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Content “curation” can create authority

March 4, 2010

Traditionally, the most valued content was original.
This emphasis developed within a content model of constrained distribution and expensive production costs. When there are only a handful of distribution points for content — some magazines, books, a handful of TV station and radio stations — the way to build audience was to deliver original and [...]

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The January existing homes numbers point to a choppy, sustained recovery

March 2, 2010

The January home sales report from NAR felt to some people like a letdown — the annual rate of home sales dipped from 5.4 million in December to 5.04 million in January. Some pundits, citing the wildly wrong consensus projections from economists, characterized the results as a bad turn for the housing market.
Step back [...]

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Shiller says the national mood is the key to a recovery?

February 1, 2010

What role is human emotion playing in the prospects for an economic recovery?
Robert Shiller expressed his concern in this Sunday’s New York Times that a deflated population, burned by the excesses of the last decade, are feeling detached from the responsibility and opportunity to drive an economic recovery.
A USA Today/Gallup poll, for example, found this [...]

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A point in the displacement of Retail Sales by E-Commerce: Holiday Season 2009

January 18, 2010

The highlights of the holiday season are being presented in dribs and drabs. Earning seasons will tell us a lot. The consumer was clearly trying to generate energy in fits and starts. Spending was still tamped down.
But within the story about overall spending, there’s another significant trend: More and more buying [...]

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Local business & social media: A ground level view

January 6, 2010

Over the past four months I’ve had the opportunity to visit a number of markets around the country to give my presentation “The Hidden Power of Social Media: How to Improve Your Networking, Increase Your Web Traffic & Generate More Leads Just by Being Yourself.”
More than 700 people have attended these sessions. The attendees [...]

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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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10 years past, 10 years forward

December 23, 2009

10 doesn’t sound like a big number, but when you start looking back over a decade, 10 years of an ever-expanding and innovating world, 10 years feels huge and unwieldy.
At the beginning of this past decade (the first decade of the 21th Century…how cool!) I was working with an Internet company called Themestream, started by [...]

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