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Is Twitter the messaging system we never knew we needed?

2009 Apr 6
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Maybe so—although, if you’re watching Stephen Colbert, you might be a bit confused. When Colbert hosted Biz Stone, one of the co-founders of Twitter, he was characteristically hard on him. “This sounds like the answer to a problem that we didn’t know we had until I invented the answer,” he said. On the other hand, [...]

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Is there a cure for 2.0 dizziness?

2009 Apr 2
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Feeling a bit dizzy? You’re not alone. The rush to social media is a neck-snapping blur, powered in part by the economic downturn. In fact, it seems ages ago that a certain law school warned its students not to avoid indulging in street drugs, kidnapping, or other patently illegal acts, but to avoid…blogging. (True story, [...]

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A Lesson in rethinking the future from Kettering University

2009 Mar 25
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A long-time client for admissions, research, and consulting services, Kettering University appears in the New York Times today, with the spotlight on “the West Point of the auto industry’s” prescient efforts to expand its industry ties beyond Detroit.
Although programs in this top-notch, hands-on university have been traditionally for students pursuing industrial and automotive engineering jobs, [...]

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In a recession, fix the online potholes

2009 Mar 3
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When I first visited Chicago in the late 1970s, you couldn’t find a road without a pothole or an alley that wasn’t blocked by someone’s abandoned Pinto. Much of the near southwest side was a mire of unmarked streets and buildings scarred by riots from a decade before. Every complaint you heard was followed up [...]

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Flashes of Inspiration – Resources for Tracking Marketing Innovation

2009 Feb 16
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The following are three sites I visit as sources of interesting stuff and flashes of inspiration.  Some have marketing relevance others have talks and presentations given by the most creative minds of our generation.  But whatever the content, they never fail to reveal something interesting about the human psyche, marketing of social campaigns, good design, [...]

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Best Places for Marketing Trends

2009 Jan 21
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People here frequently ask me where I get info on marketing trends. The list is long. But browse some of my favorites here.

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