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Many people complain about the various forces keeping them from success. But it's becoming more and more clear that the things that hold us back from success are not external factors but our own fears, insecurities, and concerns.
As Pogo the Possum said, "We have met the enemy and he is us."
If you spend a lot of time reading the new gurus of prosperity and productivity you'll be confronted with a lot of advice that tells you success will come when you decide to "Be The Best," "Be Sensational" or "Be Unique."
I'm here to tell you you've been lied to. You don't have to be the best to achieve success. Fact is, the best of the best rarely make it to the top. They're too concerned about being great to be good.
As Sting sang, "To search for perfection is all very well, but to look for heaven is to live here in hell." Truth is, you don't have to be the best at what you do, you have to be the best at showing your prospects how you will make their lives better.
So what are you waiting for? Get up, get out, and show the world what you can do. And here's the bonus: While you're building your path to success, you're also improving the skills you need to be successful.
As detrimental to success as trying to be the best is, it's not the only obstacle in your path. The other myth that holds you back is the myth of uniqueness. That is, the never-ending search for a distinctive and wholly individual identity.
Everywhere you turn, people say that success requires you to be unique. "No two snowflakes are alike. No two fingerprints are similar. Be unique." They say it with the back of the hand attitude that makes it sound simple and easy. But do you know what an exacting term uniqueness is? The dictionary defines the word as "being the only one." So unless you place a modifier such as fairly in front of unique, the word is absolute with no room for variety or compromise. You can't be a little unique any more than you can be a little excellent, a little perfect or a little pregnant. Unique is unconditional. You either are or you ain't.
Think about how few successful people actually pass the strict dictionary definition of unique. We all balance on the shoulders of giants and even the most successful among us built their success on what came before.
Let me be as clear as I can — success does not require uniqueness, certainly not in the fingerprint or snowflake category. Instead, it requires that your audience can see and understand your authentic difference.
History is riddled with stories of unique characters who were ignored, shunned, and denied until some act of fate finally broke their ideas into the mainstream. Joan of Arc was burned at the stake. A penniless Van Gogh committed suicide. Jimi Hendrix died of a drug overdose. Even Steve Jobs, the businessman of the century, was fired by Apple before he made his stunning comeback. The evidence is clear that forging a unique and individual path is not the way to success or happiness.
The need to be unique is a presumptuous, egotistical myth. But it is not a key to success. Instead, create an authentic identity that tells the world NOT why you're different but who you are. Position yourself through the eyes of your potential audience and watch how they relate to you. If your tribe feels that who you are makes them better, thinner, smarter, richer, happier or whatever, they'll pay – and pay big – to be around you. Who's accomplished that? Lots of people you know, including Oprah Winfrey and Ellen DeGeneres. You feel good watching them because they help you feel good about yourself.
In the end success comes down to Oscar Wilde's great quote, "Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken."
Published on November 3rd, 2014
New mother Heidi Dobbs was busy teaching her pre-school children to read when she had a brainstorm — what's the point of teaching kids the ABCs if it doesn't actually help them read? Wouldn't it be better to teach children the letters' sounds instead? That way her kids could sing the sounds together and automatically read the word.
Example? Joey knows all his ABCs. Courtney doesn't know her ABCs – but she knows her lettersounds. Both kids start kindergarten. The teacher asks Joey to read the word "ant." He recites the letters "A…N…T." The teacher asks Courtney to read the same word, and she says "aaaaa… nnnnn… ttttt — ant!"
Heidi developed her program and sent both her children and her nieces and nephews off to school already knowing how to read simple words and sentences.
Their teachers' reactions?
Some of their teachers were thrilled. Some were nonplused. But most were surprised that kids who couldn't identify their ABCs could actually read while the other students who knew the ABCs could not.
Despite this, none of the teachers were interested in using this system in their classrooms. After all, the ABCs and reading had been taught the same way for years. The teachers pointed out that the system wasn't proven. It wasn't accredited. And its inventor didn't have "Dr." before her name or a string of impressive initials after it. The fact that Heidi's kids and her sister's kids were the best readers in their classes didn't seem to matter.
So Heidi did what so many red-blooded American inventors have done before her. She developed her system herself and offered it to exactly the people who would be most interested – the engaged and involved parents of preschool-aged children. Except instead of having to create books and games and work with printers and pay for inventory and rent storage space and pay for advertising and shipping, Heidi used Internet technology and created an app called Babyfonics Genius.
Five days after uploading her reading app to the Apple App Store, Babyfonics Genius was made available to the public and parents everywhere were given access to a whole new way of teaching their children to read.
There's no publishing company, no middleman, no distributor, and no wholesaler. In other words, there's no one to get between Heidi and the kids she wants to teach. Just a great new idea that's helping parents everywhere.
FOX Business anchor Melissa Francis, herself a mother of small children, interviewed Heidi on her show Money with Melissa Francis, and parents who tuned in were immediately able to pull their phones out of their pockets and download Babyfonics Genius. But of course it didn't stop there. Heidi repurposed the footage on YouTube and on her various social media feeds (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.) and gave even more parents the opportunity to learn about her innovation.
Soon more and more new students will show up at their schools knowing how to read but not knowing the names of the letters they're reading and more and more teachers will be puzzled. At a parent-teacher night or at a PTA meeting maybe, they'll ask a parent how come their child can already read and more folks will know about Heidi's disruptive breakthrough. But none of it will have gone through the traditional channels.
But right now Babyfonics Genius is a disruptive little idea waiting to be discovered. Don't say I didn't warn you. And don't hesitate to download it if you have little ones at home.
Published on October 26th, 2014
The two guys sitting next to me on the plane disrupted my peace and quiet by chattering away like old friends. I couldn't open up my laptop until we "reached a comfortable cruising altitude of 10,000 feet" so I was stuck listening to them even though I really didn't want to.
Turns out the first guy was creating new video technology application and the second guy had been in the video rental and installation business for 30 years so they had a lot to talk about. Basically their conversational ping-pong went something like this:
Guy One: "We're going to readjust the framitz on the whosie-whatser which will double our resolution. That will allow the gesungie to process twice as much data in half the time."
Guy Two: "That'll never work. I used to own 200 framiwitzers. We tried it every different way but it was a complete waste of time."
Guy One: "Sure but that was because your framiwitzers were analog. Now that they're digital we can push the compression of the schmutzer until they re-sync."
Guy Two: "No way. Schmutzers are specifically designed to slow down the render rate. We tried to increase the compression but it never worked."
Mercifully that was about the moment that I heard the little bell ding over the PA and was able to open my laptop and crank up some Led Zeppelin.
When I disrupted the music and pulled my headphones off a few hours later to go the bathroom the two of them were still at it. Guy One was explaining some new technological advancement he was testing and Guy Two was insisting that it he'd already tried it and that it would never work.
It finally dawned on me that Guy One was not from the video industry. Unlike his more experienced seatmate, he came to the business with fresh views and fresh ideas. He was bright-eyed and bushytailed and full of excitement about all the possibilities. On the other hand, Guy Two was an industry lifer who had seen and heard it all. He knew everything there was to know about each idea and knew for certain that none of it would ever work.
Mark Zuckerberg, the guy who created Facebook and disrupted social media forever, did not come from the college yearbook business or the communication business. Elon Musk, the brains behind Tesla, did not come from the auto industry. Pierre Omidyar, Ebay's originator, did not come from the auction business.
Need more? Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia, the designers of Airbnb, the online room rental service that as of spring 2014 booked more room nights than Hilton Hotels, had 10 million guests and 550,000 properties listed worldwide and a $10B valuation —making it worth more than industry players Wyndham and Hyatt, did not come from the hotel business. They were just two guys who wanted to rent out their San Francisco loft in order to help cover their rent.
Do you notice a pattern here?
Thanks to the ubiquitousness of the Internet and digital technology, we are seeing businesses disrupted where we never thought possible. Remember classified ads? CraigsList put an end to them. CDs and DVD? iTunes and Netflix drove them into the ground. Maps? MapQuest. Circuit City? Amazon. Pay phones? Cell phones.
The trend that shows no sign of abating is not just the elimination of legacy business models but that the slashing will continue to be done by people who come from outside the industries that they disrupt. Technology is ubiquitous, good ideas can come from anywhere, and those outside the industry don't know what can't be done because they've never done it before.
Back to my flight and the argument between Guy One and Guy Two? It's still going on. Guy Two is disrupted toast. He just doesn't know it yet.
Published on October 20th, 2014
The more I write about how critical it is to discover and express both your authentic self and your customers' deepest desires in your brand, the more questions I get. Many are about how one can discover the true self they should be promoting, or how to know exactly what their customers want. Clearly answers to both these questions require a lot more time than an email answer or even blog post offers. But the other frequent request is for a clear example of a brand that is congruent with both its own authentic self and the desires of its clients.
Sure there's a pat list of expected answers including names such as Apple, Porsche, BMW, Panerai, Ralph Lauren, Harley-Davidson, Prius, Las Vegas, and Hermes.
Before I explain, let me issue a prophylactic disclaimer. I'm neither condoning nor condemning O'Reilly's politics in this blog. For the sake of illustrating the concept of true brand value I've gone out of my way to be as agnostic as possible. The point here is not the what, but the how.
Almost a year ago I was a guest on The O'Reilly Factor, coincidentally invited along with my friend and tech/social media genius Peter Shankman, as one of two marketing experts O'Reilly wanted to interview about ESPN's decision not to run a Christmas-themed television commercial for a Catholic children's hospital.
It was O'Reilly's contention that ESPN's refusal to run the spot was a clear example of what he called "America's War on Christmas." Click HERE to watch the interview.
If O'Reilly had actually permitted me to explain why ESPN had disallowed the commercial I would have told him about these three factors:
The funny thing is that O'Reilly, one of the highest paid personalities on television, knows these things better than I do. But explaining them doesn't promote his brand nor engage his audience.
Bill has strategically built an aspirational brand by living the life his viewers wish they could live. Bill sells his brand to disaffected, formerly middle-class general market consumers who are angry that the life they lived is being eroded by rampant technology, increased minority rights, painful economic realities, and encroaching old age. And so O'Reilly brilliantly fabricates crises such as The War on Christmas to empathize with his audience while he first enrages and then placates them by manhandling his guests. Quite simply, O'Reilly beats up his mostly affluent, well dressed, educated, and/or minority guests because his audience wants to but can't.
Simply remove O'Reilly's signature rancor, and there's a lot to learn and emulate from his brand, regardless of what you think of his politics, his practices or his policies.
Published on October 12th, 2014
I travel almost every week, but in fact I'm not traveling this week and it's kind of shocking. Last week I was in New York for client meetings and to do a Fox Business correspondent gig in the studio instead of remotely. The week before I was in Massachusetts because my daughter is entering her third year of college. Next week I'm in Las Vegas speaking at a brand management camp. But this week I'm in Miami the whole week.
Figuring out how to hack my travel with tips and techniques has become more than a hobby, it's almost an obsession. In our wedding vows I added to the traditional "better or worse, sickness or health, richer or poorer, only carry-on luggage." I didn't really—but I threatened to.
I was on a flight once and the woman in front of me kept slamming herself against the seat to get it to go back. The reason the seat wouldn't go back is because my knees were there. I didn't have any legroom. She finally called the flight attendant and said, "My seat won't go back." And I said, "The reason your seat won't go back is because my legs are there." The flight attendant said to me, "Sir, you have to move so she can put her seat back." And I said, "OK, where would you like me to put my legs? We can consider the overhead compartment. Other than that I don't really know where they're going to go." I promptly bought a knee defender. That was years ago, but I've never had the nerve to use it. I take it only for emotional support.
If you lean forward and say, "Look I'm almost 6'5". Would you mind not leaning back quite so far?" Most people are pretty nice about it. I'll offer to buy them a drink. But sometimes—especially on European airlines—when the people lean back, I could do dental work on them. I don't put my seat back more than just a little inch, just to take the angle off, unless I turn around and there's a sleeping child curled up in the seat, because I know how aggravating that can be.
I only wear three colors: gray, blue, and black. That way everything I take matches everything else. I always take knit silk ties and pocket squares with me, too. If you change your ties and the tone of your pocket square, it looks like you're wearing a different outfit every day. That's all anyone notices if you're well dressed anyways.
I play the harmonica, so I also take a few harmonicas when I travel. I have found people to play with on the subways of Paris, on the streets on London, and in small towns in Provence. It always gets me invited to places and dinners. It's great. Now if I played the cello, admittedly, it wouldn't be quite as easy. But with the harmonica it's quite easy.
My travel hero is Jack Reacher, a fictional detective in a series of 18 books by author Lee Child. He travels with just an ATM card and a folding toothbrush. When his clothes get dirty he throws them away and he buys new ones. I dig his travel routine. That's my dream. But I would add a harmonica.
I have a collapsible down jacket that folds up into its own pocket. It's essentially—when you smash it all down—the size of two pairs of socks. I take that no matter where I go because even if you're going somewhere warm the airport is going to be freezing or the plane is going to be freezing. Even though I insist on traveling as light as possible, I even carry a down jacket if I'm going to the Caribbean or to Ibiza. It's still jammed into my bag.
I always take button-down shirts because you can always wear them with a suit or you can wear them un-tucked with shorts. You can't really do that with any other kind of shirt.
I am fastidious about packing. I use those little packing cubes and I organize everything. They love me at TSA when I get the random open bag inspection. They open it up and say, "Oh my god. I wish everybody packed like this." Everything's in a little pouch. Everything's all nice and folded—all my cords and my cables. I'm a little psycho, as I said. But I'm OK with that! I accept myself for who I am. Travel is just so easy for me because I know exactly what I'm going to take at all times.
One of the things we're responsible for is marketing Miami tourism. So all my suits have these little palm tree pins on them—every single one—so I'm never out of uniform. But I've noticed that TSA guys or hotel clerks, they always say, "Oh, I like your pin!" At which point I reach into my lapel, unhook it and give it to them. They love them. And I always get an upgrade. With hotels I get a nicer room or with rental cars I get a nicer car. Who knows what—you get something.
I really like Nooly, which is a weather app. It's really cool because it tells you the weather in 5-minute increments. If I'm going for a run, for example, I don't care what the weather is for the next eight hours. I care what the weather is now for the next 45 minutes. And it tells you. WeatherBug has a really cool feature called Spark that tells you if there's lightning anywhere nearby.
The app that I love more than any other app—I use it for travel, but it can be used for everything else—is Evernote combined with a system that I've learned online called thesecretweapon.org, a series of 11 videos that show how to combine David Allen's "Getting Things Done" (GTD) with Evernote as a master "to do" list to manage your inbox and your assignments and your travel and everything else. It is phenomenal. It runs my whole life. It's a real pain in the neck at first but if you fight your way through it and get it set up, it becomes second nature. Like my email box, I have no emails in my email box. As I open one I transfer it to Evernote and tag it.
My dad passed away a few years ago and I took his briefcase and had it refurbished. I only use that bag and my suitcase. That's nice, that I always have his bag with me. It's a Tumi leather briefcase of some sort. It's old. Now they have their own custom zippers and everything. It doesn't even have those. But I sent it back to Tumi and they redid it. In fact the woman called me and said, "You want to spend $300 to redo this bag? You can probably get a new one for a little more." I said, "Nope, that's the one I want." So they fixed it up. They put it on a new handle and some new straps and cleaned it up and it's great.
I take a couple merino wool T-shirts because, believe it or not, they do not itch. They work in all temperatures and they don't stink, so you can wear them more than once. We all like to wear cotton T-shirts but when you sweat in them they get heavy and wet—especially when you run—and you can't dry them after washing, so you've got to find a replacement. Merino wool is unbelievable. At first I was completely skeptical. First of all, I live in Miami—I'm not from a wool-wearing state. I thought it would be itchy and uncomfortable and it's not at all. You can wash it in the sink and it dries quickly.
I always take two pairs of ExOfficio travel underwear and I wash them in the sink every night. They don't absorb moisture because they're made of synthetic materials. But here's the trick: You wring them out as best as you can by hand, then you take a big bath towel and lay it out on the floor—or on the bed if you're a germophobe—and then you lay the clothes on them and roll it up like a burrito. It's a layer of clothing, a layer of towel, a layer of clothing, a layer of towel. Then you lay this big roll on the ground and you jump on it, which transfers a lot of the water that's left from the fabric into the towel. Then you unroll it and you hang the stuff up. It works. My wife laughs at me. My friends laugh at me. You laugh at me. It's ok. I get it. It's stupid. Here you have a guy who runs a company who's traveling around washing his underwear in the sink and then jumping on it. I get it. It's funny. But you know what? I don't care because I'm obsessed and it works.
Published on October 5th, 2014
I need three hundred thousand dollars. Come to think of it, maybe I need half a million dollars. I'm not really sure. I just know I have to own Singer Vehicle Design's restored, reimagined, and reborn Porsche 911 and that's about what they cost.
The price is variable because the cars are completely custom. And the $350 – $500,000 is the cost AFTER I deliver a pre-owned cherry 1990 – 1994 air-cooled Porsche model 964 to their California facility for the re-creation. I'll also need 50 or 60 grand to build a climate-controlled garage at home to store my gorgeous new/old 911. And I'll need a little more to pay for the trips back and forth to California to see my car being constructed and the shipping charges to get it home safe and sound. Of course I'd like to drive it cross-country but I can't imagine putting all those miles and wear and tear on my pride and joy. A stone chip in the baby blue and orange Gulf racing livery? OMG, perish the thought.
Come to think of it, half a million won't really be enough. After all, this isn't the kind of car anyone spends their last pennies on—it has to be the kind of purchase that doesn't make a noticeable dent in your disposable income or net worth. The kind of purchase that the people on Forbes' latest Richest People in America list could buy. The kind of buy that folks like Jerry Seinfeld, Jay Leno, Russian oligarchs or some random Arab sheik might make on their way back from the store. Heck, if the cars didn't take so long to complete, those buyers would probably snatch up a few in different shades just to suit their moods or their dates' eye color.
So how much are we up to now? Four million? Five? Would that kind of sum in my bank account be enough to justify a Singer in my garage? When would I actually have enough to pull the trigger?
In other words, how much is enough?
The other day I saw a sign that read, "Someone Else Is Happy With Less Than What You Have" and it made me think. We keep reading about the elites and the 1% and the multi-millionaires and the billionaires and what they have and what we don't. And yet, as the sign says, someone else is happy with less than what you have.
When do we stop and look around and take inventory and say, "This is pretty great"? When do we add all of the non-monetary luxuries we enjoy to our list and watch our metaphorical cup metaphorically runneth over? When do we stop linking our list to both the folks who have more than we do and the folks who are happy with less than we have and just stop and smile at what we've got?
I was only 12 when my grandma Mollie died but I remember going to her apartment after elementary school. First she'd serve me a big plate of the special flat cookies she'd bake or the "cheese things without any cheese" (I hated cheese and I guess she figured it was easier to call them that then actually change the recipe) and then I'd tell her about my day. At the time I didn't much care what someone else had as much as how quickly they'd run the 50-yard dash or how far they'd thrown the softball (always faster and further than I had, by the way).
Mollie's answer? "Don't compare."
My grandmother didn't tell me that "someone else is happy with less than what you have," nor did she lecture me about the kid who couldn't run because he had no shoes or the kid who couldn't throw because he had no arms. "Don't compare" was her simple admonishment and advice that has served me well in the 43 years since I last heard her voice.
Of course "don't compare" doesn't tell me how to get my Singer 911 either, but somehow I'm okay with that.
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The date of our Tribal Signature Boot Camp is getting closer and closer. No hard sell needed but if you'd like to learn more about it and what it can do for you, please click HERE. This is an event you won't want to miss — we're going to cover the exact steps you and your company need to follow to establish a powerful Tribal Signature that will help you build your brand equity.
Here's what dental business consultant Virginia Moore said about last year's conference:
A fresh perspective,
Information that really works,
You will receive that and more when you have Bruce Turkel speak to your organization.
Having been in attendance both when Bruce took the main stage at the National Speaker's Association Annual Convention and in an intimate workshop setting, I can personally attest to both the message and the application of his recommendations.
Watching 1200 attendees at NSA (and this is an audience of professional speakers!) held spellbound by both Bruce's message and his delivery of that message was an undeniable testament to his ability to captivate an audience and offer information that can revolutionize their marketing approach.
The only risk in considering Bruce Turkel for your meeting would be to not book him! He has a message and way of sharing it that can change the way dentists connect with patients and prospective patients. A message that I have never before seen delivered in the over 25 years that I've been in dentistry.
I guarantee you'll have attendees thanking you for bringing him to your meeting.
Virginia Moore
There's no obligation to find out more. All you have to do is click HERE.
Published on September 28th, 2014
Those of us who use the Internet to send marketing materials run the risk of sending unwanted emails – SPAM – to our distribution list. Sometimes it's inadvertent – people sign up for all sorts of things they later decide they don't want and often people sign up their friends or relatives without telling them. Sometimes it's on purpose – plenty of companies send spam to anyone they've come into contact with and even harvest names and addresses for later use with no thought to whether their recipients actually want the materials.
Different mail distribution companies (MyEmma, Listrak, Constant Contact, and their ilk) have systems and protocols for reducing spam but most of them rely on the honor system, requesting and requiring their clients to only send materials to addresses that have opted in. These requirements are not foolproof – a quick calculation of the volume of spam you receive proves this.
That's why I was so stunned to receive this response after I clicked on the "unsubscribe" button on a local university's mailing. I have removed their identification to protect the ham-fisted but didn't change anything else.
"If you do not wish to receive further fundraising communications from UNIVERSITY, please send your request by email to the following address: Development@UNIVERSITY or telephone the appropriate individual below. Please provide us with your name, phone number, and physical address, so that we may respect your wishes not to receive further fundraising communications. Only complete requests can be processed. You may receive additional communications while your request is processed."
Can you believe it? Not only did they send unsolicited spam, but they've requested that I stop what I'm doing to call them or send them an email and provide all my contact information so they can respect my wishes.
I might understand this if it was a third-world scam phishing expedition trying to steal my data – a Nigerian oil bonanza or a fake bank application perhaps – but this was from one of Miami's most prestigious universities.
Kinda makes you wonder what they teach in their marketing classes, huh?
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The date of our Tribal Signature Boot Camp is getting closer and closer. No hard sell needed but if you'd like to learn more about it and what it can do for you, please click HERE. This is an event you won't want to miss — we're going to cover the exact steps you and your company need to follow to establish a powerful Tribal Signature that will help you build your brand equity.
Here's what dental business consultant Virginia Moore said about last year's conference:
A fresh perspective,
Information that really works,
You will receive that and more when you have Bruce Turkel speak to your organization.
Having been in attendance both when Bruce took the main stage at the National Speaker's Association Annual Convention and in an intimate workshop setting, I can personally attest to both the message and the application of his recommendations.
Watching 1200 attendees at NSA (and this is an audience of professional speakers!) held spellbound by both Bruce's message and his delivery of that message was an undeniable testament to his ability to captivate an audience and offer information that can revolutionize their marketing approach.
The only risk in considering Bruce Turkel for your meeting would be to not book him! He has a message and way of sharing it that can change the way dentists connect with patients and prospective patients. A message that I have never before seen delivered in the over 25 years that I've been in dentistry.
I guarantee you'll have attendees thanking you for bringing him to your meeting.
Virginia Moore
There's no obligation to find out more. All you have to do is click HERE.
Published on September 24th, 2014
Josh Mayer is a nice guy who runs a wonderful advertising agency in New Orleans with his brother Mark. Josh also has a good enough marriage that his younger employees come to him for advice when they're thinking of getting married. Josh's advice is simple:
"Don't marry for money. Money comes and goes.
Don't marry for looks. Looks can fade.
Don't marry for sex. Sex gets better and worse (and better again, if you're lucky).
Don't even marry for love. Love also ebbs and flows."
You know, I spend a lot of time writing these posts and even more time thinking about what I'm going to write about. I want you to find these posts useful, enjoyable, and valuable. I'd also like them to be profound enough to make a difference to you and maybe even generate some commentary and ongoing discussion.
But Be Nice? Be nice is not something you've never heard before. Be nice is not earth shattering. Hell, be nice is not even profound.
But it is true.
Be Nice is the most important thing you can do to make your life better right this minute. Because being nice changes you and it changes the way the people around you react.
Since hearing Josh's advice I've been trying to train myself to be nice. For example, I greet every jogger and dog-walker and bus stop sitter I pass on my morning runs. The folks I run with make fun of me when the people I greet don't return the greeting but it doesn't matter. I'm greeting them for myself. Here are five other simple ways to be nice:
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Published on September 16th, 2014


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New Year's Eve, 2009. As the rest of the country relaxed in the sun, a Nelson man faced the darkest of accusations. He has the dubious distinction of being what the media calls "a former prominent person", and his stepdaughter accused him of sexual abuse in their own home. She was 13 at the time, and said the man indecently touched her breast while watching television in the lounge - and again, later, in her bedroom.
The man said nothing happened. That the kids and he watched a movie, went to bed, and he spent the evening tidying up the lounge. But police arrived to arrest him the next night and the man could not return home for nearly three years. The drive to the police station, he said, felt like "falling back into an abyss".
During the trial the man's lawyer accused this girl, who must now be barely 16, of convincing herself that something happened, of going too far with the story to turn back, or perhaps of dreaming the whole thing. She says she did not.
Yesterday, the jury unanimously found him guilty. For the average person following the case this week, it was impossible to read the daily news reports and predict what decision they'd make. There was no physical evidence; it seemed to come down to his word against hers.
It's over now. But as I read the news reports I wondered about the possibility of innocence, and what it would be like to be accused, Kafka-esque, of a crime you'd never committed; particularly a crime as gross as this. When I was at school, one male teacher simply disappeared amid similar swirling rumours. I never found out if they were true or not; in some ways, it doesn't matter. Once the accusation has been made, it sticks. The feeling must be akin to being buried alive.
Mangakino man Leonard Joseph was falsely accused of raping a 14-year-old girl, and was acquitted in 2010. He told the Waikato Times he'll never be able to shake the stigma.
Married with seven children, the charges "destroyed" him and all the work he'd been trying to do for the Mangakino community. He used to spend five nights a week teaching kapa haka, hip-hop and rugby league teams, but it ended when he was arrested and confined to his mother's house on a 24-hour curfew.
He spent 17 weeks in Waikeria Prison before being released on electronic bail. "That is just one charge you don't want to go to jail for," he told the paper. He was verbally threatened numerous times and watched as other men around him were beaten and raped. "Mentally it destroys a person. It almost killed me."
I know of many men in teaching and caring roles who fear the same. My father, a phys-ed teacher for 20 years, used to end after-school detention early when there was just one girl and him, so they wouldn't be left alone.
Another male teacher I know always makes sure that if he has to speak to a girl after class the door is open and a friend sticks around. It would take one teen grudge to ruin him and his family, he says.
Then there's Sydney fireman Johnny McGirr, who was on a Virgin Australia flight from Brisbane to Sydney last month and was mortified when flight attendants asked him to move from his seat next to two unaccompanied boys - airline policy, they said.
The same thing happened to a male nurse sitting next to a 10-year-old girl on a Qantas flight. Look at the awful message such a policy sends young women - that every man is a potential abuser, if only they had the opportunity.
This man has name suppression. It protects the victim, though the public's hunger is always to find out the identity of the accused. I do not want to undermine victims of rape and sexual abuse, and nor do I want to suggest this girl was lying. But I do wonder how many good and decent men - coaches, carers, teachers and fathers - live with this persistent worry on their shoulder; going between work and home every day with the fear that it will happen to them.
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NGSON: An Interesting Standardization Effort
When user generated content began to populate the Internet, and to generate the revolution of content related services, researches understood that user generated services could be the next step to continue such service evolution. Over the last decade standardization efforts have emerge to provide answers and architectural models; efforts like TMF SDF, OMA OSE, ATIS SON, ITU NGN SIDE, OPUCE, SOA and SPICE, can be considered as the more relevant. Recently the IEEE WG P1903 was created to develop the concept of NGSON (Next Generation of Service Overlay Networks), a previous concept, SON (Service Overlay Network), was formulated with the intention to integrate service aware1 technologies created by SOA and delivered over multiple networks using SDP, but the concept lacked some critical features like continuity of the service over multiple networks, or the presentation of content over different devices, considering multiple and diverse contexts of environments. NGSON promises that these features are going to be included, so is natural to think that this new architectural model can revolutionize the way that today the industry develops and delivers the service over Telecommunications networks, this concept can be conceived as a big umbrella that not only integrates service aware models but also will allow the Telcos through the use of a powerful network scheme to provide the first truly pervasive service. The convergence of services, models and technologies in Telecommunications has been well criticized in the past, is obvious that adoption of convergence models hasn't been massive or enthusiastic; can this new concept become the answer for Telcos seeking to keep services converging over their roof?
NGSON Brings To the Table…
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This concept can be thought as extra layer between the service and the network that today Telcos use to deliver service. What really calls the attention is that it allows the service provider to extend beyond its own network infrastructure to reach different networks, contents and even users. NGSON also includes three advance functionalities; Context Awareness, Dynamic Adaptation and Self-Organization. Context Awareness is a key tool for the service realization, it allows the network to evaluate the situational context of the user in multiple dimensions these being: the service, the user, the device and the network. The Dynamic Adaptation will allow the service to transcend beyond networks and devices (Total mobility) ensuring continuity. Self-Organization ensures that internal resources configuration of this new layer can adapt autonomously imitating the proved principle of resilience from the Internet. But what can you do with it? This architectural concept is divided in several layers and functions, investigation efforts and proof of concepts so far have focused on: User created service; the user choses from a list of services, those he wishes to be combined and delivered without having deep SW or telecommunication knowledge. As an option to provide temporal content storage and optimization functions providing core traffic offloading capabilities through its specialized layer that interfaces with the traditional transport networks. It also has been conceived as an option to aggregate Cloud computational resources. Finally, what I consider the one that generates more expectative is the possibility to provide a truly pervasive service; your identity, applications, contacts and preferences everywhere, in all your devices and without interruption.
The Technical Challenges Today
This effort is just starting and a lot remain to be done, given the current state of the art, the following challenges and work ahead needs to be considered to count with a complete technical proposal:
- Context Awareness feature must be used for traffic optimization delivery, P2P concepts can be integrated to optimize traffic movement through the network.
- The protocols to be executed in the different interfaces still unknown, but have to be compatible with the current service technologies in place.
- The layer that interfaces with the current Telco networks called the Delivery control plane hasn't been completely developed; several issues and complexity definitions remain to be known.
- QoS transparently support is required throughout the different interfaces and layers of the model, needless to say how challenging this might be in some networks.
- Easy integration with Telco networks; the interconnection not only has to be possible, but has to be simple and very fast to deploy.
The Problems of the Past Could be Problems of Today
The industry has tried through different approaches to regain the user attention lost against the Internet content providers, the barriers of adoption faced by those different approaches are well known, let me summarize those barriers that I can recognize for NGSON and contrast it against its objectives and architecture definition:
- Failure to attract critical mass of applications developers for the Telecom service: The NGSON through its Service control layer that includes discovery, integration composition and routing seem to address this issue, but again without knowing the complexity definitions and compatibility with existing service platforms it's difficult to forecast the success.
- Complexity of the model or service architecture: there are several dimensions of complexity to consider; for the model itself, for application developers, for integration with the existent service technologies, complexity to commercialize the model and to integrate it to the network of Telcos. Although the model seems to be realizable and simple enough at a high level to provide planning for growing and maintenance activities, the current information makes it hard to conclude if complexity will ruin the party.
- Compatibility: The dimensions to be compatible with are; current content providers and service platforms. Control protocols and signaling schemes both for user content delivery and control of resources and coordination among functional entities. Within current transport networks, again the communication protocols play a key role; it must also consider the negotiation of capabilities and resources for all possible transport networks. For this consideration NGSON implements in a separate way, a control plane for the service, another plane for unified signaling control and a different one for control of the media bearers, this is definitely one of the strongest points of this functional architecture.
- Time to market: When talking about adoption of new network infrastructure for service delivery (e.g WCDMA or LTE) is quite understandable that Telcos take their time, and even desirable that standardization bodies also pace their work. But when talking about the service creation infrastructure, time is a critical factor, if there isn't a quick path of release and availability, the whole concept can be invalidated by a new service paradigm developed by industries less bound by convergence and complexity. NGSON doesn't count with any advantages here.
- Services/Applications/Hooks: It has been proved that Telcos normally do not "nailed it", when it comes to service creation, so this time around collaborative efforts must be convened, Internet innovators, young developers, content giants and groups of users must be called to make part of the service layer planning department. As usual, it seems very hard to find real collaborative efforts for NGSON, and no initiative is well known and strong enough to be taken into account for existing service aware technologies.
One of the main objectives of NGSON is to beneficiate, Content providers, Service Providers and users, the problem is that there seems to be a gap between the concept development and the communication of value to the possible key stakeholders, someone in the industry should bridge this gap.
What should the Industry do to Ensure Success?
Considering the huge potential this concept holds to provide the jump towards a new type of service for Telecommunication companies, and as a fan of technology, a professional of the industry and as a plain user, in my opinion this should the action plan for the industry:
- Take full advantage of advance features, this means in the short term, integrating under the technical functional concepts of EPC 4G, the various access technologies available, considering that one access technology would not reach as many users as all of them combined.
- Cannot be timid when it comes to displaying the capabilities of the architecture, in other words Telcos must give away the power of service creation to those who can execute it to the best this concept can provide.
- Industry must take the risk, different economy indicators are not favorable for Telcos anymore, ARPU continue to decline, and network usage spikes beyond reasonable network growing, It's time!
- I'm not sure if everyone is convinced about services created by the user, but if the industry really believes that this could be the evolution path of the service, we need to start generating information about it, to explain it in a different way, the commercial conditions must be properly set.
I see this concept as an interesting opportunity that will provide the Telcos enough arguments for the first time to give away the control of service offering, ensuring economic survival and at the same time evolving towards the next phase of services.
Final Remarks
So rephrasing the question that frames this blog: Would the new concept of service creation really revolutionize the industry? To the best of my understanding the NGSON is a well-conceived technical concept that overcomes several flaws of early approximations, has all the necessary components to be innovative and to become successful.
But, the cold truth is that still a lot of work to be done, various barriers faced by unified frameworks in the past still present today, industry leaders remain distant to the need of a new approach to the service, in other words innovators roles that could take us the next level remain vacant. In conclusion is a very interesting concept with huge potential, which has to overcome several non-trivial challenges but still have some time to accomplish its objective. As a user and fan of Telecommunications I really would like to see the realization of the service as promised by this interesting effort.
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- The concept of service awareness is a paradigm that conceives the service composition through high level functional blocks that abstract the complexity of lower transport and delivery layers
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Published: Monday June 16, 2014 MYT 4:48:40 AM Updated: Monday June 16, 2014 MYT 4:48:40 AM
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - Substitute Haris Seferovic finished off a breathtaking box-to-box counter-attack in stoppage time to give Switzerland a thrilling 2-1 win over Ecuador in their World Cup Group E opener on Sunday.
A brilliant block tackle by Valon Behrami in his own area instigated the break, which was allowed to continue by an excellent decision from Uzbek referee Ravshan Irmatov after the midfielder was body-checked.
The move continued with Ricardo Rodriguez crossing for Seferovic to finish in the 93rd minute, sending the Swiss fans into raptures and deflating the South Americans, who had played their part in another World Cup attack-fest - albeit lacking the quality seen in earlier matches.
"It was a dream end to the game for us and is very important for the morale of the team," Swiss coach Ottmar Hitzfeld told reporters.
"It will give us some extra strength for the next two matches," he added, looking ahead to clashes with France and Honduras.
The Swiss had promised more attacking endeavour with an exciting young side after dour, defensive displays in their last two World Cups, but it was the South Americans who struck first in the 22nd minute after pre-match concerns about the Europeans' soft centre proved founded.
Ecuador striker Enner Valencia easily stepped away from Johan Djourou to meet Walter Ayovi's free kick from the right and Swiss goalkeeper Diego Benaglio was stuck on his line as the ball fizzed into his six-yard box.
The Swiss had bossed possession for long periods at the Brasilia national stadium, where thousands of fans missed the kickoff as the negotiated the lengthy security queues, but they struggled to break down the South Americans and were restricted to long shots.
Hitzfeld had seen enough and opted to introduce Admir Mehmedi at the break and the forward needed just three minutes to make an impact as he beat Carlos Gruezo to head home a corner and level the scores.
The goal opened up the scrappy but entertaining contest as the play flowed end to end but both teams lacked calmness and quality in the final third.
The Swiss, who beat Spain in their opening match in South Africa four years ago but failed to reach the knockout stages, thought they had taken the lead when Josip Drmic poked home from close range with 20 minutes left but the strike was wrongly ruled out for offside.
Undeterred, both sides continued to go toe to toe like heavyweight boxers and Ecuador substitute Michael Arroyo almost snatched the lead with an 86th-minute deflected free kick that unconvincing Swiss goalkeeper Diego Benaglio did well to palm away.
The Ecuador substitute was then guilty of dawdling in possession after trying to take an extra touch in the penalty area when he should have shot, allowing Behrami, who was guilty of giving away the ball cheaply throughout the match, to block his effort in the dying seconds.
The fatigued South Americans were slow to track back after committing forward in search of the winner with Rodriguez allowed time and space down the left to roll his cross into the area for Seferovic to smash into the roof of the net.
Ecuador coach Reinaldo Rueda lamented "a moment of naivety" that cost his side the game. "We lost our organisation at the end, we were somewhat betrayed by our emotion and this provoked the goal which took the draw away from us," he told reporters.
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One group is charging toward the finish line while the other appears stuck in the starting blocks as two groups race to get their casino gaming proposal on the November ballot.
The two groups, Michigan is Yours and Racing to Save Michigan, are competing to place initiatives on November's ballot allowing new casinos in the state. Each group needs to collect 386,000 signatures before a July 5 deadline.
The Michigan is Yours group appears to be ahead, and their spokesman expressed confidence that they will garner more than enough signatures to get their proposal on the November ballot. Meanwhile, leaders of Racing to Save Michigan have said publicly they may have to wait until 2012 for their initiative.
Michigan is Yours is co-chaired by Benton Harbor Mayor Wilce Cooke and former Detroit Gaming Commissioner Frank Stella. MIY is seeking to put casinos in Detroit, Flint, Lansing, Benton Harbor, Muskegon, Port Huron and at Detroit Metropolitan Airport. The group also wants to allow sports betting at all new casinos.
Under the MIY proposal, the seven casinos would have to pay a wagering tax on their adjusted gross receipts of 19 percent or less, which would go toward fully funding the state's Pure Michigan national tourism campaign, the Michigan Promise Grant program and help to support public schools and local and county governments where the casinos are built.
"Our casino proposal has the capacity to bring jobs and economic development to some of the hardest hit regions in Michigan," said Trevor Sarter, spokesman for MIY. "We want to include everyone in Michigan, and we invite them to join our diverse coalition of supporters."
MIY has hired two professional signature-gathering firms and has reached out to labor unions, ethnically diverse groups and the LGBT community to help get the necessary signatures to get the proposal on the ballot this November.
"We are confident, we are excited and we are determined to be successful with more than enough signatures," said Sarter.
Racing to Save Michigan's proposal is to add three new casinos around the state and add casino gaming to Michigan's five licensed racetracks: Hazel Park Harness Raceway, Northville Downs, Swartz Creek's Sports Creek Raceway, Pinnacle Race Course in Van Buren Township and Mount Pleasant Meadows. Their proposal also calls for wagering tax to help fund education, local municipalities and county level governments.
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