to determine which companies are really walking the talk and whic... |
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Social Media Marketing Are You Spread Too Thin (11 March 03:54) |
| Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. Blogging. Podcasting. Google Buzz. Flickr. YouTube. Bebo. Tumblr. Jaiku. Plaxo. Hi5. MySpace. Orkut. Photobucket. Audioboo. Ning. The list goes on and on.
There... |
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How to Write a Mission Statement That Doesnt Suck [video] (11 March 12:41) |
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I want to show you why most mission statements are so terrible.
Let's say you founded a pizza parlor. And your first idea for a mission
statement is something like this: "Our mission is to ... |
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WorkLife The Conversation (10 March 09:09) |
| Who said no one is listening?Other than Kelsey Grammar's character Frasier famously in the comedy of the same name, that is?I'll admit I've said it. But, with a tip of the hat to the fiction... |
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Getting to Know Your New Organization (10 March 08:56) |
| When The First 90 Days was first published in 2003, author and Harvard professor Michael Watkins said that “learning about the culture and politics of a new organization” was the most di... |
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10 Tips for Safe and Effective Social Networking (10 March 08:55) |
| A brief respite from the web analytics thread….
In the last few days I have seen an alarming number of
incidents related to carefree social networking that led to embarrassing
consequence... |
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Social Change 20 A Blueprint for Reinventing Our World (10 March 08:55) |
| Social Change 2.0: A Blueprint for Reinventing Our World
is a handbook every visionary must read. Jam-packed with effective
reality-tested tools and true-life stories, this new tome by David... |
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Former Sun Microsystems CEO HTC Isnt the First Company to Face Legal Threats From Steve Jobs (10 March 02:49) |
| Jonathan Schwartz, former CEO of Sun Microsystems, has stepped up to defend Google (in a roundabout way, via HTC) from the patent attacks recently levelled by Apple. If you want to be truly ... |
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Social Media Marketing Are You Spread to Thin (10 March 07:48) |
| Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. Blogging. Podcasting. Google Buzz. Flickr. YouTube. Bebo. Tumblr. Jaiku. Plaxo. Hi5. MySpace. Orkut. Photobucket. Audioboo. Ning. The list goes on and on.
There... |
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Jimmy Kimmels Lessons on Leadership Succession (09 March 11:14) |
| For a funny take on the subject of board leadership succession, check out this clip from Jimmy Kimmel. |
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37Signals 13 Simple Rules for Success in Business (09 March 09:54) |
| "Rework," the new book by the founders of 37Signals, is rethinking the traditional business plan. Here are some key points to turn your idea into a successful business. |
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The Time Is Ripe for Innovation Outsourcing Without Borders (09 March 09:00) |
| Having the right approach to globalization will define successful leadership in 2010. While financial institutions toppled in 2009, new industries were born. While industry incumbents strugg... |
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The Future of Work Is Shared (09 March 05:24) |
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I am an entrepreneur, a consultant in trend strategy with a
virtual office. For 15 years I worked fulltime in offices and corporations as a
designer, I am familiar with the cube... |
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Work Smart Avoid Office Distractions With Time Blocking (09 March 04:43) |
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The most important decision you'll make today is about what to pay attention to and what to ignore.
[twistage f975f499540cb]
In an interruption-driven culture, it's too easy to let every... |
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Why Real Estate Investors Should Invest in Startup Companies (09 March 01:48) |
| Real estate investors should invest in startup tech companies.Typically, early stage angels and real estate investors never mix, because the real estate guys feel like they can’t measure t... |
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