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Entries for May, 2008

Development vs. Marketing. Is it war?

Well, I did learn a thing or two but what my mind has been constantly regurgitating since that morning is Mr. Barber’s reflections on the typical, and often disastrous, split within organizations that occurs between the staff in the development department and those staff in the marketing department. It is true for some reason that these are two groups are frequently at odds with each other.

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What Corporate America Should Learn from Nonprofits

Or - Why DRM is DReaMy!
Corporate America can and should take a page or two from the handbooks of many nonprofit organizations, and if this Strange Bird has anything to do with it, some of them soon will.
I’ve already talked here [some might say rant] about CRM being CRuMmy [and I'm not done yet either] [...]

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Twitter Explained…somewhat

I have to thank a new acquaintance of mine, Mr. Pat Howlett, for posting this video on the inside919 community website .The video was created bu Mr. Lee LeFever and does a very good job of explaining Twitter in plain English. While Twit [for short] makes better sense to me after viewing it, I am [...]

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Social Networking. Employer Security Concern?

At a recent chamber event I heard a presentation advising employers that they should be doing fairly regular post-hire background checks on employees in addition to pre-hire checks. The arguments were for were pretty persuasive. The issue got me thinking about social networking sites. The sites, and therefore the lives of their users, are increasingly [...]

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