Maybe it was: -The rash of Web 2.0 acquisitions (Brightcove + MetaStories, Google + Writely, SixApart + SplashBlog) – The sense that Web 2.0 is becoming a pile of me-too’s copying less than useful applications – The general need for Spring to spring – All of the above Either way, the above MacLeod got stuck …
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Notes on Recruiting Talent in a Knowledge Economy
As part of my work with Joe Urban, I was invited to the Minnesota Chapter of the Urban Land Institute Young Leaders Group’s panel discussion on attracting and retaining young, creative people in Minnesota. On the panel: Jeff Berg from Olson Molly Culligan from M. Culligan Associates Michael Logan from Target Philippe Vergne from Walker …
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The Business Models of Water Part 2
Ryan Bradshaw pointed me to Future of Music Book. The entire first chapter is on how music is like water and how some of the richest companies in the world are water utilities. Hmmmm – reminds me of something I wrote.
The Business Models of Water
As a follow-up to How to Build a Business from Podcasting I thought I’d share this with you: There’s a case of Ice Mountain bottled water in my kitchen (the extra big case from CostCo). There’s also 2 Brita pitchers in my fridge and 4 Nalgene bottles – of different sizes – in the cupboard. …
Starbucks is Ideal for Lazy Vacationers
The wife and I spent this past weekend in the middle of Wisconsin. We’re both particular about our coffee and we both enjoy joking about measuring distance in Starbucks. At home, we prefer local roasters like Dunn Bros or White Rock. But you don’t know the relief we sighed when Wausau got their first Starbucks. …
How Not To Hire Someone
A while back, Fast Company published Keith Hammonds’ Why We Hate HR. Like myself, I’m sure you have some remarkable ‘Everything was going great, then HR…’ stories. Whether it’s ridiculous, time-wasting hoops (asking candidates to complete an application even though you have their resume) or just not doing a simple Google search on a candidate …
CollegeRecruiter.com is Podcasting
Over the weekend we set up and launched the CollegeRecruiter.com podcast using BetDirCaster. Integration into their existing site went quickly. More quickly than I anticipated. I’m excited about podcasts like this; timeless information to a niche audience in 10 minutes or less. This also gave me an opportunity to tweak BetDirCaster. It now; formats the …
Business Podcast Sighting: Cisco
Had another conversation yesterday about how podcasting can help business communicate and connect both internally and externally. One thing coming out of these conversations – there’s probably audio or video somewhere in your organization that is collecting dust and could be more used and more useful in an RSS feed. Aside from the convenience, there’s …
Fix the Employee Cafeteria and You’ll Fix the Customer Relationship
Rob over at Business Pundit posts on How Broken Windows Can Kill a Business. As always, insightful. I’m a big fan of fixing the small things. Not only does it make a change easier to implement, all big things are made of small things, so the big things start to take care of themselves. The …
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Podcasting Rewards Good Conversation, Not Celebrity
Greg Lindsay over at Business 2.0 linked to the Working Pathways’ economics of podcasting post in his Podcasting’s Nonstar System article. “An unknown number of those Apple-made microstars will convince themselves that they hold a first-mover advantage in an untapped medium…Eventually they’ll fail, and they’ll fail faster than ever before…For the first time in the …
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