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The value of sharing knowledge, even when it’s not about your product

February 18, 2010

Over the past year, I’ve been encouraging our teams to have gain expertise about social media and have conversations with their customers about how these new tools can help them in their business.
Where I’ve met resistance is from people who ask, Why? Our business is advertising, and we’ve got print and internet products to [...]

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What does the mobile internet look like?

February 12, 2010

The terms mobile internet and applications are pretty much abstractions unless you are right in the middle of it.
If you’re not one of the 10 million people or so who’ve moved to the iPhone, let me give you a brief tour of Let me show you what it means.
The four images to the right are [...]

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Some observations about why Doug Manoni should be successful at Source Media

January 20, 2010

Congratulations to my friend and former colleague Doug Manoni, who was named CEO of Source Media this week.
Doug and I worked at Cowles Business Media through the better part of the 1990′s. At the end, Doug was my CFO.
He’s an interesting study for people who wonder about the future of business-to-business companies. Doug [...]

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Frick & Frack ruminate & give us a lesson on the present day nature of political discourse

January 18, 2010

“If necessity knows no law, then neither does power”
I’ve been musing over the state of our national discourse a lot recently.
The stakes of our socioeconomic quandary feel very stark. Mountains of debt and millions of unemployed putting pressure on a systems of goods, services and production that looks like what philosophers call a self-contained [...]

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A social media case study: Spynergy Cycling Studio

January 8, 2010

Bill Pryor, a colleague of mine, posted a great comment to my post on the ground level view of social media the other day. Somehow, the comment disappeared. Bill gives a very detailed look at just how social media has helped his business.
Here’s the comment:

Dan, as an SMB owner myself, I own [...]

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Happy New Year!

December 31, 2009

Wishing everyone a safe and healthy Happy New Year. A special thank you to everyone at NCI. In 2009 you demonstrated remarkable strength, perseverance, energy and good spirits. My wish for all of you is that in 2010 your labors bear fruit. I hope that we all remember the lessons of the past year and [...]

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Post #336

December 21, 2009

On January 4, I posted the first of more than 335 posts published in 2009 on this blog.
That first post was a Welcome and Introduction. I laid out my intention to  some of the best thinking about the economy, media and marketing that I encountered as I travelled around the country doing the things that [...]

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