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Steve Gordon, longtime Seattle basketball figure, ensnares Ballmer, others in failed business dealsGeoff Baker, The Seattle Times
SEATTLE -- Steve Gordon says he did so much grunt work for billionaires, he couldn't help trying to wheel and deal like them.
The former Sonics employee and longtime Seattle basketball figure, known as the "Hat Man," faces serious trouble after failed business ventures here and overseas. Two lawsuits against him seek a combined $15 million. And Gordon says he owes at least $5 million to about 20 investors, including NBA players Brandon Roy and Jamal Crawford and others he met during decades working on local basketball courts.
Gordon, 61, spent a quarter-century on Sonics special assignments, helping some of their biggest names recover from injuries or perfect their skills. Stories abounded about the "gym rat" in the backward baseball cap, whose likability and work ethic connected him to some of the nation's wealthiest men.
But knowing famous and powerful people meant Gordon also could drop names and spin some serious yarns. And one particular story could prove his undoing: how longtime friend--now ex-friend--Steve Ballmer was financially backing him in business ventures here and overseas.
That's because Ballmer says it's untrue, that he only recently learned his onetime pal was using his name. He suspects his signature was forged on a document and that someone impersonated him on phone calls with prospective investors.
Nevertheless, Ballmer, 58, who last month purchased the NBA's Los Angeles Clippers for $2 billion, is now a co-defendant in the two lawsuits against Gordon in King County Superior Court.
Gordon's own statements, along with court documents, financial records, private email exchanges and interviews, portray him as a man desperate to prove himself by making ambitious business deals. In the end, his ventures cost a retired Seattle scientist nearly $1million and an Australian basketball Hall of Famer his job. They resulted in multimillion-dollar lawsuits. And they ensnared one of the world's richest men.
A statement released on Ballmer's behalf says he terminated contact last July after discovering Gordon "may have fraudulently represented to third parties that (he) was a business partner of Ballmer in order to obtain money from investors."
It said Ballmer never was a "representative, partner or co-investor" with Gordon, nor had he hired him as his employee or agent.
No one disputer the men had personal history, including financial support and other assistance given Gordon by Ballmer.
They'd become friends after a 1990 introduction at the Pro Sports Club in Bellevue, where Sonics and Microsoft employees shared workout facilities. Gordon gave Ballmer and other Microsoft executives weekly basketball lessons for years.
Gordon taught basketball to Ballmer's children, who nicknamed him "Coachie."
He attended Ballmer's 40th birthday party, then his 50th in the Caribbean with Paul Allen, Bill Gates and other exclusive guests.
Ballmer also helped Gordon pay about $1.6 million in real estate and tax liabilities starting in 1999. A decade later, Ballmer began giving Gordon $9,900 per month to help with his finances.
When a despondent Gordon contacted Ballmer about his latest debts in May 2013, Ballmer flew him on his private jet to the Menninger Clinic, a psychiatric hospital in Houston, and paid for a six-week stay.
But with Gordon hospitalized, the friendship came to a screeching halt.
On July 16, a local businessman warned in a letter to Ballmer that Gordon was claiming he and Ballmer were partners and planned to commit $5.2 million to a venture with the businessman. The letter said somebody claiming to be Ballmer got on a telephone conference call, assuring the money was on the way.
A stunned Ballmer emailed Gordon two days later to tell him he was cutting ties.
"You have lied to me and had people impersonate me and misrepresent me," Ballmer wrote, in an exchange forwarded by his legal team.
An email reply from Gordon pleaded with Ballmer to reconsider, telling him he "won't do it again."
But Ballmer stopped Gordon's monthly payments and ceased contact.
Then, last February, a Seattle investment adviser, Cambrea Ezell, let Ballmer know Gordon had shown her a partnership agreement from December 2009 that purported to have the billionaire's signature on it. The document named Gordon as Ballmer's limited partner in the Samaris Group, a company Ballmer was said to be funding with $1 billion to acquire an NBA franchise for Seattle.
Ezell says in a lawsuit, filed against both men last week, that Gordon--claiming to be acting on Ballmer's behalf--signed a $5 million consulting agreement in January 2010 between the Samaris Group and her company, Reign Capital Management. But no money was ever paid.
"For almost the past four years, Gordon has provided ... myriad ... excuses for his and Ballmer's failure to pay under the agreement," the suit states.
Ballmer's lawyer, Andrew Kinstler, insists his client wasn't involved. Ballmer hired a Seattle handwriting expert who concluded the signature on the document was inconsistent with others by the billionaire.
A records search found no company named Samaris Group registered. Kinstler said the document and handwriting report were given to the King County prosecutor's office to investigate for fraud.
Melinda Young, the prosecutor handling the file, confirmed an investigation is ongoing.
In a phone interview, Gordon denied knowing about the Samaris Group, the signed document, or fake Ballmer phone calls. He also initially claimed not to know why Ballmer ended their friendship.
But when their email exchange from July was read to him, Gordon admitted knowing all along why Ballmer parted ways.
It wasn't the first time Gordon changed his story during multiple interviews. The "Hat Man"--nicknamed by former Sonics forward John Johnson because his head was rarely seen uncovered--first met with The Seattle Times on a sunny, mid-60s day in April, wearing a wool skull cap.
He emphasized he was a good person, would never deliberately harm anybody and had merely been too trusting.
Gordon opened up about his Chicago upbringing, where, by age 16, both parents died within six months of one another. He went to live with an aunt. A sister, who he hasn't seen now for 45 years, stayed in Arizona. Gordon had signed a letter of intent to play basketball at DePaul, but needed money and signed with the Kansas City Royals, attending their baseball academy for more than a year.
A pro basketball stint in Israel followed before Gordon moved to Seattle to work construction in 1978 and soon became a Mariners bullpen catcher. He also latched on with the Sonics by 1980, with that growing into a full-time trainer's role.
Gordon says he's seeing a psychologist three times per week and taking medication for depression related to both his struggling teen years and his current financial woes. He admits he gets "carried away" and moved too fast on ventures his NBA buddies and others invested in.
A Section 8 housing deal in Arkansas flopped, he said, because his partner squandered funds. In another deal, he says a Woodinville-based company kept millions he'd raised for them without giving him back money to pay his investors.
Gordon said he wasn't trying to make himself wealthy, feels terrible about what has happened and just wishes he could make things right.
"I just felt there was great money in all of these things and I could help my friends make greater amounts of money based on what was represented to me," he said.
But Gordon also fudged and changed answers about faking Ballmer phone calls, which turned out to be an issue well beyond Seattle.
Thousands of miles away, in Melbourne, Australia,, former Olympian and pro basketball player Wayne Carroll also received "Ballmer" calls. The caller told Carroll all was well with an international sponsorship venture Gordon had supposedly brought Ballmer, Microsoft and The Gates Foundation in on with him.
But the venture never launched, costing Carroll his job, reputation and possibly his family home as costs mount in litigation against him.
"This whole thing pretty much ruined me," Carroll said.
Ballmer says he knew nothing about the deal until The Times contacted him. Jeff Raikes, CEO of The Gates Foundation at the time, also says he never heard of the project.
Carroll was chairman of Knox Basketball, Australia's largest amateur association. He'd been introduced to Gordon via Skype in March 2011 on an earlier project that quickly died.
Gordon was then consulting for the Portland Trail Blazers and was reputed to have influential access to billionaire owner Allen, who he'd met through Ballmer. But Allen fired him in a front-office purge that June. Shortly after, Gordon phoned Carroll pitching a new, bigger project: a Ballmer-backed basketball promotional venture into Australia and China that would raise millions for Knox. Gordon claimed he was Ballmer's representative and any correspondence must run through him.
Knox Basketball began paying Gordon $4,000 per month as a consultant in November 2011 and spent money to implement programs ahead of Ballmer reimbursement.
But the promised Ballmer money from Gordon never arrived.
By April 2012, pressured by Carroll, Gordon sent a $1,000 wire transfer to Australia as a supposed "test" ahead of bigger funding.
A document shows it originated from one of two Wells Fargo accounts belonging to Gordon over which Ballmer had power of attorney--an arrangement made years earlier so Ballmer could direct Gordon's monthly $9,900 "gift" to the accounts.
Carroll saw Ballmer's name alongside Gordon's on the document and assumed they really were business partners. He says he believes Gordon sent the transfer only to make him think that and stall for time.
Carroll says he received about 10 reassuring "Ballmer" calls in the following months.
By March 2013, Knox was $90,000 in debt and irate members held emergency meetings. Carroll and his executive team were fired in mid-June.
Carroll, being sued by Knox for $143,000, says he's too drained to sue Gordon, who he's never met in person.
Gordon says Ballmer simply refused to commit. "On every deal, he's there, he's there and then he doesn't follow through."
Gordon says Ballmer gave him "poetic license" to pretend to be him on calls so he could avoid people and that the $9,900 he received monthly was a stipend for handling such tasks.
Gordon initially denied knowing about private Ballmer calls to Carroll. Later, he admitted having a friend impersonate Ballmer.
"I just did whatever I had to," Gordon said. "Whatever it took to get this through to the end."
Back home, Gordon told prospective investors Ballmer was making him an NBA owner. The story went that Ballmer would implement a $55 million fund that Gordon could use to inflate his net worth so the NBA would approve him for minority ownership in a new Sonics franchise. Gordon says it was a reward for years of handling Ballmer business errands.
Former Sonics center Frank Brickowski says he laughed when Gordon told him about it. He's skeptical of claims by his longtime acquaintance.
Brickowski did loan Gordon $100,000 to invest in the Woodinville company, but only after the company fully guaranteed the money.
"Look, I feel bad for Steve Gordon on one level," Brickowski said. "I don't think he's a bad guy, but he still hurt a lot of people. And there are consequences to pay when you keep doing that."
A retired Seattle scientist,, Thomas Bukowski, who'd worked alongside Gordon's wife, believed the Ballmer fund story. Bukowski says he gave Gordon $70,000 in 2011 for supposed "legal costs" to implement the fund in exchange for $7 million once it became operational.
But the fund never materialized. Bukowski is suing Gordon for the $7 million.
Bukowski also gave Gordon $920,000 to invest with the Woodinville company, which Gordon said would be worth $3 million by April of this year.
Bukowski says he's yet to receive a dime. He's seeking that $3 million in his lawsuit and recently added Ballmer as a co-defendant.
By 2012, Gordon was scouting for the Minnesota Timberwolves and touting his biggest "errand" yet: helping Ballmer and Chris Hansen relocate the Sacramento Kings to Seattle.
Gordon says Ballmer instructed him to befriend Timberwolves owner Glen Taylor, chairman of the NBA's relocation committee. He also says Ballmer had him scout Kings players and prepare a detailed analysis on Phil Jackson and other potential Seattle coaching candidates.
But former Sonics general manager Wally Walker, who worked closely with Hansen, denies Gordon's involvement.
"He's got no input on any of that," Walker said.
Walker has known Gordon since 1978 and says it's possible he worked on his own, or for Ballmer directly, but unlikely Walker would know nothing about it. Ballmer denied assigning Gordon basketball work.
The NBA nixed the Kings relocation on May 15, 2013 and a shattered Gordon, wallowing in debt, checked into the psychiatric hospital June 11.
Walker said he still considers Gordon a friend.
"He's known everybody in sports who's come through this town for years."
But Walker added: "It's tricky, because, with some of it, he's crazy involved with high-level people and athletes. And some of it, he's just embellishing."
The "Hat Man" no longer works in the NBA. He says he's selling property to raise funds to repay creditors and planning to sue the Woodinville company to recover money owed his investors.
So far, there are only the two lawsuits against him. Another was avoided last June when Ballmer gave Gordon $50,000 to pay a Denver creditor.
Interestingly, Gordon's biggest damage began after Ballmer "gifted" him the monthly $9,900. Gordon says he was irked when, in explaining why he'd chosen that amount, Ballmer told him: "Nobody ever needs to earn more than $10,000 a month."
Gordon considered himself Ballmer's "consigliere" and was stung by having a limit placed on his value. With the monthly payouts providing new seed money, Gordon says he set out to show Ballmer, Allen and others he could do bigger deals on his own.
But not, it appears, without using Ballmer's name.
Nowadays, truly on his own, Gordon earns what income he can the only way he's ever excelled: training basketball players. But instead of pros, the limited gigs are with younger players on high-school and public courts.
"It's what I'm good at," he said. "If I'd stuck to that, I probably wouldn't be in the mess that I am today."
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UPDATE: BMO Capital Raises PT on FirstEnergy Following 1Q13 Normalized EPS
In a report published Wednesday, BMO Capital Markets analyst Michael S. Worms reiterated a Market Perform rating on FirstEnergy Corp. (NYSE: FE), and raised the price target from $42.00 to $46.00.
In the report, Worms noted, "FE reported 1Q13 normalized EPS of $0.76 as compared with $0.82 in 1Q12 and consensus of $0.68. The lower year-over-year EPS was driven by lower commodity margins (-$0.14) primarily reflecting lower capacity revenues, lower transmission revenues and depreciation (-$0.04), partly offset by higher distribution deliveries ($0.07) mainly reflecting favorable weather, lower taxes ($0.04), and lower O&M expenses."
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Bank security video shows the man who robbed the TD Bank branch at 293 S. Main St. in Manchester Tuesday at about 5:20 p.m. (MANCHESTER POLICE)
MANCHESTER -- State and city police are seeking a suspect in the early evening robbery of a bank on the city's West Side Tuesday.
Police say a single man walked into the TD Bank branch at 293 S. Main St. and demanded money from a teller.
The suspect was dressed in a gray sweatshirt, blue jeans and white sneakers, He escaped with an undetermined amount of cash.
A state police canine unit responded and was searched in the area of a Walgreens pharmacy a couple of blocks away from the bank.
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Canadian band Godspeed You! Black Emperor won the Polaris Music Prize, awarded at a giant gala sponsored by Toyota. The band celebrated by releasing a scathing statement condemning the whole affair as a "FUCKING INSANE" and "tone-deaf to the current horrifying malaise." It's a pretty remarkable and brave statement.
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Josey Heights Development Partners plan to build a total of 53 homes on the land, which has been known as the Lloyd Street Playfield, and was cleared nearly 40 years ago to make way for a freeway that was never built. Thirty-seven are to be single-family, owner-occupied homes, and 16 are to be owner-occupied condominiums.
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A storm water management program is being developed for the subdivision, with porous pavements and rain gardens for the homes. The subdivision is named in honor of J. Anthony Josey, a local newspaper editor and strong advocate for housing and jobs for Milwaukee's early African American residents. For more information call George Calaway at 226-4761.
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When business meets politics…
… it's never a smooth ride. In the US, big business is not happy with the Obama regime. Katherine Azmeh explains why in her view from the States.
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To be fair, it's the same old tug of war that the two party system always reveals. Democrats offer more social safety nets, but at a much higher price (read taxation – especially on big business and the wealthy). Republican administrations carry a considerably cheaper price tag (again, less tax burden on business and the wealthy), but with their diminished tax revenues, they just can't offer the little guy all the same free perks – like federally funded programs such as health care.
But this time, the tug of war comes with a fat 9.5 percent unemployment rate, in a congressional election year, no less – and that's not good news for democratic congressmen and women around the country.
The administration knows that job growth will come only from the private sector. And to that end, the administration wants to encourage hiring, expansion, and corporate spending. But they must also stay true to the democratic ethic that put their party in the White House – ensuring that they don't "bargain too much away to corporate interests," in the words of the New York Times.
Americans don't seem to want encumbrances to business, like higher corporate taxes, but they voted for universal health care. They cry foul at more bloated legislative oversight, but demand better financial market regulations. The missing concept here seems to be that you can't have it both ways.
The middle ground between stimulating business and enacting the kinds of protective legislation that ensures health care, protects the environment, and the small investor – these turn out to be compromises that voters signed up for when they checked Obama's box on their ballots.
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I want to display some msg before the user exit the application. How to detect application exit?
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ok.. destroyApp works.. how to prevent the application from closing at destroyApp? I want to do something like... they user need to enter a correct password before they can exit the application.
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BRADENTON, Fla. -- Daniel Moskos was 21 years old the last time he was in spring training with the Pirates three years ago.
He had 13 minor league appearances on his resume after being the team's first-round draft pick -- No. 4 overall -- in 2007.
After primarily being a starter in '08 and '09, Moskos became a full-time closer last year.
He was the best finisher in Class AA and helped Altoona win the Eastern League championship, but struggled mightily at Class AAA Indianapolis.
Moskos, a 6-foot-1, 210-pound left-hander, will turn 25 late next month, but he has yet to sniff the majors.
He is a long shot to make the opening day roster and likely is ticketed for a return trip to Indianapolis, where he went 0-5 last year with a 10.38 earned run average before being sent back to Class AA.
Although Moskos would like to earn a regular gig in the majors, he said Friday he is not upset with the way his career has unfolded.
"I'm not frustrated at all," he said. "I'm here participating and part of a big league camp, and competing for a roster spot. I don't think you can be frustrated with that."
Moskos is one of four left-handers competing for a spot in the Pirates bullpen, joining Justin Thomas, Joe Beimel and Scott Olsen, who could end up a starter.
Moskos retired the side in order in the ninth inning Friday in a 7-4 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies at McKechnie Field.
He has not surrendered a run or hit in three innings this spring and has recorded one save.
"He's definitely in the mix," pitching coach Ray Searage said. "We're going to get him out there as much as possible.
"His pitching and what he does out there on the field is going to dictate where he's going to be this year."
Moskos, primarily a closer in college at Clemson, is 21-23 with a 4.53 ERA in 125 minor league games. He has made 45 starts and has 23 saves.
"I'm just trying to keep getting better," Moskos said. "I'm just trying to learn as much as I can, and try to be as good as I can. I don't really focus on getting to the majors, but that certainly is the goal."
Searage believes Moskos has to do a better job of pitching within himself when he's on the mound.
"He's a hyper, young kid," Searage said. "You need to use that energy to your advantage as opposed to it hampering you.
"He'll get excited at times, especially when he gets ahead in the count, and he'll try to do more with the pitch instead of just executing properly."
Moskos, who made a career-high 56 appearances last year between Class AA and Class AAA, converted 21 of his 22 save chances while working out of the Curve bullpen.
But he recorded just one save at Indianapolis and allowed 26 hits and 20 runs in 171/3 innings before being shipped back to Altoona in mid-August.
"There's a bunch of things that happened [at Indianapolis]," Moskos said. "Obviously, when you jump up a level, you're facing better competition. My mechanics got a little bit out of whack, and I did let my emotions get the best of me.
"Then I tried to do too much and tried to be someone that I wasn't. But I learned from it. I'm not going to let that happen again. It was a one-time thing, and I'm better for it."
Reliever Fernando Nieve allowed five hits and four earned runs in 11/3 innings Friday, as the Philadelphia Phillies rallied for a 7-4 victory.
The Pirates had taken a 4-3 lead in the sixth as Neil Walker scored on Garrett Jones' groundout and Andy Marte's second RBI, a double.
But the Phillies rallied for three runs in the seventh and added an insurance run in the eighth.
Nieve, who took the loss, has a 27.00 ERA in two spring training appearances.
Relief pitcher Evan Meek (mild tightness in calf) completed his live batting practice and pitcher's fielding practice session at Pirate City. The next step in his return is to throw an inning in a game, tentatively set for Monday at home against Tampa Bay. ... Shortstop Ronny Cedeno was scratched from the lineup Friday after suffering a bruise to the middle finger on his right hand Thursday. He is day to day. ... Beimel (tightness in left arm) went through his throwing program Friday with no complaints. He is scheduled to go through his throwing program again today, but no timetable has been set for his return.
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You are Not a Storyteller – Stefan Sagmeister @ FITC
It appears all the 'storytellers' showed up in the comments on the following video at Vimeo. Ya know, there are times when being part of the design or "creative" industry makes me cringe. And it's usually when I'm reading comments on something online. Don't read the comments. Watch this video and decide—for yourself—if you agree or disagree with Stefan. Allow that feeling to drive a single creative thought in your mind and go make something. Skip the public comment debate on whether you think someone is 'right' or not. Get over yourself.
About Stefan Sagmeister: formed the New York based Sagmeister Inc. in 1993 and has since designed for clients as diverse as the Rolling Stones, HBO and the Guggenheim Museum. Having been nominated eight times, he finally won two Grammy Awards for the Talking Heads and Brian Eno & David Byrne package designs. He has also earned practically every important international design award.
In 2008 Stefan authored a comprehensive book titled "Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far", published by Abrams. Solo shows of Sagmeister Inc's work have been mounted in Paris, Zurich, Vienna, Prague, Cologne, Berlin, New York, Miami, Los Angeles, Chicago, Toronto, Tokyo, Osaka, Seoul and Miami.
Stefan teaches in the graduate department of the School of Visual Art in New York and lectures extensively on all continents. In 2012 young designer Jessica Walsh became a partner and the company was renamed into Sagmeister & Walsh. A native of Austria, he received his MFA from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and, as a Fulbright Scholar, a master's degree from Pratt Institute in New York. After his studies he worked as a Creative Director for Leo Burnett in Hong Kong and for M&Co. in New York.
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In surf photography, it's typically all about the location – a sun setting through the waves or the perfect green room – but sometimes there's just someone who sees things differently. In the mid-90s Dustin Humphrey made a name for himself with his wholly unique vision for surf photography. One of his most memorable projects, the 'Dopamine' series reveals dramatically detailed scenes just below the water's surface: shanty towns, naked girls riding motorcycles, a Beatnik graveyard, an entire bedroom floating upside down, all with surfers riding waves above. His photographic works turned the eyes of surfers across the world to some of the remotest and most challenging surf spots on the planet.
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Got math? Got stats? Think you're golden? Think again.
One of the amazing qualities of paid search is its addictiveness. Once in the profession, people tend to stick around. Even CEOs of good-sized companies have been known to cling to the campaigns they initially set up, ceding the work to specialists only after colleagues and family members manage to wrest the mouse out of their hands.
We have a remarkable employee retention rate at our agency. While that's probably due to the winning charm of the executive team, to say nothing of the luxurious pewter toilet paper holders down the hall, something else might be at work: paid search marketing is a stimulating, ever-changing puzzle. Word has it Google is considering re-releasing AdWords as an iPhone app simulation -- no advertising account required. It vibrates when your Quality Score hits 10.
Rapid feedback to marketing experiments is certainly addictive, but it's not all you get in paid search. And indeed, you won't get it unless you handle a range of longer-term strategic elements with aplomb.
So, It's About Math? Duh
Third-party accounts of the application of science to various professions have a curious quality about them. Have you noticed how uncritical they are about what science is? "Moneyball," "Super Crunchers," "Blink"...the narrative basically says we replace old superstitions by accepting the insights of more scientific people that come along to improve a profession. And these people are essentially mathematicians or statisticians of one form or another.
Got math? Got stats? You're golden.
In a way, this is true. But it only scratches the surface. It's a gee-whiz, numbers-are-important type of analysis brought to you by some compelling storytellers.
In our field, the result can be oversimplification, to say nothing of complacency. Got a "numbers person" on your team? You'll be alright.
The profession is broken down into science versus non-science, math versus non-math. Don't smell like math? You must be non-math. But wait! Things really aren't that binary.
Reading the section of Ian Ayres' "Super Crunchers" that actually dealt with paid search was a case in point. He briefly referred to a tiny sliver of the math we've all been crunching for years. He misapplied it and gave a weak example: one relating to the ad copy CTR (define) for his own book.
Make no mistake: we're mired in a milieu where statistical feedback comes at you fast and furious. The complexity is astounding. But that's true of anything that involves many variables, a competitive marketplace, and the use of your brain.
Wearing Multiple Hats
And what about that brain? Who, ultimately, can be good at paid search?
The answer is surprisingly complex.
All of the following can make paid search work better:
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Who might be the worst at paid search?
Yes, it's often -- or even usually -- about math. About reaching optimal outcomes, often by optimizing many small details to produce the most efficient spend and higher total profit. But we haven't gotten anywhere by just stating as much. How do we act on that, find our unique contribution to the project, work with others, and build our organizations and technology supports appropriately?
You may be asking: is all of this overkill? How big is paid search anyway, that we should be considering the nature of cognition in connection with it?
First, AdWords. Tomorrow, the Advertising World?
It's not tough to answer. Today, writers like Ian Ayres, Michael Lewis, Malcolm Gladwell, and their more obscure scientific counterparts, are considering how the nature of cognition and analysts' use of large data sets affect every field from baseball to viniculture to driver safety to online dating. As the line blurs between the $50 billion spent annually on digital advertising to the much larger global advertising pie, fortunes will be won and lost in the process.
I have much more to say about the cognitive opportunities and traps that await us in the paid search game. Join me on December 9, 2009 at SES Chicago, for a session called Paid Search Brain Candy."
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Goodman is founder and President of Toronto-based Page Zero Media, a full-service marketing agency founded in 2000. Page Zero focuses on paid search campaigns as well as a variety of custom digital marketing programs. Clients include Direct Energy, Canon, MIT, BLR, and a host of others. He is also co-founder of Traffick.com, an award-winning industry commentary site; author of Winning Results with Google AdWords (McGraw-Hill, 2nd ed., 2008); and frequently quoted in the business press. In recent years he has acted as program chair for the SES Toronto conference and all told, has spoken or moderated at countless SES events since 2002. His spare time eccentricities include rollerblading without kneepads and naming his Japanese maples. Also in his spare time, he co-founded HomeStars, a consumer review site with aspirations to become "the TripAdvisor for home improvement." He lives in Toronto with his wife Carolyn.
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You can now filter search results with text. Example: "person: john" will search only person pages for "john".
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Posted on March 19, 2012
"When we moved into our neighborhood two and a half years ago, it was (and is) still very much in the midst of recovery from Hurricane Katrina. We were immediately struck by the lack of community space...somewhere for kids and neighbors to gather, play and build relationships. Our local 'playground' – which consisted of a broken metal slide and two swing-sets with no swings – had been identified by the city government as one that needed to be rebuilt, but there was no information about how or when that was going to happen.
That's when KaBOOM! happened. I sent off a quick email to a staff member there, Shira, and within 30 minutes we were on the phone talking about our new playground. That was late September; our playground was built on December 18th. Our playground, and Build Day, accomplished everything we thought it might – kids and adults are both meeting their neighbors and building relationships – it's truly incredible.
When we were chosen to receive a new Imagination Playground, a set of large blue foam blocks like life-size tinker toys, I knew we were truly blessed. We take these blocks out into the community as often as we can – to schools who are still without playgrounds, to community events and our monthly movie nights. Recently I discovered that by creating a loose perimeter for the blocks kids are playing even more WITH each other, instead of just grabbing a few blocks and playing by themselves. I am humbled and so thankful for everything we've received from KaBOOM!."
Posted on March 19, 2012
"It was my first week in Boston - orientation week for new students at Boston University. As part of our schedules for the week I signed up for a child-focused service project and couldn't help but gulp when I saw our assignment – build a new playground – in one day.
Needless to say, I was incredulous. I had NO idea how to build a playground, I wasn't strong enough to lift anything very heavy, it was going to be an incredibly hot day, and how could we possibly build an entire playground in just one day?
But, thanks to KaBOOM!, it was exactly the opposite of what I had been afraid of. I was amazed at the diversity of people, so many of them as doubtful as I was, who came together to work as a unified force.
We came together as one, not because we knew anything about playgrounds, mulch, or mixing concrete, but because we all had the same goal – to build a great new place to play. We struggled together, worked as a team, and in just 6 hours time we watched as the kids ran out to see their new, shiny, beautiful playground. What an amazing day!"
– Genevieve Fasano, Boston, MA
KaBOOM! helps volunteers like Genevieve discover the power of community.
Play it forward to help more volunteers discover the power of teamwork.
Posted on March 19, 2012
"I could build a playground every day! When you build a KaBOOM! playground, you feel like part of the community, you meet interesting people and you all come together for a great cause.
At my last build, I had the opportunity to work with volunteers from a senior center. They were so excited to be there, and sometimes it's just about feeling needed. Even though they were helping out the kids, KaBOOM! was really helping them feel needed again.
The positive impact was twofold and multigenerational, changing the lives of the volunteers and the children who would soon be playing on the playground they built."
– Gina Lazo, Coral Gables, FL
Gina has built 2 playgrounds with KaBOOM!, so far, and knows how important it is to get kids outside playing and away from computers and video games.
Play it forward with a donation today so we can keep engaging great community volunteers like Gina.
Posted on March 19, 2012
On May 20th, KaBOOM!, Meredith Nicholson Indiana Public School 96, Clarian Health and IU Health built a great new place to play in Indianapolis. In the first week the kids were able to use the playground there were zero discipline issues- which was unheard of!
The children are incredibly active. They love the playground and are playing non-stop. Some local high school students came to help from different schools. One of the students had gone through IPS 96 and he kept talking about how much he wished he had that playground when he was younger. The high schoolers feel great ownership over the project, and are excited to bring their younger siblings to the park. In addition, people that were helping the school for the first time at the build are looking to continue to volunteer at IPS 96.
Play it forward with a donation today so we can keep making a difference in communities like Indianapolis.
Posted on February 27, 2012
KaBOOM! National Partner JetBlue is looking for your help to decide where they should build one of their next KaBOOM! playgrounds! The Vote Where We Play Sweepstakes offers Facebook fans the ability to help pick the next city for a playground as well as a chance to win a weekend getaway to any JetBlue travel destination.
JetBlue is celebrating our partnership with KaBOOM!, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to saving play, that envisions a great place to play within walking distance of every child in America. Together, JetBlue and KaBOOM! have moved 16 tractor trailers full of mulch and brought together 2,830 volunteers to build 11 playgrounds, which serve 5,680 children every year.
In 2012 we look forward to building five more KaBOOM! playgrounds in JetBlue cities! We are jetting off to build playgrounds Long Beach, CA in February, San Juan, PR in March, Boston, MA in June and New York, NY in September; and we want YOU to vote on the lucky city that will receive our 15th playground!
You can learn more about the sweepstakes and vote here!
UPDATE: The voting period has ended, and we would like to extend our heartfelt congratulations to residents of the San Francisco Bay Area! You'll be getting a new playground in August 2012!
Posted on February 02, 2012
You may remember our Scary Playgrounds: Let's Find 'Em and Fix 'Em contest last Halloween, when we asked for photos of playgrounds that were in desperate need of repair. Our grand prize winner, Dan Watson of Fredonia, Ariz. recently wrote to let us know what they're doing with the $1,000 VISA Gift Card they received:
"We are still adding equipment to the park as we remodel our larger park.
The timing turned out really well, our local LDS ward was looking for a service project, so they helped paint the jungle gym, remove weeds from the basketball court, paint the court's stripes and the basketball standards. We purchased curbing and engineered wood chips from local sources to make the playground safer. We replaced the backboards and rims. We moved a climber from our other park and are in the process of bringing over a slide and a 4-seat bouncer. We are rehabilitating the pieces now before we reinstall them. That will double the amount of equipment in the park.
We are also planning to add benches and tables and there is a movement to add a sand volleyball court. We are looking into the design and costs now. The only thing left that we really want to do is replace the jungle gym with a new small play structure.
We are still raising funds for our large park community build so it's going have to wait for a while. But we are excited about breathing new life into this park and we again want to say thank you for your assistance.
We are proud to say it's not the scariest park anymore."
Dan Watson
Town of Fredonia
Posted on January 26, 2012
Twenty-five hundred citizens from around the world have descended on the snowy ski resort of Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum's annual meeting. This year's theme is The Great Transformation: Shaping New Models. I like that it is about 'shaping' new models and not necessarily 'creating' them.
The diversity of people and confluence of ideologies is prevalent and core to the lively and smart discussions. Nowhere is the diversity more evident than in the outlook of the world's future. From my conversations thus far I have been struck by the conflict between those who are incredibly optimistic and carry a high level of confidence that new and better solutions are being developed through impactful innovators vs. those who are much more pessimistic about the future and the increasing number and power of the prolonged world crises we are experiencing.
Those bordering on pessimism believe that the new reality is here to stay. I am much more aligned to the optimists. And frankly, I have been struck by the optimism that is a common outlook of most of the social entrepreneurs. It seems rationale that a social entrepreneur exists because he/she is focused on creating solutions to our world's problems. We believe that our society's biggest challenges are solvable, and that, as Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Muhammad Yunus said, "the distance between the impossible and possible is shrinking."
Posted on January 24, 2012
George Mohacsi is the President and CEO of Foresters, a life insurance provider committed to the well-being of families. Foresters and KaBOOM! began their partnership in 2006 when the organizations built four playgrounds across the U.S.
Since then, the partnership has grown tremendously - Foresters has committed more than $7 million to KaBOOM!, with nearly 100 playgrounds being built across the U.S. and Canada by 2013. Foresters has also become a KaBOOM! National Partner and a founding member of the KaBOOM! Leadership Circle—a group of organizations providing long-term guidance and support to KaBOOM!.
Mohacsi and KaBOOM! Founder and CEO Darell Hammond sat down to talk about Foresters commitment to KaBOOM! and why Foresters believes in creating opportunities for families to spend quality time together. Below is a snippet from the interview. The full version can be read here.
Posted on January 05, 2012
The article "Societal Values and Policies May Curtail Preschool Children's Physical Activity in Child Care Centers," and associated study published yesterday by the American Academy of Pediatrics, shows what we at KaBOOM! have seen happening increasingly over the years: the risk of lawsuits and increased academic competitiveness is harming our children.
In our aggressively litigious culture, we have become so obsessed with controlling risk that children are missing out on opportunities to grow and learn. There is a difference between an injury and an accident. An injury happens when equipment is in disrepair. An accident is just a natural part of growing up. Instead of accepting that a few bumps, bruises and even stitches are an inevitable part of childhood – and can actually be a healthy learning experience – we have somehow come to believe that accidents of any kind should be avoided at all costs.
Play is also under attack in our nation's schools. Shrinking recess and increased homework leave little time for play. And increasingly, cities are building new schools without playgrounds. Despite countless studies proving that play is integral to children's learning and health, most kids aren't getting enough space and time to play during the school day.
The intentions are good. We all want our kids to be safe and to have all of the opportunities available to them. Unfortunately, common sense is victim to these pressures. The key now is to take the results of this and other studies and pivot the conversation away from blame and toward a solution.
Posted on December 29, 2011
As we look back on the KaBOOM! 15th birthday year, it is hard not to feel pride in all that we – the broader KaBOOM! community – have accomplished toward realizing our vision of a great place to play within walking distance of every child in America.
Together we have built 2,072 playgrounds empowering communities across North America to come together for the greater good. We have taken all of our knowledge and made it available – for free – so people can self-organize and build playgrounds at a much faster pace than we can alone, while also building local skills, capacity and social capitol.
We have mapped 89,145 playgrounds in our effort to create a nationwide Map of Play, which will in turn illuminate Play Deserts, allowing us to use our resources even more strategically to serve those communities most in need. To that end, we created a mobile app, Playgrounds!, to make it easier for you to add to our Map of Play and find great places to play in your neighborhood.


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We're in the second day of the knock-out stages in the Round of 16, with the Dutch taking on hated Mexico at 9 a.m. PST on ESPN, with Costa Rica taking on Greece in the afternoon game, at 1 p.m....
The Group stage of the World Cup was a whirlwind of a couple of weeks. Hard to believe a little over 2 weeks ago the World Cup was just starting and all 32 teams had no idea how things would go...
Tim Cahill scores, gets suspended from last group game, and Australia is out of the World Cup.
Recap of day 2 and preview of day 3 at the World Cup
The World Cup has kicked off in style with the referees and the Netherlands dominating the headlines...
This match-up of the two finalist from the last World Cup could be one of the best matches of the group stages.
The Dutch won an exceedingly dull match over Ghana thanks a goal from Robin van Persie.
In an interview for the Blizzard, Robin van Persie has spoken at length about his career, his decision to join Manchester United, and his relationship with his soon-to-be club manager.
Netherlands (and possibly soon to be Manchester United) captain Robin van Persie has been saying complimentary things about Netherlands (and definitely soon to be Manchester United) manager Louis...
Silly season comes early at United, as reports from Italy emerge of a baffling swap deal.
After the last few games, it's time we take a look at something more fun: The goal celebration.
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I recieved an email today , a sweet email letting me know that my image was used as the title cover of a publication . I was so thrilled and glad to see the title cover adorned with one of my fairy illustrations. the fairy sweet pea fairies have been one of my popular image and i love her! here is the preview of the file followed by the book cover published.
And here is the book cover of a story about a young girl who died of cancer in 2010 … I am so glad that the writer thinks that the pretty fairy connected so nicely for the cause of raising funds for the disease through this book ..
And now something new that i created! Easter is here! and i did make some images for easter last week and now posted them to the store …. you can download a freebie from this set as well!
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