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1. The youths infatuation with tattoos shows that they don't recognize the concept of permanence, and they reject the idea of skin growing old on them. Tattoos are such a turn off. They scream "skank" or "trailer trash." Another fashion that needs to go: Wearing pants at half mast. Ugh -- Dang. 2. It has got to be the tongue piercing, when you are looking for a job, hired by my generation. I tant undtand a tang your thaying -- Gary Cuff. 3. I'd like to see the following cease: Spandex on overweight women, ganny Pouches worn on the rotund belly of sixtyish+ men. Please make it go awaaaaaay -- Stopthecrazygrowth. 4. I'm watching a women's volleyball game on TV right now, and if the 2-piece suits they're wearing get ANY SMALLER, they MIGHT AS WELL be wearing thongs! (Soft-porn meets network sports events?) (Volleyball cheesecake?) I don't know about you, but I'd get paranoid if I had to parade around, 75% nude, chasing volleyballs, not only in front of the crowd, but on network TV! -- CDADave.
The New Focus Groups: Online Networks
Some have created profiles on popular social-networking sites such as Facebook and News Corp.'s MySpace, while others, including Procter & Gamble, have set up their own social-networking sites. But many of those efforts have fallen flat, because people typically join a social-networking venue not to talk about brands but to socialize with friends. Other marketers, particularly in the tech community, have tried scanning blogs for consumer insights. Networks such as "I Love My Dog" help remove some of the guesswork for marketers, by letting brands know exactly to whom they are talking -- and giving them more control over the discussions. The companies work with technology firms such as MarketTools and Passenger to create the members-only networks, whose participants are often drawn from a company's internal databases.
Civil Affairs in Israel, Public Relations Image Challenge
Politicians started following the leads of marketing firms and hiring PR consultants to help them dress, speak and convey their message - or image - and reach their target audiences. Politicians in Israel have only begun to take such strategies seriously in recent years, holding on strongly to traditional, informal ways. Golda Meir used to smoke cigarettes while being interviewed on TV. And years later in 1993, When Teddy Kollek ran for mayoral reelection in Jerusalem, he hired a very young and recent army press-corps graduate as his PR director, and a lay art staff to design his posters, many of which were made by hand. He also smoked cigars publicly. Israeli candidates for prime minister started hiring American consultants as far back as 1977, but it wasn't until the 1999 elections, when Binyamin Netanyahu hired Arthur Finkelstein and Ehud Barak brought in James Carville, Stanley Greenberg and Bob Shrum, that top American consultants totally revamped the Israeli electioneering process to follow American marketing strategies.
The lowdown on Office 2007
Don't confuse SharePoint with a wiki. While both are designed to share documents and (to some extent) manage workflows, and both can be viewed in a browser, SharePoint has tight integration with Office applications, can notify you when content changes, can integrate multiple calendars (and sync them with Outlook), and allows that content to be almost seamlessly incorporated into your own documents. Other components of Office we did not test include Groove 2007, which lets you review documents collaboratively in real-time, InfoPath as a collection tool for an Access database, the ability to update Microsoft Project files through SharePoint, and Excel's Data Connection Library (to connect spreadsheets to corporate data sources). We also did not test the ability of SharePoint to administer and deploy business forms using Office InfoPath 2007 templates as browser-based forms that don't need any additional software running on the user's machine.
Systemax saves CompUSA from knacker's yard
Systemax is buying the CompUSA brand name, its ecommerce operations and up to 16 stores in the great CompUSA close-out sale. The big US computer reseller hails CompUSA as a "strong complementary" business to its own retail TigerDirect brand and is paying up to $30m for its new baby, depending on how many stores it actually buys. CompUSA went titsup last month, selling itself to Gordon Brothers for an undisclosed sum. Gordon, a Boston-based restructuring specialist, said it would it close CompUSA's 103 retail stores in an orderly wind-down and run the electronics retailer's ecommerce site until a buyer was found. .
Getting Past ‘Oh!’: Why Americans Misunderestimate the Depravity ...
Most Americans have long ago now reached two conclusions about their government. First, that George W. Bush is an incompetent president with, additionally, a temperament ill-suited to the job. And second, that his grand project - the invasion of Iraq - was a major mistake. Both these conclusions are absolutely incorrect. But only by omission. They are, in fact, quite accurate as far as they go - it's just that they don't go nearly far enough. Bush is incompetent and Iraq is likely the greatest foreign policy blunder in two-plus centuries of American history. But to say that - and particularly to say that alone - does not truly do justice to either disaster, Bush or his war. The truth about this president and his motives for war are far, far uglier than the words ‘incompetence' or ‘mistake' imply.
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