Nov 06, 2009

Submitted by Andycoote: I talk a lot about "tapping into emotional hot buttons" – so much so that in a recent class I taught an author stood up and said: "Ok, enough already! Everyone talks about emotional hot buttons but what are they?" Good question and I suspect it's one many of us in marketing forget ourselves from time to time. So let's look (Read More)

Apr 27, 2009

Submitted by Andycoote: Before the days of linguistic inflation, 100% was considered enough. But no longer, says Chris Bowlby, in a personal reflection on how language has changed.How committed are you to finishing this article? 110%? Maybe 150%? Or, if you're in the US, perhaps 1,000% is what you need to say to show you really care.But hang on a (Read More)

Apr 08, 2009

Business Week Messaging with the boss much? Maybe you ought to be. Workers who have strong communication ties with their managers tend to bring in more money than those who steer clear of the boss, according to a new analysis of social networks in the workplace by IBM (IBM) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.The research, released (Read More)

Apr 03, 2009

Submitted by Andycoote from Twitter: RT @webaddict You’re NOT a Social Media Expert, You Idiot! http://cli.gs/AjhjvL #sm #socialmedia - apt and, sadly, true. (Read More)

Feb 23, 2009

Last.fm ? the Blog So do us a favour – if you see people spreading the rumour, refer them to this blog post and mention you heard from a friend that “Techcrunch are full of shit.”. (Read More)

Feb 23, 2009

Submitted by Andycoote: Commercial Farmers Union President Trevor Gifford said 77 properties had been occupied in the last fortnight.MPs, police, the military and Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe officials had taken part in the invasions, he said.Many of the farmers targeted recently mounted a successful legal challenge to government land reforms, he adde (Read More)

Feb 23, 2009

The Guardian A young woman has been given police protection after a video clip of her undressing in a bedroom was circulated on the internet, provoking a debate about how the law deals with morals and technology in India.The short film is thought to have been taken by an MBA student who decided to release it to his friends when his girl (Read More)

Feb 22, 2009

Seth's Blog (Read More)

Feb 20, 2009

EurekAlert! - Breaking News Psychologist Tad T. Brunye from the US Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center (NSRDEC) and Tufts University, along with Tali Ditman, Caroline R. Mahoney and Holly A. Taylor from Tufts University and Jason S. Augustyn from the US Army NSRDEC, investigated how pronouns can influence the way we imagin (Read More)

Feb 18, 2009

Submitted by Andycoote: The Wall Street Journal announced it is cutting about 25 of its 760 newsroom positions on Thursday. A spokesman for the newspaper said the cuts were made through a combination of layoffs, buyouts and elimination of job openings. The Journal has about 760 newsroom employees. The Wall Street Journal is published by Dow (Read More)

Jan 22, 2009

Between the Lines Embedded in Microsoft’s earnings report and restructuring news was an implicit message that’s hard to ignore: Netbooks are disruptive and wreaking havoc in the industry.On the surface, Microsoft’s earnings report (initial take, statement, Techmeme) had a bevy of bad news. Earnings were short of expectation (Read More)

Feb 11, 2009

Business Week (Read More)

Feb 03, 2009

guardian.co.uk Society Peter Stone was approaching the end of a long career in the army when he witnessed an event in Croatia in 1995 that was to ruin the next decade of his life. Walking through a village, he came across three Croatian children, aged 11, nine and seven. A father of four himself, Stone's instinct was to talk to them. He even reac (Read More)

Jan 25, 2009

Delicious/ajkohn2001 (Read More)

Jan 29, 2009

Submitted by Andycoote: Ford Motor (F) lost $14.6 billion in 2008, its worst annual performance in 105 years, as the U.S. auto market collapsed in the fourth quarter. But the company is sticking to its plan to not ask for U.S. Treasury loans, counter to what rivals General Motors (GM) and Chrysler are doing to cope with historic losses.More import (Read More)

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