December 2011
3 posts
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Doctor of Community Management, Cmq.
The discussion of education and certification for online community managers is raised today on the blog of the always insightful Jeremiah Owyang. To summarize: the demand for community managers is rising, but no accepted standards exist yet, and while training can be beneficial, hands-on experience is still the dominant criteria for hiring.
Of course, this also echoes discussions being had...
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The Definition of Marketing
Just finished browsing through HubSpot’s “Ultimate Inbound Marketing Glossary” by Magdalena Georgieva, and I must say that for a lead generation tool it’s remarkably comprehensive. Adding links to the definitions and a short “how you can use this site or tool to market your product” would make it a powerful marketing primer. Of course, all this smart inbound...
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Yes, Gadget Fatigue is Real - No, Don't Do...
A report released by Underwriters Laboratories last week has found that of 1200 people surveyed in 4 countries, 48% feel, “high-tech manufacturers bring new products to market faster than people need them.” The NYT Bits blog does its part, calling it evidence of “gadget fatigue,” while TechCrunch says mainstream consumers are stuck in the ’90s and need to speed up....
September 2009
1 post
“Drug dealers are the perfect gurus for a recession or credit crunch. They live...”
– The FT only gets it right when they’re quoting 50 Cent
August 2009
1 post
“With my overpriced advisory services and profligate spending on luxury travel, I...”
– From a new book titled The Management Myth, which details the many ways in which consultants are really the worst people in the world.
May 2009
1 post
“The New York Post, perhaps the most laughable newspaper in America, noted for...”
– Dickipedia.org entry for Rupert Murdoch
March 2009
4 posts
“The pillars of the Six Sigma Business Philosophy: Teamwork, Insight, Brutality,...”
– The Best Show On TeeVee
WatchHeadless chickens, of course.
February 2009
4 posts
I →
Krugs is the ne plus ultra of dudes who have like, ah, Nobel prizes and still make jokes in pirate voice. Bet he laughs at farts.
“I like my women like my stimulus packages … conceived in a backroom full of...”
– From the ekonomizts @ BCO
“I like my women like my stimulus packages … FAST AND BULBOUS”
– From the ekonomizts @ BCO
January 2009
1 post
“In BR (before recession) times a banker boy would readily surrender his Hermes...”
– Dating A Banker Anonymous
December 2008
3 posts
November 2008
5 posts
“Everyone on the board should be fired as condition for a bailout, starting with...”
– Great quotes from the should GM be saved debate.
“In my dream world, GM would die and most of the workers would help build &...”
– Great quotes from the should GM be saved debate.
“Nationalize It And Give Us All Free Cars”
– Great quotes from the should GM be saved debate.
October 2008
1 post
September 2008
3 posts
The mobiles that feature Sony Ericsson’s music... →
I’m sure the hip cats at SE will get you all the hottest jams.
July 2008
1 post
June 2008
3 posts
May 2008
3 posts
I, For One, Welcome Our Media Overlords →
Hej lookee here! A grostesque orgy of ancient media tyrants barrons, and Arriana Huffington.
In Marketing Class We Call This Guy An Evangelist
Going Out in a Beer-can Casket SOUTH CHICAGO HEIGHTS, Ill. — Bill Bramanti will love Pabst Blue Ribbon eternally, and he’s got the custom-made beer-can casket to prove it. “I actually fit, because I got in here,” said Bramanti of South Chicago Heights. The 67-year-old Glenwood village administrator doesn’t plan on needing it anytime soon, though. He threw a party...
April 2008
6 posts
“Deciding under uncertainty is bad enough, but deciding under an illusion of...”
– Kenneth Boulding (1910-1993)
Making a Mint (in the Russian) Capital →
Met with one of the partners at Mint Capital, Gleb Davidyuk, in Moscow last week. He had some great perspectives on private equity investing in Russia. Essentially, they use all their own money, not leverage, and only invest in entrepreneurial companies with existing positive cash flows, but no startups. As Gleb said, “Everything in Russia is a venture.”
HBS Blog Causes IBS
This “The MFA is the new MBA” post on harvardbusiness.org is the exact type of chicken-soup for your brain-dead readers that they’ve been serving up for months now. A word of advice to the worlds most famous university: more videos of Michael Porter’s nip and tucked face and less posts cobbled together by the interns. Here are four things an MBA might actually learn from...
Getting a Head in Life
This is the first post on aheadindustry. All posts after this will relate to technology, life, or business topics I find interesting. Main topics will be european business, the media business, various and sundry other web/internet/digital business, and occasional business schooly stuffs. It’s mostly concerned with making sure the absurd humor of global industry doesn’t go unoticed.