May 15th, 2008
Phil Donahue on CBC Radio’s As It Happens:
Who’s to blame?
“The American people are. We elect leaders who talk tough, who say ‘Bring it on,’ instead of bringing help.”
“Every major daily paper in the United States was behind this war.”
Donahue has discovered the documentary film format, and spoke with soldiers and their families about the personal […]
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May 14th, 2008
If a little bit of advertiser involvement in podcasts is good, a lot is better, right?
No!
Let’s look at two business podcasts and how they treat their advertisers (or “sponsors”, if you want to pretend it’s not advertising).
On For Immediate Release, Shel Holtz and Neville Hobson talked openly about adding commentaries prepared and voiced by their […]
By Eric Eggertson -- 22 comments
May 7th, 2008
Customers of VOIP phone services are supposed to alert their service provider if they move, so the instructions can be changed for emergency services responding to a 911 call.
But that doesn’t mean the company is off the hook. A family in Calgary lost their 18-month-old son after ambulance crews were dispatched to an old […]
By Eric Eggertson -- 1 comment
April 26th, 2008
I don’t hate advertising.
It’s bad advertising that either has me laughing or crying, depending on whether it’s interrupting me or filling some dead time in my otherwise busy life.
If advertising didn’t exist (see Life without Advertising: Quiet, Too Quiet?), I would have to do more research to find what I need or want. […]
By Eric Eggertson -- 1 comment
April 26th, 2008
Would you miss advertising if it didn’t exist?
That’s what Terry O’Reilly asked today on his radio series The Age of Persuasion.
In this week’s episode, he takes us to a world where ads don’t exist. Neither does Google, or free TV shows, or most of the fashion industry.
A quieter world, yes. But maybe not as idyllic […]
By Eric Eggertson -- 2 comments
April 19th, 2008
One of my favorite bloggers is talking about the questionnaire he and his partner filled in for the architect of their home-to-be.
Darren Barefoot nails the whole questionnaire dilemma. If the questions ask you to say what you want, you won’t be able to describe the things that you don’t know you want.
The “worryingly abstract” questions […]
By Eric Eggertson -- 1 comment
March 18th, 2008
An audacious statement helps you stand out from the crowd.
A bombastic statement makes you stand out for the wrong reasons.
PerfectBusiness.com isn’t content to offer useful services for those starting a business. Instead, it stands on a soapbox and shouts to the world:
“New Web Site Aims to Boost U.S. Economy by Driving Startups”
All that’s missing is […]
By Eric Eggertson -- 2 comments
March 15th, 2008
Outward-facing communication shouldn’t use jargon and inside jokes, but internally, the sky’s the limit.
For communication with and among employees, the use of nicknames, jargon and inside jokes is part of what bonds people together. Forcing the language to fit a preconceived notion of Strunk & White clarity can make work seem too much like work.
Relax […]
By Eric Eggertson -- 3 comments
March 14th, 2008
Slightly bloodied, but unbowed, Sarah Lacy won’t let a Twitterstorm get her down.
The Business Week columnist spent an uncomfortable interview/heckling session at the South by Southwest Interactive conference, but isn’t overly apologetic about the interview. Comments during and after the session on Twitter got pretty nasty. She says:
“But don’t blame Twitter. Social technologies are […]
By Eric Eggertson -- 1 comment
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