March 2010

Lately I’ve been struck by the messy, unintended consequences of the wrenching changes that the practice of marketing is going through. One such consequence is how hard it has become to get a big picture view of what’s going on in the marketplace, where your best opportunities might lie — whatever market your business or [...]

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Ringtones at Work

March 17, 2010

Ringtones at work: what does your ringtone selection say about who you are? Is it appropriate for use in a business setting or professional context?

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It’s been a curious 24 hours. First, snow falling on daffodils and cherry blossoms (our first of the season, here in Seattle). Then, 2 people emailed me, having found my blogs, to inquire about contributing posts for this blog and my personal blog. The requests, while flattering, caught me off guard. They made me realize [...]

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As a practical indicator of social media adoption, I’ve been looking for signs of how Twitter is used by people within my business networks, and in particular, by my clients. My non-scientific research suggests that email, phone calls, or in-person meetings still dramatically outweigh the use of Twitter in the business communications and interactions I see on a day-to-day basis. What’s interesting about this is that my clients are all in the high-tech arena

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In a prior post I discussed my problems trying to replace Windows 7 Release Candidate on a MacBook Pro under Bootcamp. This weekend I took another shot at it, having found some posts that suggested my issues might be related to disk fragmentation. You may have to defrag your disk first Thanks to these posts, [...]

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If you’ve been running Windows 7 RC on a MacBook Pro in a Bootcamp partition, beware. The path to reinstalling Windows 7 is fraught with problems, hassles, risks and time wasters. Quick summary, if you don’t want to read the rest of this post. After several hours of effort each day, over several days, I [...]

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