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Well spoken, commonsensical and Joseph Zet. There is nothing wrong in protecting a nations industry and jobs and thereby securing social harmony - as long as the protectionist measures are well balanced, of course. Corporations that have outsourced jobs to China and elsewhere may have increased their profits but the nation as such has lost on outsourcing since unemployment carries an economic as well as a, sometimes very high, social cost. The Economist will probably give the old argument about Ricardo's comparative advantages but is this really valid in to-day's world?
Another aspect here, at least as far as certain European countries are concerned: how much unemployment is imported, i.e. due to certain immigrants being unemployable. Youth unemployment in immigrant areas around Paris is as high as 40 per cent.
WHO ON EARTH WANTS A JOB??? We get them just to complain about them and our bosses. We don't need to create more "jobs" at these obscenely large horizontally and vertically integrated corporations -- beg your pardon, they're "people" now, too. We need for our flesh-and-blood people to actually learn something from school so they can be productive and create and grow their own businesses. Primary and secondary schools are nothing more than babysitters teaching useless trivia.
I am sorry to say, but in my opinion, the West will see a hike in the number of jobless in times to come.
Those with skills which are easily replaceable will be the first to loose job. But then the highly skilled will also face tough times.
This is primarily because of the rise of a educated and skilled middle class in the BRIC countries. They have been at the forefront of grabbing jobs from the west. Th job movement has followed the laws of economics, where lower labour cost has dictated that the large corporations move their operations to low cost countries with skilled labour. The large corporations are reaping the benefits . They are sitting on piles of cash.
However the question is, what is keeping the cost of labour low in the developing nations? It is primarily the huge poor population is these countries that keep cost at check. The commodity costs are same everywhere across the globe. But the poor underclass provides service to the new middle class at rates which are significantly cheaper than those in the developed countries. For example, the cost of petrol is almost same in Mumbai or Amsterdam ,however the cost of servicing the car is significantly different. This is because the car mechanic in Netherlands has to be paid a minimum wage set by the rule of law, whereas the mechanic in Mumbai has no such right.
In my opinion, it is the poor underclass in developing nations who are propping up their middle class and the middle class is reaping the actual benefit of globalization.
I don't see much hope for the poor underclass in the developing nations, nor for the jobless in west.
I recall The Economist writing a couple of recession ago that people were unemployed in the U.S. because they were too well paid, and the solution was to cut pay and benefits.
It seems the thinking has changed. You might want to explain why.
By the way, the market clearing wage in NY right now is zero. New hires are expected to work as "interns." Meanwhile, the economy of paying workers less but still being able to sell them things somehow is in collapse.
Too much faith in leaders to do the right thing, you have. Dark times ahead, I fear.
US and most of Western Countries were busy for last two decades develop "global economy" = middle class of China and other developing countries and destruction of its own middle class. Large corporations show bigger profits but most of Western countries impoverished its middle class.
Now Politicians are surprised not to be able recover the economy by stimulus packages – that can work if you have the middle class able to react on these stimulus. Today most of monies are waisted on institutions that are using it for bonuses and rents.
There are no easy solutions to the unemployment problem. The more I think the more the Japanese idea of "salarymen" seems to make eminent sense; their demographics might be messed up but their unemployment is less than 5% last I checked.
Unemployment is ALSO where the rubber really MEETS the road. I mean things such as budget deficit, trade deficit, current account deficit, "lots of regulations" etc. are abstract concepts to most people. But UNEMPLOYMENT is real. The longer it persists I expect protectionist sentiment to raise. And that might not be all that bad for the US IMO. People forget that for the first half of 20th century US was pretty protectionist. It was only after WW2 that US pushed free trade vigorously because it suited US' interests as US was the ONLY SHERIFF in town.
The Law of Unintended Consequences:
One of the Largest Generator of Jobs is not a Jobs Program. And it has never received government aid or recognition. It is a web site that normal sells old sofas, power tools and refrigerators. It is Craig's List.
It is a local bulletin board that has evolved to match skills with piece meal work: data entry, sewing a dress, roof patching, web site design, photography, bricklaying, help for special sales events.
IT is highly local. It is your neighbors who you normally do not discuss your needs regarding house or yard tasks that are undone.
And in any market there is a lot of opportunity for unmatched labor and small temporary work tasks. Done on a handshake. Fixed prices. Maybe free lemonade at the end of a hot afternoon task.
Craig's List has probably generated more jobs in the past year than any single government program or politician. IT is the thriving lemonade stand on the web who is still hiring.
You might want to read some recent entries in my blog on that. There is now also a collection of comments I made here over the last 3 years ... although some of those might seem redundant. Because none of what we see today has not been predicted by people years ago.
Oh of course it is easy to reduce unemployment levels. Just define them out of way and they are gone. Or make people work in unrewarding, underpaid jobs and they won't be unemployed - they won't even be underemployed, because they absolutely couldn't work less than full time while earning enough money.
And hey, look at Germany. It works just fine!
3 million unemployed receiving social benefits and roughly another 4 million working their behinds off while receiving social benefits because they money they earn in their jobs is less than that. Germany doesn't have minimum wages, which makes such hypocrisy possible.
Then, of course, you're starting to define people over 60 as something-other-than-unemployed when they don't have a job - because that wouldn't be fair for people who can't find a job in the economy anyway. (No, the logic behind that is not very clear.) And so on and so forth.
The German government issued a statement, that the unemployment rate has reached its lowest point since 1991. Anyone who lived through 1991 on the eastern side of Germany will call this bovine excrements. Because in 1991 the actual rate of people without a job in the east was over 50%. (Putting the number in the east alone to something like 5-6 million unemployed.) That's the kind of thing that happens when a town of 40.000 loses three factories each employing over a thousand people in a matter of months (not to mention several other smaller ones).
Official statistics were hiding them under nothing else than fraudulent descriptions like "short work" (well, it's short work if you work for 0-hours per week, isn't it?), people in the "waiting loop", people in useless retraining (well, at least those who did the "training" were employed ...) and of course that eternal favorite: early retirement.
The problem is much worse than the Economist makes it seem here - even though you could hardly blame it to be upbeat in the first place.
It is impossible to create jobs in the developed countries so long as everyone is competing for a larger share of the economy by pushing wages, taxes and social benefits as low as possible. We're just getting into the next round of austerity measures that will push a lot of economies in Europe into a relentless recession. This way, companies will get to keep their record profits while it is in fact those profits that make up all the potential we have in our society to rebuild the economy.
Those austerity measures and the depression of wages is crushing the economy and with it the people who make up this economy and for whom the economy *exists* in the first place. A point all but lost to governments who seem to think that the well-being of corporations should enjoy precedence over the well-being of the people at all times.
There are times when it should in fact be - but only when a longterm benefit can be derived from investments of corporations. Which is patently not the case today. Because corporations are not fools.
Why should they invest in anything when they know exactly from the way the economy is developing, that their investments will be starved of costumers as soon as they want to sell their products, because those potential costumers don't earn enough money to possibly be able to afford buying this stuff? And they are in the best position of all to know this - because it is them paying those the wages in the first place.
I agree with most of the posters so far. In the US most of the jobs for the semi-educated have moved to China. Whats left are service and Govt jobs. There is still some high tech jobs here but China is working hard to take those away also. Re-training from a semi-educated to a fully educated takes too long and is too expensive, and there is no guarantee that a job would be available even with re-training. With the Govt essentially broke, further deficit spending to create jobs is all the more difficult to justify.
There's not much you can do about unemployment when there simply aren't any jobs around to fit the number of people, you can play with monetary policy all you want, and you'll just end up paying workers to dig a hole and then filling it up again. German unemployment levels are not just low because they retained workers during the downturn, the country exports more than the United States with a quarter of the population, and they have a culture that value education and training, in other words, they have actual jobs for people to work on and people who are educated enough to do them, these are things service sector dominated economies without a culture that value education just couldn't match.
Ultimately the unemployment rate reflect a disconnection between people's expectations and their abilities, and the only real solutions are to either lower people's expectations (which can be achieved through monetary policy), or increase their skill levels. Unfortunately most governments are choosing the former, I guess its because the latter takes a lot longer to see effect.
As an Irish person in my 20's with several under (and unemployed) family members and friends It's depressing to read this, I'm not sure honestly that just retraining is enough, retraining schemes as far as they've gone in Ireland have been money sinks, more pointedly I feel more and more that my generation have very little stake in the future as despite most (in my friends cases) having multiple degree's and languages alongside a willingness to work (and travel to look for that work) there is nothing approaching stability or even a vision for our lives.
How can politicians reduce employment? Government spending will create jobs in China. The people who should have invested in manufacturing prefer outsourcing for making profits. Farming is subsidized in the form of support prices. Why not treat manufacturing Industry in same manner.
More stimulus? The Economist has become the last bastion of deluded Keynesians.
To rid ourselves of unemployment we need organic growth, which is not fuelled by deficit spending or cheap money. The best basis to achieve this is to have the government run a balanced budget and bankers to offer positive real interest rates. Growth must come through investment as governments and individuals re-balance.
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We're Out of Gas...literally.
I took my two toddlers and my grandmother to the mall for the thanksgiving sale, and by the time I reached home with a pouty grandmother and sleeping kids there was no gas in the car. My husband with no job or money was heading out when I told him there was no gas in the car. I gave him my credit card and told him "gas only". He was outraged that I had such nerve, and told me I should have filled it up. I probably should have, but I was pretty frustrated after the day. He throws the keys and my credit card on the sofa and says "forget it, I'm not going anywhere". I grab the stuff and tell him I'm going to put gas in the car. He walks out to the poarch. I leave. When I get back he's fussing at me for being an irresponsible parent and leaving our sleeping children alone in the house while he was on the poarch. I was just trying to keep the peace and put gas in the car. We yell back and forth and he tells me how childish I was and I should be a better parent. I know I'm a damn good parent and the whole fight was nonsense. I would never intentionally leave my children in harms way and it ****** me off that he would even go there.
He doesn't realize he's a parent, too. Those children don't have only mother, but also father. That is not due to the financial problems, it he's way of thinking. Don't fool yourself with that. You now need to load yourself with A LOT of patience, because this is just the beginning. Until he gets job, he'll be constantly tensed. He asks himself if you still respect him even now, when he can't provide the necessary things and he'll start arguing with you each time he feels even a slight wave of "I don't trust you", or "You're not good enough". <br />
It's not your fault, it's not he's fault. You can make it through this, too.
Sounds like the stress of family finances and holidays is getting the best of you both all at once. Take a deep breath, then think back to a moment when you two last had a good time. A smile, a warm hug or a glance even across the room. Let the dust settle and just say "I think we are both a little stressed out". its hard times out there right now.. I feel them everyday myself. .. also, you are not an awful parent.
wow, I could see him getting mad if he wasn't around the house at all and you left,but he was on the porch, he would have been able to take care of any issue that would have come up....It's ridiculous that he would stoop so low as to say you are a bad parent, there is never any cause to say such a thing unless the person in question does truly horrible things and doesn't care, which I am betting you don't.He is the one that is childish throwing a tantrum because you didn't put gas in the car than refusing to put it in himself and fussing.....I personally feel you did nothing wrong, if this is an ongoign issue with the two of you I would suggest sitting down and hashing it out:) Best of luck doll:)

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Current Concepts With Revisional Bunion Surgery
Treating An Excessively Short Big Toe (Loss Of Big Toe Purchase)
It is not uncommon to have some shortening of the big toe after bunion surgery. However, some bunion procedures may result in more shortening than others. Excessive shortening can come from osteotomies and midfoot fusion procedures. Distal osteotomies can shorten through metaphyseal bone loss if one impacts the bone during translation of the capital fragment during the index operation. Sometimes troughing of the bone can lead to shortening. A midfoot fusion may shorten the first ray by about 0.5 cm although one can compensate for this by plantarflexing/translating the segment inferiorly. Over-resection and/or excessive wedging of the first metatarsocuneiform joint surfaces during a Lapidus bunionectomy can lead to excessive shortening.
A short segment may be short in comparison with the lesser metatarsal parabola or retracted within the first metatarsophalangeal joint, resulting in a joint contracture or loss of purchase of the big toe. The body will tolerate some degree of shortening and a short segment is only problematic (or pathologic) when the shortening results in pain or secondary structural problems. These include significant symptomatic loss of hallux purchase, prominent sub-first metatarsal head with pain and/or less metatarsalgia with pain and/or stress fractures.
One can treat this via distraction (Lapidus) with big toe joint capsular release. When the first metatarsal has been excessively shortened (and the big toe joint is intact), my treatment of choice typically involves adding length through a bone block distraction midfoot fusion. Surgeons may use various grafting materials. The lateral wall of the calcaneus is an excellent source for bicortical graft and depending on the patient, one can harvest grafts up to 2 cm. Of course, the surgeon can also perform various orientation osteotomies alternatively.
One patient had a failed bunion surgery (Lapidus bunionectomy), resulting in a very short first metatarsal and a big toe that could not purchase the ground as it was fixed in 45 degrees of dorsiflexion (see left photo). The revision involved bringing the first ray back out to length with a distraction Lapidus, using autogenous calcaneal bicortical bone block, in addition to a capsulotomy of the first MPJ (with temporary pinning). The revision bunion surgery was successful as the length of the first ray returned and the hallux could touch the ground and was functional.
Keys To Remediating Nonunions
Any bone cutting bunionectomy or bone fusion bunionectomy is at risk for incomplete bone healing (nonunion). One should not really consider a nonunion to be a complication. Rather, it is a known possible occurrence. Every joint fusion has a risk rate for nonunion. Studies estimate the rate of nonunion for the first tarsometatarsal joint at 0-10 percent.5,6 There are risk factors for developing nonunion and a common one is smoking. Surgeons should weigh these risks when considering bone surgery in general.
Radiographic nonunions (or non-painful nonunions) should not require surgical intervention. Radiographic nonunions (from joint fusion) may progress onto full radiographic union one to two years after the index operation. In my practice, I have found that an electromagnetic field is very successful in attaining fusion with nonunion cases of the first tarsometatarsal joint.
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The narrative put forth by the Bush administration, mostly by Dick Cheney as of late, was that EITs were necessary to withdraw information from those with suspected close ties to Bin Laden and those who wished to cause us harm. Even going to the lenths as to cite CIA documents that would prove the thwarting of said threats. Okay. Something dawned on me last night, and I'm kinda kicking myslef today for not thinking of this. If any and all information was crucial to saving american lives in a post 9-11 era.... why did our administration allow this to happen? Bin Ladens allowed out of U.S. after 9-11 seems they might have SOME info that we could use, right? seems like we would do anything in our power to get that info, to save american lives....right? The simple fact that while every amercan was grounded for days....the family of OBL was allowed to leave our country, after the horrors of that day. The juststification of EIDs by the Bush administration is a LIE. They let the Bin Laden's leave..... as the sex pistols said "Its a swindle!"
not as bad as clinton having OBL served up on a platter and declining....... OBL had been ostracized from his family...........there would be just as much value in torturing you.......which is zero
first of all, there is no value in torture. secondly.....these people who stooped to the tactic to "keep you safe" let the closest link to bin laden leave the country, when all other citizens were grounded. They just zoomed out of here on 9-12....without a single question asked. It proves their arguement about keeping us safe is BS, and you apparently love the taste.
care to offer up any other opinions? the government was convinced they had nothing to offer..........other than genetic similarity naaahhhh.........you're just obsessed with the notion
well according to all interrogators... here is what General Ricardo Sanchez says about it: "during my time in Iraq there was not one instance of actionable intelligence that came out of these interrogation techniques." a tortured confession can't be used in a court because it ilicits false confessions. So...our legals system says it doesn't work. The Army Field manual seems to me the only people who claim it 'works' are Dick Cheney and the remaining neocons. and.... REALLY! they decided that no Bin Laden =had any useful info in a matter of HOURS after 9-11? REALLY!!!!!??????? so they just let them go....... and tortured other future detainees? what color is the sky in your world, Tanked?
Bush did what a good liberal would , he did the "humane thing" can you imagine what the American people would have done if they knew Bin Ladens family was in the USA when 9/11 happened, they would have been found and killed. Bush acted like Jimmy Carter on that one.
Well here is a link to a story that has a quote from an ex CIA agent that said waterboarding does in fact work and saved lives. Ex-CIA agent: Waterboarding 'saved lives' - CNN.com You do realize that you are comparing waterboarding 3 high memebers of Al Qaeda, you call them "future detainees" to members of Bin Ladens family who had absolutely no knowldge of his location and have had no contact with OBL for many, many years if at all. If you cant see the differences in those then you are hopeless.
Cheney's version of torture "working" was that under torture he got a few tortured people to admit there was a link between 9-11 and Iraq (which is bogus).
I think that we (sane) people understand the torture timeline, and what 'confessions' they were looking to get ( liks between Iraq, and Bin Laden ) you can tell the difference between the confused, and the lucid by how often the confused envoke 9-11 in the torturing excuses. the entire argument is BROKEN by the fact that we let these family members simply fly away. The fact that at each turn the White House attempted to block an investigation inot 9-11, the fact that Bush and Cheney wouldn't discuss the greatest crime in our nation's history under oath in an open session. Those on this board who STILL defend the release of 4 flights with well over 140 people after 9-11. Then turn around and say that we needed to torture (waterboard etc) detainees to find ourt about future attacks are dillusional at best. Those on this board with clarity understand that torture has NOTHING TO DO WITH 9-11, and has everything to do with justification of the Iraqi invasion.
Coming in From the Cold: CIA Spy Calls Waterboarding Necessary But Torture - ABC News he also calls the technique "Torture" and you might wanny stop with the cherry picking....the story has been updated: UPDATE: U.S. Government documents released in April 2009 indicate that Kiriakou's account that Abu Zubaydah broke after only one water boarding session was incorrect. According to a footnote in newly released, previously classified "Top Secret" memos, the CIA used the water board "at least 83 times during August 2002 in the interrogation of Zubaydah." Following the release of the documents, Kiriakou said: "When I spoke to ABC News in December 2007 I was aware of Abu Zubaydah being water boarded on one occasion. It was after this one occasion that he revealed information related to a planned terrorist attack. As I said in the original interview, my information was second-hand. I never participated in the use of enhanced techniques on Abu Zubaydah or on any other prisoner, nor did I witness the use of such techniques." are we clear? can you see yet?
perfectly...........it is torture.........so what? Poll: US divided over torture, closing Guantanamo - Yahoo! News more are in favor of it anyway...........
It is creepy how the Bush administration made such heavy and controversial use of the material witness provisions in our laws yet chose to let these potential material witnesses leave while the rest of us were grounded.
The Bin Laden flights At least 13 relatives of Osama bin Laden, accompanied by bodyguards and associates, left the United States on a chartered flight eight days after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, according to a passenger manifest released on July 21, 2004.[17] The passenger list was made public by Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), who obtained the manifest from officials at Boston's Logan International Airport. None of the flights, domestic or international, took place before the reopening of national airspace on the morning of Sept. 13 and the 9/11 Commission found ""no evidence of a political intervention". [18] bin Laden family - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


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- We are delighted to announce that Professor George W. Gokel joins the department in the fall as Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Associate Director of the Center for Molecular Electronics. Dr. Gokel is also Professor of Biology. He joins us from the Washington University School of Medicine, where he was Director of the Chemical Biology Program in the Department of Molecular Biology & Pharmacology.
- Professor Jingyue (Jimmy) Liu, Director of the Center for Molecular Electronics and Professor of Physics and Chemistry also joins us this fall. Professor Liu received his B.Sc. (Hons.) degree from Beijing University of Science and Technology, and his Ph.D. degree from Arizona State University. Prior to joining the University of Missouri-St. Louis in September 2006, he was a Senior Science Fellow and Senior Research Manager at Monsanto Company.
- A new organic chemist Dr. Eike B. Baur who received his Ph.D. degree at the University of Erlangen - Nuremberg in Germany with John Gladysz, and did postdoctoral research with Keith Hollis at the University of California-Riverside, joined the department this fall. He was previously a Visiting Assistant Professor at Illinois Wesleyan University.
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- Jim OBrien (UM-St. Louis) and Leah O'Brien (SIUE) received a grant for $340,000 from the Experimental Physical Chemistry program at the National Science Foundation to study "Spectroscopy of Pd and Pt Catalytic Mimetics,"
- Alexei V. Demchenko received a five year CAREER award for $552,000 from the National Science Foundation for his project "Stereocontrolled synthesis of 1,2-cis glycosides" and a two-year grant from the American Heart Association for his project "Synthesis and evaluation of novel lipid-A derivatives" for $143,000.
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Wait a minute. It's not about engagement after all!
Mar 15th
I've been invited to be a presenter on an upcoming B2B Blogging webinar (announcement forthcoming!) so I've been studying many company blogs that I regard as best practices. As I moved from site to site, I noticed something surprising. There were very few comments. In fact, there were virtually none. It was kind of an "a-ha moment."
As an example, I would direct your attention to General Electric, a gold standard for corporate blogging. Their site is a glorious mix of art, entertainment, news and inspiration. GE combines beautiful writing, graphics and video to tell their story in a compelling way. And there are no comments anywhere.
Does the fact that there is no engagement on this forum mean GE is failing? If one of the largest and best-managed companies in the world can't create a community through their blog, how do we hold out hope for our own clients and company blogs?
As I've stewed on this issue, I've determined that we need to re-think the whole notion of engagement on company blogs. In fact, we need to forget about it in most cases. There are two reasons why.
Nobody's home
I am blessed with a vibrant, intellectual, caring community on {grow}. It's not unusual for me to receive more comments in a day than GE and many corporate blogs receive in a year. I believe the distinguishing factor is that there is a face to the {grow} community. You know me as a person and once you bump around a bit, you start to know the other community members too.
Company blogs are usually written by a team of people. There are notable benefits to this approach:
- Diversity of views and topics
- Spread out the workload
- Consistency of coverage even during vacations and attrition
So I'm not criticizing this blogging strategy. But the downside is that there is no personality to connect to. People are unlikely to form a community around an anonymous team of people. If you're employing this approach, I think it's a long-shot to expect meaningful engagement.
Example of an exception: Randy's Journal, the personal Boeing blog of Marketing VP Randy Tinseth. Real guy. Real community.
Let's look at the numbers
A recent study by Compendium shows that 92% of B2C companies claim that 60% or more of their blog traffic are first-time visitors and a vast majority of the time, more than 80% are newcomers every day.
The numbers for B2B are a little better with 64% of companies claiming that 60% or more of their visitors have never been there before on any given day.
In other words, visitors to a company's blog are not a core group of loyal community members. It's a constant churn of people who have never been there before … and may never be there again.
Re-thinking the meaning of engagement
For those who have been chanting the "it's all about community" mantra, there are some pretty shocking — but also exciting — implications to this:
1) Except in very few cases, engagement as measured by subscriptions, return visitors and comments may not be a realistic or desirable goal for your company blog.
2) The data show that corporate blogs act as superb targets for search engines. We already knew that but perhaps it's time to codify that and respond with an appropriate social media sales strategy. You probably have dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of strangers buzzing by your blog every day. Stop trying to engage them. Just get them to pause.
3) The B2B data show that prospects are almost twice as likely to stick around a B2B blog than a B2C blog. This is great news for the B2B marketer. The B2B sales cycle is long and buyers need lots of information to make decisions. While visitors may not be engaging, they do seem to be reading and coming back for more.
If you've made your living touting the engagement benefits of corporate blogging, you're probably either reaching for your oxygen mask or your flame-thrower. In any event, I'd like to hear from you in the comment section. What do you think of this re-framing of the objectives of a corporate blog?
How to sell stuff on your B2B blog without being annoying
Mar 12th
However, I think there are some appropriate and customer-friendly ways to sell things on a blog. I'm going to focus on the tricky world of B2B …
- Feature blog-only special offers and discounts — This can also build readership if you can condition customers and prospects to look to the blog site for exclusive deals.
- Post product ads somewhere on your blog — This doesn't have to be in your face and ugly. For example SAP routinely offers ads for their training programs on their blog. Why not? That's a smart thing to do and also helpful.
- Involve sales in the blog chats and comments — Why not use the engagement in the comment section of the blog to let your sales folks build connections?
- Give away something away that requires an opt-in — Many blogs feature product samples, or eBooks that allow the site to collect info for the company CRM.
- Add a feature for customers to opt-in for specials and eNewsletter — Do you have other communication touch points customers might like to know about it? An opt-in for newsletters creates a sales lead.
- Write blog topics that feature helpful uses for your products and services that encourage people to buy more stuff. That's what we want them to do. "Grow" … remember?
Any other ideas? Have you seen any great best practices out there?
How to Use the Social Web to be a Star at Work
Mar 10th
A few years ago, I was in a graduate leadership program at Carnegie Mellon University and took a class from a talented educator and author named Robert E. Kelly. Dr. Kelly had just written a book called "How to be a Star at Work." (disclosure: I am receiving no affiliate income from this or any other book!)
Honestly, I thought it was going to be one of those kick-your-feet-up, blow-off kind of classes, but it ended up being one of the most interesting sessions of the program.
We all know that certain people tend to rise to superstar level at work. They may not be smarter or harder working than others, but they have a certain "something" that seems to push them up the corporate ladder.
Dr. Kelly had a research grant to determine the factors that these high-fliers had in common. After all, if you could actually test for these factors, wouldn't that have a powerful impact on corporate recruiting and training? Turns out it wasn't that simple, but after years of investigation he eventually found the magic formula.
According to Dr. Kelly's research, one of those key characteristics of a corporate rock star is an ability to effectively network and find information quickly. Let's say you had two employees — Tom and Tammy — equally well-educated, enthusiastic and nattily-attired. But Tammy had just one advantage — she knew how to use technology to rapidly find the people and resources she needed to accomplish a task while Tom picked up a phone and started calling people in the company directory. The research showed that Tom had no hope of ever catching up and the more complex the task, the further Tammy would outshine him.
It makes a lot of sense.
I've already written about the importance of personal "technological adaptability" as an increasingly important life skill. But Dr. Kelly's research seems to indicate that expert networking skills like an ability to navigate the social web can also be a crucial differentiator in your career.
So there. Now you can explain to your spouse that all that time you're wasting on Twitter is actually a career-advancement opportunity! You may be just 140 characters away from the tweet smell of success.
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The End of The Trust Agent?
Mar 8th
It's uncommon to see much written about individual personalities on the social web — in fact it's taboo. However, it's important to occasionally look at Chris Brogan as a living social media business case study for two reasons:
1) It's hard to comment on the state of the nation without mentioning the president.
2) Chris Brogan is a pioneer. The issues and opportunities he faces are instructive to all churning in his wake. As Lisa Foote once wrote, Chris is the canary in the social media coal mine.
Chris has created a tremendous amount of value and popularity through his tireless engagement but has also stirred up more controversy than any social media personality, whether through his aggressive use of "sponsored" posts or his apparent sponsorship "flip" at last year's Consumer Electronics Show. As I said, he is plowing new ground. Sometimes you hit a rock.
But last week might have been his biggest buzz-killer when he revealed he charges $22,000 for a day of his services and then subsequently posted (and dropped) an appeal for un-paid interns for his company.
Just to be clear, I'm not in the whiney camp that thinks everything Chris does should be free. I'm probably the most capitalist, business-driven blogger out here. I like it when people make money. I like it when Chris makes money. I think he should take advantage of his white-hot celebrity, celebrate it, leverage it, and roll in the dough. I hope he can double his consulting fees.
So making money is good. But from an academic view, it would be useful to look at the "how" — the dramatic shift (or perhaps evolution) in strategy that is enabling Chris to become a money-making machine.
For years, Chris has built his core brand promise on:
- Passionate audience-building through authentic helpfulness
- Relentless nurturing of that audience through tireless engagement
- Putting the audience above personal business needs
- Never, ever "selling"
In one video from last summer, he literally screamed at an audience "This is NOT about YOU and your STUPID COMPANY!" That effectively sums up his mantra, and the "brand" Chris built around himself.
Around the time of his book release last year, Chris flipped this philosophy upside down and took steps to aggressively monetize his audience. He explained this change by saying that he had been giving stuff away for a long time and that it was time to make money. Selling of his products, services, companies, book, affiliate links, and paid sponsors became a common theme. He transformed into the social web's most visible and highly-paid pitch-man, the Billy Mays of blogging.
Chris also increasingly put himself at the forefront of his topics, including video documentation of a day in the life of himself, photos of himself with near-celebrities, announcements of his new business ventures, and detailed explanations of how hard he works to achieve his success. As you would expect, some readers expressed disappointment with these changes, and they were sometimes categorized as "haters" instead of "creators" and implored to "get over it."
In other words, Chris has disassociated himself from that core brand promise to his audience.
In the business world, this would be tantamount to Disney opening a Tia Tequila-themed ride, or Nike doing a fitness cross-promotion with McDonald's. When a brand becomes incongruent by building a reputation communicating one thing and then executing another, it can be a recipe for disaster.
In the near-term, Chris and his ubiquity seem to have a limitless ability to capitalize on the goodwill of his audience (heck, loyal customers even bought Toyota cars after the first recall). From a traditional business perspective, one might predict that if Chris doesn't practice what he preaches and take steps to return to his core competencies, his brand and his ability to monetize will be increasingly vulnerable.
The furor over the posts last week were not the first signs that people have noticed the new Capitalist Chris. If it persists, negative outbursts from loyal fans might eventually call attention to the problem with his sponsors and erode his brand and his value.
Or will it? Another possibility is that Chris is going to be just fine losing some — or even most — of his core followers because he is developing a new audience of corporate folks who don't care what his brand promise WAS as long as he can deliver results to their bottom line NOW.
In any event, the Trust Agent as we knew him is probably coming to an end as he transitions from social media folk hero to mainstream business consultant. It will be fascinating to watch the results.
What do you think about this strategy shift?
What are the risks of jeopardizing his core audience for launching a new stage in his career?
With the new demands of the business and publishing worlds, is it possible for Chris to be successful at holding on to both constituencies? If so, how?


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Lil Wayne Will Sandpaper Your Eardrums On Behind The Music
The interview clip above was shot for Lil Wayne's Behind the Music (kicking off the show's new season on Thursday at 10/9c). If the story of how and why he learned to play the guitar doesn't mesmerize you, his voice surely will. We've got uncharted levels of grit here. Play this in your home, and look forward to a life without splinters.
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VH1 Hip-Hop Honors 2009 Lineup Announced!
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The sixth annual VH1 Hip Hop Honors show will commemorate the 25th anniversary of Def Jam Records, as talents from across all artistic genres come together to celebrate this significant milestone in American hip-hop music. Eminem, Young Jeezy, Rick Ross, Fabolous, Ludacris, DMX, Mary J. Blige, Redman, The Roots, Method Man, ONYX, Public Enemy, Warren G, Kid Rock, Chris Rock, Jimmy Fallon, Brett Ratner, Trey Songz, Ja Rule, Gym Class Heroes, and Scarface are scheduled to show up and show out to celebrate the label that served a catalyst for this American musical phenomenon.
VH1 Hip Hop Honors 2009 will be taped from the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) Howard Gilman Opera House in Brooklyn, New York. 30 Rock?s Tracy Morgan returns as host for the 3rd year, as he will be joined many of hip-hop biggest luminaries. The VH1 Hip Hop Honors 2009 broadcast will premiere on VH1 on Tuesday, October 13 at 9PM ET/PT.*
Def Jam has launched the careers of some of the biggest names in music history and has inspired other emerging labels and artists. Special homage will be paid to the architects of the label, Rick Rubin, Russell Simmons, Kevin Liles, Lyor Cohen, Julie Greenwald, Shawn ?Jay-Z? Carter and Antonio ?L.A.? Reid (Chairman Island Def Jam Music Group). Presenters and performers honor the history and the legacy of Def Jam Records through never-seen-before interviews, archival footage and special musical performances of some of Def Jam?s greatest hits. It promises to be a night that will showcase how Def Jam came and remains to be one of the premier record labels of hip-hop music.
Hip Hop fans can go to HipHop.VH1.com now to comment on this year?s line-up and to weigh in on what they?d like to hear at this year?s celebration. Additionally, on Monday, September 14, VH1 will launch the full show site at HipHop.VH1.com with artist profiles, exclusive online programming, show information and more. Additional VH1.com and VH1 Mobile efforts for VH1 Hip Hop Honors will be announced in the coming weeks.
VH1 Hip Hop Honors is executive produced by Lee Rolontz for VH1 and Jac Benson for Blacjac Entertainment. Louis J. Horvitz will direct.? Nelson George and Fab 5 Freddie are co-executive producers.
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These will be featured in a special section of hiphop.vh1.com. Submit your list of top sites to us at firstname.lastname@example.com by September 10 . The nominees will be announced and voting will begin on September 14.
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Recently the Legislature's Joint Committee on Natural Resources (NRC) heard a bill (L.D. 1157) that was submitted in response to a growing concern from the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), and others, who believe and testified that the presence of hazardous chemicals in our schools are a significant health threat to our students and other building occupants. Since 1991, Maine Department of Education (MDOE) has had rules (MDOE Regulation 161) that govern the identification, purchase, storage, and disposal of hazardous chemicals in schools. Due to a variety of factors, application of these rules has been inconsistent and uneven. In response to L.D. 1157, the NRC directed MDOE and DEP to create a document of understanding, in consultation with the Department of Labor and Department of Agriculture, that would ensure that the provisions of MDOE Regulation 161 are enforced to mitigate the presence of hazardous chemicals in schools and to provide an ongoing program of compliance. In short, the Department has been directed, in cooperation with DEP, to enforce the provisions of MDOE Regulation 161.
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This 25-minute theatrical marvel uses a simple wind turbine to create a vortex in which plastic bag characters evolve, responding to the movement of the air. Originally commissioned by the Natural History Museum of Nantes, Prelude to the Afternoon of a Foehn (a pun that refers to a mountain wind) transforms simple plastic bags into charming, graceful characters. Manipulated by the flow of air, the plastic bags swirl and twirl to Claude Debussy's most famous ballet work, Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun. February 14-15 and 19-21. Ticketed event. Visit website link for show times.
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Posted 08 March 2011 - 11:17 AM
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Posted 08 March 2011 - 11:28 AM
Have to say I would love it if someone was. Able to sort out a chaange to the kernel to allow booting to cwm via a key press
Its the bootloader that needs hacking for this, not the kernel
Posted 09 March 2011 - 09:14 AM
HTC One (m7) on Tele2
ROM: ViperOne 7.0.0 (Sense 6.0)
Android: 4.4.3
Kernel: 6.09.401.5 CL366813 release-keys
Bootloader: 1.57.0000
HTC One X (endeavoru) on KPN
ROM: ViperX 4.1.1 (Sense 5.0)
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Kernel: 4.18.401.2 CL231174 release-keys
Bootloader: 1.39.0000
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Posted 09 March 2011 - 01:59 PM
Given the portability of the vega combined with the availability of music on sites like Grooveshark it's a great portable jukebox in the house, but getting the audio through to my home sound systems is more tricky. My audio system is connected to a media player (popcornhour) so ideally something on the vega that streamed to a shoutcast/icecast type stream would be brilliant.
Bluetooth is one option but as it doesn't play nice with wifi that's kind of out of the equation.
Posted 09 March 2011 - 07:26 PM
I would like to see a USB mode switcher that doesn't require us to flash a boot image and doesn't need a reboot...
One asks and one shalt receive
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Posted 11 March 2011 - 05:04 AM
Should be not too difficult, just a widget for the status and sending "echo 'set28h' > /proc/gpio" to switch camera on and "echo 'set28l' > /proc/gpio" to switch it off again.
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Posted 11 March 2011 - 01:06 PM
EDIT: I would also like to add to this: A gamepad mode - That turns the screen of your phone into a gamepad (with just a d-pad / analogue stick type thing and buttons) for playing emulators
EDIT2: Also, since the Accelerometer on the Vega isn't very good, it'd be great if the accelerometer on the input phone worked as a controller. Then you could play tilt/racing games with your phone as the controller
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Posted 12 March 2011 - 09:51 PM
Its the bootloader that needs hacking for this, not the kernel
In that case i'd love to see a tweak to the bootloader that allowed booting to CWM through keypress!
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An apricot is a small sweet fruit with a golden orange color. A ripe apricot can be recognized by its fairly firm skin, and it will be plump and juicy when it is at its best. The apricot has a delicate aroma ( and that is what I love best!) and is an excellent source of Vitamins A (beta-carotene) and C. Apricots are also a good source of iron, potassium, phosphorus and calcium.
The apricot originally came from China. Cuttings from the apricot made their way from the Persian Empire to the Mediterranean. Credit can be given to the Spanish explorers for the introduction of the apricot to the New World; the fruit flourished in the gardens of Spanish missions in California. The first major production of apricots was recorded in 1792 in an area of San Francisco.
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It was a good morning
The birds were chirping
I was silently yawning
I felt great...
But as I opened my eyes a sudden flash of purple zoomed past my eyes and darted under my bed
Before I had the time to wonder what in all creation just darted into my room like a bullet out of a gun...
....I figured it out
"Ichigo, have you seen Rukia?" Renji asked as he came down the hall and looked into my room
I shook my head with a grunt and he sighed, dashing back down the hall
I WAS telling the truth
I hadn't SEEN Rukia
I hadn't SEEN anything at all
I hopped off of my bed and slowly lifted the bed skirt up
And there she was, Rukia Kuchiki, still in her PJs, backed up against the wall under my bed
I lifted an eyebrow and grunted quietly at her
"Shhh!" she demanded of me
I glanced at the open door and closed it with my foot, lowering myself onto my stomach so that we were closer to eye-level
I had already been Rukia's PET for around a year but everytime I thought I had her all figured out she went and did something weird again....
"I'm hiding, don't tell anyone I'm here," she wispered to me
I grunted questionably again and she sighed, glancing at the door and emerging from under my bed
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"I.... I just can't let anyone see me today,"
I frowned at her and crossed my arms over my chest in the authoritive way I would every now and then
Her ears slicked back and she stared at me with a hurt face
"You promise not to make fun of me?"
I wanted to roll my eyes at her crazy assumption but I fought the urge and purred re-assuringly, nuzzling her cheek lightly
She sighed lightly and looked at me with her beautifull, purple eyes
"I.... I have a major needle phobia..." she muttered
Then I remembered.... Rukia's birthday was last week... and as I've learned by living in the Kuchiki household for a year
The week after someone's birthday they get their physical exams, it was a surprise to me when my birthday rolled around
Considering that Byakuya, Yoruichi, and Rukia's birthdays had all passed and Renji's came after mine
I growled quietly, wondering how she had gotten past this little issue before
"Well the last time I had to have a shot I was ten, and back then I was only a child and I didn't really have much of a choice, I screamed and cried but there was no way to prevent it,"
My eyebrows raised
Was that normal...?
"But this year Brother wants me to get blood work and a flu shot since the flu is so bad this year...." she mused
So far I wasn't on her side or Byakuya's
I hadn't researched vaccinations so how was I supposed to pick sides?
After all needles didn't bother me
"I mean I faint just SEEING a needle, even if it isn't meant for me...." she muttered
I frowned, about to convince her that it wouldn't be so bad and to go through with it anyway
But she put one of her delicate little hands on my nee and leaned over a little
Her soft, bunny ears were slicked back and her tiny nose twitched slightly in that very bunny-like way
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She said in a quiet, pittifull voice
My brain melted and my primal instinct to keep her safe shot through my veins like adrenaline.... at that point I didn't care who was right or who was wrong....
And later that day I discovered I had been roped into this and was stuck trying to figure out how to convince Byakuya to let Rukia go free....


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