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Tweet A few thoughts on the health care debate currently going on in the USA. Public option – yes. Yes, we should make health care available to everyone. It is not a right, but a non-third-world country shouldn’t have people dying for lack of basic preventative medicine. Tax the people who use it. Like any [...]
Tweet New Media Communications Model from PR 2.0. An evolved version of Lasswell’s model per the book: Who Says what In which channel To whom To what effect Then who Hears what Who shares what With what intent To what effect Explained in greater detail in PR 2.0, Solis, Breakenridge. pg 190. This is mostly [...]
Tweet The Personal Brand Era Cometh In August of 2007 Tom Peters wrote in an article titled The Brand Called You in FastCompany magazine: It’s time for me — and you — to take a lesson from the big brands, a lesson that’s true for anyone who’s interested in what it takes to stand out [...]
Tweet “Although I am recognized with this tremendous honor of being in the basketball hall of fame, I don’t look at this moment as a defining end to my relationship with the game of basketball. It is simply a continuation of something I started a long time ago. One day you might look up and [...]
Tweet From 2006.
Tweet The “Sandwich Method” of feedback was the first method of constructive criticism I learned as a young manager right out of university. You know it – 1) say something positive then 2) give the constructive criticism and then 3) close with a positive statement. Example: Mary, you are doing a great job on the [...]
Tweet The company is 12 years old today. Wow. What a journey so far! A huge THANK YOU to our clients, our employees and all of our supporters over the last 12 years. Black swans do exist, and thrive, with a lot of help from their friends. THANK YOU! We’ll have a party after SchipulCon [...]
Tweet From our recent trip to Seattle – video of the Seattle Monorail. Like a rollercoaster, but slower.
Tweet From the New York Times Company Settles Case of Reviews It Faked Lifestyle Lift, a cosmetic surgery company, has reached a settlement with the State of New York over its attempts to fake positive consumer reviews on the Web, the New York attorney general’s office said Tuesday. The company had ordered employees to pretend [...]
Tweet Recent post on the Chron: The roaming chainsaw gangs of Houston. Hurricanes bring about unexpected responses in us humans. It’s like the first time you see your dog or cat catch a squirrel and they go all primal on it. And you are looking at your little FeFe thinking “WHERE the $#(@ did they [...]
Tweet The much hyped, but this IS James Cameron we are talking about, movie Avatar. Completely looking forward to this one!
Tweet The way I see it he said You just can’t win it Everybody’s in it for their own gain You can’t please ‘em all There’s always somebody calling you down I do my best And I do good business There’s a lot of people asking for my time They’re trying to get ahead They’re [...]
Tweet Ran into this 2004 economics paper referenced by Wayne Marr on twitter. Several quotes that jumped out at me for a variety of reasons. All economics links added by me. “The foundation blocks of standard finance were now in place, supporting one another. Investors are rational, prices are efficient, risk is measured by beta [...]