Fascinating article in yesterday’s New York Times about the growing number of young people who are turning off Facebook.
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When I started reading it I thought it might have to do with privacy concerns or with cyber stalking. Instead, the focus was on something near and dear to my heart and which I think is applicable to any of us in business. We’ve discussed it before and I think it’s worth discussing again.
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I attended the local tech meet-up last evening and the topic was being lean. No, not how to lose weight unless you’re counting the weight of excessive costs. Or as it said in the event description:
Lean and Agile are two related approaches that use startup mentality and an iterative approach to deliver results and new possibilities. We’ll take an overview of Lean, its opportunities and pitfalls and some broad approaches to adopt Lean thinking for you and your organization.
Great presentation (thanks, Dan), and it stimulated more thinking on yesterday’s topic, Facebook and its new set of features. So at the risk of beating a dead horse… Continue reading
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Her’s a question to start the day: Does a brand belong to the company or to the customer? Before you give me a knee-jerk reaction, think about it for a second. Does “New Coke” ring a bell? The company put out what it believed to be a better product and customers demanded that they restore the product to its former state. That’s the best example in my mind but I’m sure you can think of others.
The reason I bring it up this morning is a video I watched from Shore Communications in which John Blossom and Peter Propp discuss the Microsoft acquisition of Skype and how it might affect both brands. I’ve embedded the video below and you might want to spend 10 minutes to watch. In the interim, here’s my take. Continue reading
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