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Having watched the segment on working moms (premium content, requires free login) on last Sunday's Carte Blanche, the subject of balance touched a chord, yet again. Very aptly put by one of the interviewees, we seek the "Three C's" in career, cash and children and...
This article was in this weekend's Sunday Times about the challenges facing Gen Xers in the UK and how it is influencing their working choices. Not quite what they had planned.... http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1743391,00.html A report due to be released...
Tom Peters highly recommends the book, "EVEolution:The Eight Truths of Marketing to Women" by Faith Popcorn & Lys Marigold (buy it at Amazon.com or Kalahari.net). In his generic presentation on Re-Imagine, Peters extracts some key learnings for anyone who takes women...
Written by Barrie Bramley and Graeme Codrington. There is no doubt that Diversity is playing itself out as a critical factor in business today. In some countries, especially those with histories of institutionalised oppression (like South Africa, or the USA) it is...
What is RSS and why should you care? Consensus is that RSS is an acronym for Real Simple Syndication. Syndication is the key word here. Wikipedia defines RSS as "a family of XML file formats for web syndication used by (amongst other things) news websites and...
CGM "encompasses the millions of consumer-generated comments, opinions and personal experiences posted in publicly available online sources on a wide range of issues, topics, products and brands" and originates from: * Blogs * Message boards and forums * Public...
Gizmodo has just notified us that the PS3 is available on pre-order from Amazon.com. My mom never let me get a PS1 - said it would interfere with my schoolwork. My wife won't let me get a PS2 - something about "but I'll never see you!". Can't imagine why. No-one is...
I’m heading to China next Saturday (27 Aug) for 10 days.
There is a rumbling in the blogosphere... Blog Business Summit 2005 officially kicked off yesterday in San Francisco, attracting some of the world's finest writers, web guru's, uber-geeks and a horde of eager-to-learn companies to hear leading blogging experts share...
Late last week, Roger Saner (our web uber-maester) and myself were meeting at a Coffee Shop to work through some web design issues. As we sat there, a woman who was meeting with a friend came over to us and said she was doing a feature on "The Third Space" - people...
The more business blogs I read, whether they are actual business blogs or sites about corporate blogging, the more I realise that corporates who embrace blogging are faced with a difficult challenge; guidelines vs. traffic. It's rare to find both hand in hand....
Adage.com ran a story under this title on 27 July 2005 (read it here - requires free login). The basic argument is that some action groups are demanding that Congress regulate mobile phones marketed to children. The industry is clearly targeting young children as its...
We all hate spam (except for the Monty Python “Spam” skit, but that was, well, completely different). And there’s been very little way to fight back…until now! The Blue Frogs are pioneering a way to stop spammers – by shutting down their websites if they don’t stop sending spam.
I read this interesting article on the Fast Company website (click here to read the article.) The article talks about "flow" - that state of being when you are completely immersed in doing something you love. And the question: how do we achieve that it business? Hmmm...
Thanks to Steve Rubel for an awesome link. The FedEx Furniture dot com guy (Jose) loves FedEx. So much so, that his entire apartment is furnished with FedEx packaging. He raves about it online and has an eclectic readership who are fascinated by his obsession. As...
...is Time Europe's phrase-of-choice when describing word-of-mouth networks and tagging in this article entitled Taming the Wild Web, published on the 14th August. A great quote from the article states, "...companies are banking on the notion that, in the aggregate,...
Ooooh, this is a goodie. Possibly the best example of the Connection Economy I have seen at work. The Business Experiment is an open-source business adventure. Check out this blog entry from the site which gives a short explanation of the concept. Go and read it, I...
Wikipedia is an open source, free-to-use online encyclopedia built by people like us for people like us. In order to cater for cultures across the globe, Wikipedia offers it's content in hundreds of different languages. Problem is, content is not simply translated...
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