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It's Time to Let Go of All That
There's a lot of noise out there -- offline and on -- about how to "save" newspapers and other crumbling media institutions, but precious little signal to it all. A U.S Senator is calling for allowing newspapers to attain non-profit status, under which...
Tags: Media Company, Newspaper, Media, Exec, Tech People, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, David Weir
Blog posts 2009-03-24

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Behind the scenes with the worst tech product of all time
Remember Microsoft Bob, the moronic Windows add-in that was supposed to present a user-friendly interface to computer users --- probably the worst tech product of all time? A former Microsoft exec involved in working on Bob just published a blog post about her experiences -- and surprisingly, she's still a...
Tags: product, Microsoft Corp., lesson, Tech Product
News items 2009-08-19
The Tech Solution To The Recession
Just as 2008 was defined by Barack Obama's electoral victory, 2009 will be defined by another competition the incoming administration sparked: the race to grab the hundreds of billions of dollars the president-elect has pledged to spend revamping America's infrastructure. Unlike the beleaguered automakers and banks, high-tech companies aren't begging...
News items 2009-08-07
Maybe High Tech Should Become More Exclusive
For years, high tech has largely been the home of the mass market mindset. Given the marginal cost of new product units, it's little wonder. An additional software license is the cost of a piece of paper and burning a DVD, and for hardware, when you've moved into selling millions...
Tags: Software, Customer Satisfaction, Computer Software, Product Marketing, Tools & Techniques, Sales Strategy, Wireless, Marketing, Management, Sales, Erik Sherman
Blog posts 2008-07-11
Tech Roundup: Entellium Arrests, Verizon Support, H-1B Fraud, More
FBI arrests Entellium CEO, CFO -- The FBI arrested Entellium's CEO Paul Thomas Johnson and CFO Parrish Jones for allegedly falsifying revenue figures and presenting them to the board as part of a scheme to get about $50 million invested in the company. Last month an employee cleaning out the...
Tags: Entellium, Financial, Financial Service, Verizon Communications Inc., Fraud, H-1B, Financial Planning, Litigation, Financial Services, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Finance, Business Operations, Erik Sherman
Blog posts 2008-10-10
Facebook's TOS Debacle and Six Lessons for Tech Companies
Facebook's recent collision with user sentiments over changing its terms of service TOS only got as much press as it did because it was so public. But there are lessons to be learned by any tech company that potentially might welcome online interaction with customers â€" which, these days, seems...
Tags: Social Networking, Facebook, Terms Of Service, Erik Sherman
Blog posts 2009-02-19
Windfall of 2008 Tech Media Forecasts
Last week, the Silicon Valley chapter of the PRSA held its annual "media predictions" event, this year featuring six of the top tech media professionals (Kara Swisher, Co-Executive Editor, D:All Things Digital Blog and Conference, Rob Hof, Silicon Valley Bureau Chief, BusinessWeek, Jim Goldman, Silicon Valley Bureau Chief, CNBC, Victoria...
Tags: Corporate Communications, Public Relations, Video, Online Privacy, Silicon Valley, Marketing, Jon Greer
Blog posts 2007-12-03
How Tech Companies Should Position for Shareholders -- Part I
Financial institutions have been in the crosshairs of public -- and investor -- disgust. Well, duh. But it's not as though other economic sectors are immune for reputation malaise. That's a problem in any industry, but particularly in technology, where share prices become a measure of whom a company can...
Tags: Shareholder, Financial, Investor Relations, Investor, Investor Relations People, Financial Accounting, Finance, Erik Sherman
Blog posts 2009-10-13
Media Tech Summit: 'Twitter Is A Pulse?But It's A Biased One'
One of the most well-received sessions at the Media Tech Summit went by so fast and was so stuffed with numbers that I wanted to have the slides in front of me before I did more than tweet about it. The Harvard Business School team of Miklolaj Jan Piskorski,...
Tags: Facebook, Women, Twitter Inc., MySpace, Miklolaj Jan Piskorski, Gender And Diversity, Human Resources, Research & Metrics, Research, Social Media, Companies, News Corp., Twitter, Staci D. Kramer
External links 2009-10-06
The tech behind U2's record-smashing tour
The Edge and Bono perform before 96,000 fans during the U2 360 concert Sunday at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif.(Credit: Daniel Terdiman/CNET)PASADENA, Calif.--If you were one of the 96,000 people packed into the Rose Bowl Sunday night for the U2 concert--said to be the largest concert ever held here--you...
Tags: Google Inc., YouTube Inc., Concert, Google Earth
News items 2009-10-26
Setting Your Sights on High-Tech Sites
One of the most exciting and challenging responsibilities a site selector can have is to be significantly involved with conceptualizing, constructing, and/or operating high-tech buildings! The excitement comes from analyzing and interpreting business objectives, drivers, and opportunities in terms of a physical infrastructure that will generate success. Being on the...
Tags: High-technology Company, Group C Communications, Strategy, Management
White papers 2003-05-01
Lessons from High Tech Hokum, Pt 2.
Lessons from High Tech Hokum, Pt 2.One more thing...I was talking about this post with a good friend of mine, who's been in sales for a quarter of a century. He told me that the "profound truth" behind high tech hokum is somewhat more simple than the one I...
Tags: B2B, High Tech Hokum, Pt 2, trinket, Y2K
Discussion threads 2008-02-28
Micro-Tech leads mission to Mexico.(Micro-Tech Hearing Instruments)
PLYMOUTH, MN--Earlier this year, Larry Hagen, president of Micro-Tech Hearing Instruments, and Gordon Bye, senior vice-president, participated with a group of Micro-Tech friends and employees on a humanitarian mission to Guaymas, Mexico. This group fitted approximately 180 disadvantaged people with hearing aids. ...
Tags: Micro-Tech Hearing Instruments
Research articles 2000-09-01
Right Management acquires People Tech Consulting
PHILADELPHIA--BUSINESS WIRE--April 11, 1996--Right Management Consultants Inc. (NASDAQ:RMCI), which does business as Right AssociatesR, Thursday announced the completion of its acquisition of People Tech Consulting Inc., a Toronto-based change management consulting firm.The transaction is effective as of March 1, 1996. People Tech, currently with operations in Toronto, Montreal, Boston...
Tags: Right Management Consultants Inc.
Research articles 1996-04-11
How Apple saved Taiwan and turns on tomorrow's people
Nokia's move to slam a lawsuit down against the Apple juggernaut's profit phone hasn't dented iPhone enthusiasm one little bit. The device is impacting everywhere right now, with Apple's iPhone component partners in particularly jubilant mood as millions of the devices shift every 13 weeks. ...
Tags: Apple Inc., Apple iPhone
News items 2009-10-23
AOL's Board Draws from All Parts of the Media-Tech-Advertising Ecosystem
AOL named the board that will serve it after it spins out from Time Warner today, and it's a revealing reflection of what AOL essentially is, and always has been: a populist technology company. While the board certainly has tech representation, it also has old-school media and advertising representation, and...
Tags: Advertisement, America Online Inc., Board, AllThingsD, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Catharine P. Taylor
Blog posts 2009-10-26
Low times for high tech as CES opens
Bill Gates isn't at the International Consumer Electronics Show. Steve Jobs isn't at Macworld. In fact, Apple Inc. is leaving the trade show for good after this year. The absences of the titans of personal computing at the most important conventions in the industry are evidence that, one way or...
News items 2009-08-07
@ Ad:tech: Jon Miller: People Will Pay For Premium Content?Kindle Is A Good Example
[In progress] A day after News Corp (NYSE: NWS). posted higher Q3 losses in its Digital Media Group fka Fox Interactive Media resulting from lower search revenue and restructuring costs, Jon Miller, chief digital officer/chairman and CEO of the company’s interactive unit, opened day two of Ad:tech NY saying...
Tags: Advertisement, Restructuring, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Advertising, Media & Publishing, Events, Ad:Tech, Companies, News Corp., David Kaplan
External links 2009-11-05
Leading Clever People
The Idea in Brief ...
Tags: Expertise, In Brief, Rob Goffee, Gareth Jones, Creativity, Leader, Knowledge, Harvard Business Review, Knowledge Worker, Management, Business Operations, Research & Development, Strategy, Leadership, Product Development
Articles 2007-11-07
Leading Clever People
The Idea in Brief ...
Tags: Gareth Jones, Rob Goffee, Management, Business Operations, Research & Development, Strategy, Leadership, Product Development, Creativity, Leader, Knowledge, Expertise, BNET Editorial
Articles 2007-10-12
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