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PULLMAN — With the severe economic slump, the popular perception of Washington State's proposed, dramatic "Phase 3" remodel to its football facility is that it might be deader than the Cougars' prospects when USC came to town last fall.
Not so, say WSU's athletic executives, who are exploring whether the downturn might just provide a prime opportunity to take advantage of an accompanying drop in construction costs.
"You hear out there that if you can build, it's the best time to build if you can get financing," says WSU athletic director Jim Sterk.
Phase 3 is the key element of a comprehensive, long-term upgrade of Martin Stadium that would add 2,200 seats to the facility's north side, but more importantly, would stabilize WSU's revenue through the use of luxury suites, loge boxes and club seats.
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As recently as September, all systems were go on the project, which was to have begun in the first half of 2009 and been completed by the 2010 football season. In fact, artist's renderings of the remodel were prominent in the 2008 football media guide and recruits were wooed partly on the basis of that vision.
Barely more than two months later, however, WSU had scuttled the time frame because of the looming recession and what Sterk called a "nonexistent" bond market.
Now WSU might not wait until the recession subsides before moving ahead with its renovation.
Late last year, what was viewed as a $40 million project was to be financed with $16 million in donations and pledges, plus revenue bonds. WSU is now reassessing what funding model might fit if it built the facility at a reduced cost.
"Some of my alums have sent articles that Washington State DOT [Department of Transportation] projects in January, February and March have been 29 percent below estimate, 26 percent, 22 percent," Sterk says. "That's a pretty significant savings if you're talking about a $40 million project."
"We think there's an opportunity there," says John Johnson, WSU associate athletic director and its chief fundraiser. "It may be, oddly enough, a time when that project becomes more affordable."
Sterk says WSU has a design-and-build contract with Graham Construction and Management of Spokane, which he says will seek revised bids from subcontractors. If that number is favorable, WSU officials would then go to the school's financial experts and discuss what might be necessary in donations and premium seats, in concert with revenue bonds.
Johnson says WSU has about 100 donors lined up to contribute to the renovation project, and pledges have stayed relatively firm despite the economy.
"We've had some people say, 'I'm committed to it, can I restructure my pledge?' " Johnson acknowledged. "All in all, people have stayed pretty close to their pledged payments."
The project would have 18 luxury suites priced at $35,000 to $50,000 annually. Loge boxes — clusters of four or six semiprivate seats — are $9,000 to $15,000 a year. Club seats would go for $1,700 to $2,000 annually.
Sterk issued a cautionary note, saying, "There are a lot of ifs in there." But the project is seen as necessary for WSU's economic stability, especially with two other Northwest schools, Oregon and Oregon State, having done major upgrades in recent years to their stadiums.
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Former Vice President Al Gore was on "The Early Show" this morning to discuss his documentary about global warming, "An Inconvenient Truth," and his political future with co-host Harry Smith. The former Vice President, or as Harry Smith referred to him, this "road warrior for the environment," claimed there was no reason to debate the existence of global warming, "And, I've been trying to tell this story for 30 years, Harry, and the debate among the scientists is over. There's no more debate, we face a planetary emergency." Harry Smith acknowledged that global warming is not a universally accepted fact, but also charged that it's the conservative media who don't accept the premise, "But if I look at more elements, more conservative elements of the media, I would say there is a debate going on..." Mr. Gore responded by comparing conservatives who question the science supporting global warming to those who question the moon landing or the shape of the Earth. Harry Smith did not question this conclusion, instead he just interjected "right." In fact, this sounded less like an interview, and more like a discussion on the Senate floor between 2 liberal Democrats who agree with each other.

Former Vice President Gore, if not currently a candidate for political office, is certainly pushing a political issue, that is the earth is getting warmer and humans are to blame. He ought to be asked tough questions. If pollution is causing global warming, does he think about the current prices of gas here in America? Is it too expensive, or compared to Europe , is it too cheap? Or, Gore constantly promotes the Kyoto treaty, but nation's like Germany, Canada, and Great Britain aren't meeting their goals, so does Kyoto really have a purpose. Or even if these industrialized nation's meet their goals, but China and India max out their pollutants, there has been a zero sum benefit, but at the cost of industrialized economies, so is Kyoto worth it? But, does Smith ask him any question that is even remotely tough or probing? No. Instead, he seems to suck up to Gore on the global warming issue. What follows, are three of Smith's facilitators, and I refer to them as facilitators because they aren't really questions, to illustrate my point:

"And, I want you to talk very specifically about some of the things you say in this movie. Because you have the charts, and here is the temperature going up and up and up beyond the normal sort of abberational changes of the history of the planet. And as that goes up, there seems to be a cataclysmic conclusion as a result."

After Gore's response, Smith follows up:

"And if that happens, if these, if the ice caps melt, if Greenland were, were to melt, as you say in the film, we look back at history and what's happened on this planet before, it literally changes everything."

Gore responds and Smith inquires:

"I'm watching you in this film, you look so comfortable in your own skin. You look like Al Gore in full, as it were. Is there something about this time in your life that you feel like you can say what you want to say, do what you want to do, sort of unencumbered by thoughts of political office?"

Gore goes on to claim his movie is an action movie, because he wants the audience to take action. The notion that it's an action film provokes laughter from Smith, but again gets a suck up response from him:

"Well the box office receipts would indicate that it's an action movie, you did better per screening than almost anything that's come out this week."

Yes Harry, the box office receipts would show that Mr. Gore's film did very well in Los Angeles and New York City, where it was shown, but then again, they are two of the bluest areas in the country, so that seems logical.

What is illogical, is why Smith would go out of his way to assist Gore in promoting the threat of global warming without a single challenging question. Unless, as Smith pointed out, it is the conservative media that raises questions about global warming, so does that mean it's the liberal media who helps sell the idea?

Transcript of the segment follows.

Harry Smith: "Former Vice President Al Gore is passionate about global warming. He's convinced that it's a real and present danger to the planet. Ever since losing the heated White House race back in 2000, he has devoted his life to spreading the word."

Al Gore, Former Vice President: "I am Al Gore, I used to be the next President of the United States of America."

Harry Smith: "And that's the funny line from a very serious lecture that has become Al Gore's mission."

Al Gore: "The arctic is experiencing faster melting. If this were to go, sea level world wide would go up 20 feet."

Harry Smith: "Since his still controversial loss to George Bush in the 2000 election, Gore has recast himself as a road warrior for the environment. Traveling from town to town, country to country with a message of warning, a message that's now been made into a movie."

Al Gore: "Here's Manhattan, the World Trade Center memorial would be under water."

Harry Smith: "Out of the shadows of yesterday's news, Al Gore has suddenly emerged as the comeback kid. Thousands have downloaded bootlegged video from his recent surprise appearance on 'Saturday Night Live.'"

Craig Crawford, Congressional Quarterly, Columnist: "It started with a 'Saturday Night Live' appearance, I think, and then this movie that he's done on Global Warming. Al Gore is somewhat vindicated in the minds of a lot of Democratic voters as George Bush has become so unpopular."

Harry Smith: "Will Hillary Clinton soon have a former Vice President to contend with on the 2008 Presidential campaign trail. That's a good question. And Vice President Al Gore joins us this morning as you rolled your eyes during the last paragraph of that little taped piece there. Let's get that business out of the way first and foremost."

Al Gore: "I rolled my eyes off the record."

Harry Smith: "Any way, shape, I've read that you've told some of your old supporters 'please throw your support someplace else, I am not running for President.' Unequivocally not running for President?"

Al Gore: "I don't have any plans to run. I'm not thinking about running. I don't expect to ever be a candidate again. I haven't made so called 'Shermanesque' statement that for the rest of my life I'll never ever think about that. But that, that exception is just my own internal shifting of gears. I'm not trying to be coy or anything. I am involved in a campaign, but it's not for a candidacy, it's for a cause."

Harry Smith: "Let's talk about this movie, because I saw it yesterday. I remember when you wrote the book, which is almost 20 years ago."

Al Gore: "Yeah, well 14 years ago. And I have a new book out now, 'An Inconvenient Truth,' same title as the movie, by Rodell. And I've been trying to tell this story for 30 years, Harry. And the debate among the scientists is over. There's no more debate. We face a planetary emergency, and the phrase sounds shrill, but it is an accurate description of the climate crisis that we have to confront and solve."

Harry Smith: "But, if I look at more elements, more conservative elements of the press, I would say there is a debate going on, because you know they say that you're just trying to create this kind of 'boogeyman' to help slow down the economy and everything else. How do you respond to that?"

Al Gore: "(chuckles) Well, I guess in some quarters there's still a debate over whether the moon landing was staged in a movie lot in Arizona. Or, whether the earth is flat instead of round."

Harry Smith: "Right."

Al Gore: "And there may be some media reports that are constructed in a way that says on the one hand, on the other hand. But, really and truly, global warming is in that category. There is no more scientific debate among serious people who've looked at the evidence."

Harry Smith: "And, I want you to talk very specifically about some of the things you say in this movie. Because you have the charts, and here is the temperature going up and up and up beyond the normal sort of aberrational changes of the history of the planet. And as that goes up, there seems to be a cataclysmic conclusion as a result."

Al Gore: "Yeah, what, what makes this hard to absorb is that our relationship as human beings to the planet we live on has been radically transformed just in the last century or so. We've quadrupled our population, our technologies have become thousands of times stronger, and the combination has created this collision between civilization as we're now pursuing it and the ecology of the planet. And the most vulnerable part of the planet's ecological system is this very thin shell of atmosphere around the earth. And. we're now filling that up with so much global warming pollution, that it's trapping a lot more of the sun's heat inside the atmosphere, melting almost all the mountain glaciers, the North Pole is starting to melt. It's threatening to change the patterns of wind currents and ocean currents, and where the droughts get stronger."

Harry Smith: "And if that happens, if these, if the ice caps melt, if Greenland were, were to melt, as you say in the film, we look back at history and what's happened on this planet before, it literally changes everything."

Al Gore: "Yeah, that's right and the climate system usually moves very slowly, so slowly we can't even perceive it. But in the ancient history of the Earth, there have been times when there've been sudden shifts. And, it's like poking a wild animal with a stick, it may wake up. And, the climate can with so much pollution, flip into a different pattern that would not be sustainable for us."

Harry Smith: "I'm watching you in this film, you look so comfortable in your own skin. You look like Al Gore in full, as it were. Is there something about this time in your life that you feel like you can say what you want to say, do what you want to do, sort of unencumbered by thoughts of political office?"

Al Gore: "Uh, well, you know, I think there's a lot about the political system that, that I don't like. But, I respect those who are in it. And, they have an obligation on this issue. Where I, myself, am concerned, it is a luxury to be able to focus just on a passionate expression of what the truth of this is all about. The movie 'An Inconvenient Truth' is not political, uh it is, it's factual. And it is designed to help change the minds of the American people by putting before everybody, in the movie and in the book, a umm, a clearer and I hope entertaining, description of exactly what our circumstances are. And I see it as an action movie, because it's designed to--"

Harry Smith: <laughter>

Al Gore: "--to get the audience--"

Harry Smith: "Well the box office receipts would indicate that it's an action movie, you did better per screening then almost anything that's come out this week."

Al Gore: "Well, I'm pleased by that, but it's designed to get the audience to take action. We really do have to cross a tipping point beyond which the politicians in both parties will take this and go with it."

Harry Smith: "Mr. Vice President, great to see you. Thank you so much, do appreciate it."

Al Gore Promotes His Global Warming Theories on CBS, No Questions Asked (Literally)
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The Un-Tapped Value of Employee Social Capital
Oct 23rd
By Konstanze Alex Brown, {grow} Community Member
Why should any business owner like social media? Because social media connects people – employees to other employees, employees to customers, business and IT decision makers and vice versa, customers to customers, and so on.
Let's forget the public giants, Facebook and Twitter, for a moment and focus on the social media technologies that connect employees of large companies to each other, inside the company. In this scenario, social paradise is when your social technologies (think company blog and micro-blog), are adopted by your employees and help form social capital among 10s or 100s of thousands of them on a global scale, like at my company, Dell.
Why should you care? Social capital (really not an oxymoron!) is a critical fuel for corporate knowledge sharing, innovation and growth. What company does not want that?
Let's dig in a bit.
Social capital is best explained as:
The benefits an individual (and by extension the company) derives from the network connections to others who might have what you need – mostly knowledge or information.
When you have a problem to solve or you begin a new project, what's your first step? Consult the corporate knowledge base? Not so much. Ask a colleague who you know has knowledge and experience? Much more likely! That benefit of getting the answer from someone in your network is called social capital.
Social capital is not owned by any one individual, it cannot be taken away; it is inherent in the network connections among individuals. The bigger your network, the better your access to social capital. In a large company, the only feasible way to be part of a global network is via social communication technologies.
The value of internal social media use
Beginning in 2008 (yes, the very early days of anything related to social media for business) I conducted several long term studies at Dell that examined corporate blog and micro-blog use, specifically the impact and value of these social communication platforms on organizational social capital and knowledge sharing.
This was an important study because the impact of social technologies on organizational social capital has received limited attention, possibly because of the less than evident connection to measurable economic value (think ROI) and the newness of the tools for corporate use at the time.
This is definitely changing now. Social ROI has become a hot buzz word in the industry and corporations are finally figuring out how to apply social analytics and really derive actionable insights from social media conversations.
But, most of those studies have focused on external conversations. While internal communication has received much more attention over the past years, a true measure for social ROI on the inside has yet to emerge.
And there really is something to be had: Findings of my long term studies indicate that the corporate blog and micro-blog (examples are Yammer and SFDC's Chatter) can lead to:
- a shared understanding of organizational roles,
- increased sense of group cohesiveness,
- improved work processes,
- higher efficiency and productivity
- fostering of professional and personal ties between employees
… all leading to a company's increased ability to innovate because of increased organizational social capital.
We need to embrace this opportunity
Of course it all starts with us, the leaders in large organizations. WE make "social" happen, WE share knowledge, WE innovate, WE build social networks and there's a scorecard in there somewhere! But, to do all of that, we need support in the form of technology, training, and trust from our company.
My focus is on raising awareness of the often untapped potential of enabling employees with social media technologies. Building internal social networks and communities lead to social capital and exciting business benefits.
If you're interested in learning more about the value of building internal social capital, here are some additional resources:
- Assessing the Value of Corporate Blogs: A Social Capital Perspective
- The Social Body of Knowledge: Nurturing organizational Social Capital via Social Media-Based Communities of Practice.
Dr. Konstanze Alex-Brown (@Konstanze, LinkedIn) leads Global Communications Social Media strategy at Dell. Prior to that, Konnie spent six years in executive, technology and innovation communications at Dell. She has co-authored several peer reviewed articles on the value of internal social media from a social capital perspective and has presented at various academic and industry conferences. Her research focus is on corporate communication using social media technologies and organizational social capital. To read more of Konstanze's work, check out her personal blog.
Can Marketers Predict and Measure Influence, Down to the Dollar?
Oct 22nd
By Kerry Gorgone, {grow} Contributing Columnist
Social scoring and ROI are two hot topics for marketers, and right now they're largely separate considerations. But what if you could know which people were truly influential in terms of driving revenue for your brand?
Instead of guessing based on follower counts or shares, what if you could dig deep into customer data and predict which customers would drive more spending through social media? Marketers have been wondering about this for years. In his 2012 book Return on Influence, Mark Schaefer predicted that companies would seek to assign dollar values to influencers.
Even then, Schaefer saw influence as having a direct and measurable impact on the bottom line. "As companies begin to connect the dots between online influence and offline activities, real dollar values can be placed on customers and the demonstrated impact of their influence."
The Crowded Landscape
The options abound for enterprises interested in a predictive analytics tool: with so many vendors in the space, it's easy to find comprehensive articles like this one that compare the features and limitations of each possibility.
Major players like IBM, Dell and Oracle are facing increased competition from start-ups claiming to have cracked the code for measuring and predicting social influence on revenue.
Newcomer Ninja Metrics, for instance, superimposes purchase data over a customer's social graph. Their algorithm purportedly enables companies to see who influences whom, and specifically how much money people spend as a result of their influential friends' purchases.
Blue Yonder, another contender, has a team of scientists powering its software, which pairs predictive analytics with automation to create "automated, high-performance forecasts for buying behavior." If that sounds like a risky proposition, that's because it is. Given the wildly variable nature of consumer psychology and behavior, any solution offering full automation must be carefully scrutinized.
Although automation in this area may be fraught with risk, predictive modeling does provide some potentially powerful data. Armed with accurate predictions of consumer behavior, companies could drive customer acquisition and retention, increase consumer spending, and reduce churn. But any tool is of questionable benefit unless its predictions can be tested against actual results.
How does it work?
By examining spending correlations between users, predictive analytics software determines who drives others to make purchases. Depending on the tool, companies can parse the data extremely fine to figure out exactly how much revenue users bring in because of their social interactions.
Using analytics, it may be possible to adjust the lifetime value of existing customers upward (or downward) based on the amount of money they bring in above and beyond their own spending.
But according to Dmitri Williams, CEO of Ninja Metrics, the classic big spenders (or "whales") aren't necessarily the same people who drive social spending.
"Classic whales may spend for enjoyment or conspicuous consumption," explains Williams. "That's different from people who are extremely tied in with their friends, and spend money to enjoy their company. "
With "social whales," spending is about the relationship. "They don't necessarily wind up spending a lot for that," says Williams, "but they cause a lot of people to join them and share in the experience with them: there's a very different sociology to the spending pattern."
Is this really new?
Start-ups often tout their analytics and modeling tools as revolutionary, but predictive modeling has been around for 15 years or more, according to Burke Powers, a senior managing consultant and practice lead for the IBM Business Analytics Solution Services team.
"It's the same idea as when ice cream parlors used to give coupons to cheerleaders," says Powers. "The cheerleaders had the social influence to bring their friends in, turn the parlor into a cool place, and drive business. Predictive modeling uses the same process, only now it's online."
Businesses have long tried to use social influence to drive sales, and they've never had more data at their disposal. "The impact of social influence on selling has been widely studied," says Powers. "Marketers can compile full psychological profiles, do product profiling, create complex, actionable clusters of data—all this data can be added to the social graph and used to predict customer behavior, so the technology is there."
Social Scoring vs. Quantifiable Influence
In order to drive actual revenue, predictive modeling and influence measurement would need to go well beyond social scoring services like Klout, Kred and PeerIndex.
"[These services] assume influence,'" Williams observes, "based on who's being retweeted the most. But that's not anything you can really prove. As a scientist, you can't publish that."
The key, according to Williams, is to think about the friendships themselves, rather than the relationship between the brand and the customer. "People enjoy products and services together," he explains, "so what's really important is their relationship: if you can reinforce that, you can sell more."
The question, as Powers sees it, is less about identifying "social whales," and more about determining what kind of influence these people have. Can they influence others to come to a business (and stay)? Use a product or game? Influence them to buy? And how can companies channel influence into sales? Without the ability to act on this insight, companies are unlikely to see the value, according to Powers.
Can you measure influence?
Theoretically, predictive analytics could revolutionize marketing.
Marketers could target "social whales" based on quantifiable, provable influence, identify which key users are at risk to stop using the product or service, and test the impact of win-back messaging, marketing campaigns, coupons and other tactics all the way through to the individual spend.
So why don't more companies use predictive modeling? Because it has the potential to be creepy if used without thinking about how customers will react, explains Powers.
"The technology exists, but many companies are still coming to terms with the complexity and working out how to implement in a customer-friendly way," he says.
Essentially, with enough data, it's possible to predict influence, but you might creep out the influencers or those being influenced. Powers's prediction: "There are going to be a lot of mistakes made before best practices are well understood."
The mystery of "which 50% of your marketing works" could finally be solved, but can businesses effectively use this knowledge without being ham-fisted about it?
What do you think? Can you measure influence to such a granular degree, and is it worth the cost of collecting the data you'd need to power this type of algorithm?
Kerry O'Shea Gorgone is a writer, lawyer, speaker and educator. She's also Instructional Design Manager, Enterprise Training, at MarketingProfs. Kerry hosts the weekly Marketing Smarts podcast. Find her on Google+ and Twitter.
Mobility, mobile commerce, and the worst apps in the world
Oct 21st
It seems at the end of every year, pundits predict that "this is the year of MOBILE!"
And perhaps it is finally true.
But as my podcasting partner in crime Tom Webster writes in his new book The Mobile Commerce Revolution: Business Success in a Wireless World (with co-author Tim Hayden), it is mobility, not just "mobile", that is changing the world.
You are not going to want to miss this insightful discussion on the new Marketing Companion podcast about Tom's new book. You also do not want to miss our discussion of the world's worst mobile apps, which caused us to crack up so much we could not even speak!
But we do eventually get to the meaty stuff like …
- The difference between mobile technology and mobility
- Creating an app today is more about sociology and psychology than IT
- How to adjust organizationally to the commerce revolution?
- Why you should not be wedded to technology
- What does a mobile commerce team look like today?
- Why many large companies are failing at mobile commerce
- The importance of removing institutional barriers to create meaningful apps
- How would a small business start creating a meaningful mobile app?
- Personalization versus privacy
- A mobile strategy based on poop. Yes. It's true.
Yes, we cover a lot of ground in just 30 minutes.
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Social selling, social business, social employees and other hype
Oct 20th
It's always interesting to see the parade of buzzwords march through the old blog reader. Just reading headlines day by day is a pretty good way to watch the waves of social media buzz crash on the shore!
Here are three "trends" that I believe are severely over-hyped. I am NOT saying they are without value. I am saying that a lot of the buzz is being generated by over-simplified guru-speak that is out of step with business reality.
1. The social enterprise
Let's say you walk into France one day and announce that they need to be more like Russia. No more wine and cheese. From now on, it's vodka and caviar.
That change is not going to take place, at least not for a long, long time. I submit to you that it is no less difficult changing the culture of a large, established company than changing the culture of a large, established country. And for most companies, becoming a "social enterprise" will take a significant cultural change.
The curse of Zappos
The biggest mistake the field of social media marketing ever made was elevating Zappos to a god-like state of social enterprise nirvana. To be like Zappos … well … you need to BE Zappos! Not many companies have that kind of company culture or leadership, do they?
On paper, the idea of integrating social business into every aspect of the enterprise is intoxicating, especially for people chasing consulting dollars. But it is probably the hardest thing a company can do and at the end of the day, this is not a marketing issue, it is an HR/change management issue.
I had the pleasure of working with an amazing team at one of America's biggest companies trying to move to "social enterprise." These folks followed a model path to cultural change. They invested in training. They incorporated rewards for individuals and departments leading the change. They had metrics in place aligning their work to corporate objectives.
Crash and burn
In a sudden corporate realignment, the team leading the change effort started reporting to a new VP, a long-time employee steeped in the traditional company culture. In less than a month, the social enterprise effort was disbanded. Two years of investment … dead. Back to business as usual.
It didn't matter if it was the right thing to do. It didn't matter if it was making progress. The company culture usually overwhelms good intentions in the end. To truly make the change, the effort has to be actively sponsored by the CEO and I have seen cases where even that is not a guarantee of success.
"Social business" sounds good in theory but it is very difficult to achieve in practice.
2. Social employees
Another attractive idea is unleashing the power of employees to serve as social media advocates of your brand. Again, not a concept without merit, but a "trend" that is over-hyped as low-hanging fruit within reach of any organization.
One of the iconic beacons for social employees is the company Whole Foods. I recently attended a talk featuring one of their business leaders who illustrated the practical limitations of socially activating their work force:
1) The majority of their employees are young, minimum-wage workers who may only be in the job a year or less. Is the high cost of training and monitoring these employees worth the potential risk to the brand?
2) Even skilled employees were found to be abusing the system. They might be posting company content on a social channel but then staying on the channel during business hours to chat with friends and family. The challenge of preventing abuse was overwhelming and expensive, the executive said.
There is probably no company with a more social-friendly culture than Whole Foods. But even in this case there are practical limits to what might make good business sense.
Activating employees is far more complex than training or "trusting" them to do the right thing.
3. Social selling
I was recently brought in to help support a "social selling" strategy for a Fortune 100 brand. They had already spent thousands of dollars of social selling training but saw no results and little adoption over a year. In fact, their sales were declining.
I dug into the data and conducted employee interviews to identify the problem.
Sales professionals told me they never bought into the program, citing the fact that their customers were passive social media consumers, if they were on there at all.
Turns out they were right. Research showed their competitors were dramatically increasing their spending on personal selling and it was working. What was going on here?
The surgeons strongly bought based on face-to-face relationships. The data confirmed this, the employees confirmed this, the competitors were capitalizing on that, but the division was too eager to drink the social selling Kool-aid and wasted a lot of time and money.
Like any change in strategy, start with the data, not a tactic.
Now in case you're skimming this article, I want to emphasize again that there is vast potential in all of these ideas. But these atre usually risky, complicated change efforts and that reality is grossly under-represented by the fluffiness on the blogosphere right now.
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Bates was shot three times with a .25 automatic pistol, in the arm, side and head.
Three witnessess, Sasha Terrell, 19, Katherine Evans, 18, and Paige Hartness, 18, gave signed statements about the events that led to probable cause warrants being issued out of Fulton County for Ray's arrest.
The three girls were unharmed.
Ray was also the driver of the vehicle which turned into the path of two motorcycles on Highway 63, May 17. Two persons were killed and two were seriously injured.
Ray is currently being held in the Independence County Juvenile Detention Facility.
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Ah airports = who needs them?? We all need them1
Juliet, fabulous little page about the airport. We once came along the airport by bike and also took a few planespotter photos.
Lovely airport updates!
I must admit I am an airport-lover too :) this page is pretty funny! Thanks for visiting my HP and glad you liked Mr. Strauss :)
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Hahaha tawang tawa ako sa Travelougues mo...a lot of funny pictures...ang galing mo talagang mag capture ng moments!!!!! Idol!
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Later this year, the Vatican is expected to begin an apostolic visitation of U.S. seminaries. The visitation comes in the wake of the clergy sexual-abuse scandal, a scandal some in the Vatican attribute to the alleged lack of discipline or worse in our seminaries.
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Skip to comments.CALLS TO END CLINTON'S 1993 BAN ON GUNS ON MILITARY BASES
Posted on 09/17/2013 12:14:05 PM PDT by pansgold
It take a gun to stop a crazy with a gun and until someone gets there and locates the killer, the madman will continue to kill.
The FBI is now saying yesterday's shootings were caused by a lone gunman armed with a single shotgun. The murderer armed himself with the handgun from an armed security guard had shot but there was no AR-15 used as incorrectly reported.he s
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Why didn't Bush do something about this EO when he was President?
Greatly limited ROEs and disarmed on military bases.
Perhaps we should call our troops the the Disarmed Forces.
There were no shootings on military bases.
I don't understand why there aren't armed guards on military bases, it's a frigging MILITARY BASE. Why aren't there guns?
Their job involves weapons ALREADY, and we're always told this is a NEW type of war in which there is no "front", per se.
And so there they are —TARGETS.
And yet no way to defend us, indeed, no way even to defend THEMSELVES.
Do the feds still run that brothel they took over in the early 90's?
"Why didnt Bush do something about this EO when he was President?"
That would assume GWB disagreed with it.
Mass shootings only occur in gun-free zones.
BBBut they all had cell phones and were ferociously texting.
My guess is that they don't want every cook or clerk typist who last qualified with a rifle or pistol in basic training to get the idea they're rangers,grunts, SF,etc.
That being said, I'm not sure why those who are practiced cannot be armed while in uniform with their duty weapon.
"...its a frigging MILITARY BASE. Why arent there guns?"
The security guards had guns but either couldn't or didn't get a chance to use them effectively. We need to start giving base security body armor if they dont already have it. The freaking EPA is better armed than military bases.
Arm soldiers!
They know exactly what to do.
I know of a National Guard base where all the guards carry M-16s, but no bullets.
Should instead be part of the active duty check-in when you get transfered in that you will attend all required concealed carry and long gun requirements for the state the base is on. You will then be required to purchase a sidearm with funding in a new allowance catagory just like housing allowance, clothing allowance, meal rations allowance. You will be required to carry at all times on the base, not required in your govt. housing, if applicable. But post an armed guard to accessways for govt housing to protect the unarmed members and their families.
I am reaching for the popcorn and waiting for the Barney Fife comments.
If this isn't common sense gun legislation, I don't know what is.
Which is exactly why Switzerland is/was a place nobody messes with. When the Germans tried to roll thru, the citizens promised to shoot every officer first. Every citizen had to prove proficciency with a rifle as their duty. Target practice every month as well if I recall correctly. Germany kept a safe distance.
Hijackings finally meant pilots got guns.
The resistance to the change is because the left saw the next logical argument — "Hey, it worked for planes, so why not military bases? And then why not SOCIETY..?"
Armed pilots were the tiny leak in the dyke.
If FIXING this (doing away with gun free zones) isnt common sense gun legislation, I dont know what is. (for clarification)
Y'know, a lot of this problem is self-inflicted. We as gun owners have a real bad tendency to "hide our light under a bushel basket." That is to say that most gun owners don't carry and those that do tend to carry concealed. Which might be OK from a tactical perspective, but in the long run just undercuts our position. Very few gun owners Open Carry the Tools of Liberty. And it's not helping us one little bit.
Ask yourself: would the kind of senseless butchery we've seen in CT and DC and CO and other places have occurred if even 10% of the population Open Carried?
No, it probably would not.
And we also have to ask whether we would even be hearing the tired bleatings of the gun grabbers if 10% of the population Open Carried?
No, we probably would not.
So while we complain about the gun grabbers and fight them politically, it continues to be something of a rearguard effort. We could largely eliminate violent crime and get marginalize the gun grabbers in one fell swoop if just say one out of 4 or one out of 5 gunowners would just openly and proudly carry the Tools of Liberty as they went about their day to day business.
We are sitting ducks right now. A band of clowns can overrun our military bases.
The Beruit Marine barracks - guards had no ammo.
USS Cole - M2 guys topside also had no ammo.
He later said he wanted to avoid a tragedy —sounds made up, right?
I didn't know our men on military bases couldn't have a handgun until the killing at Fort Hood. I was stunned to find that out. That many deaths at Fort Hood wouldn't have happened if our guns had a handgum. These killings at the Naval base also be much less if our guys had a handgun.
That law needs to be struck down right now.
Ahhh... crazy's hearing voices don't obe thelaw?
It seems like the Navy Yard shooter (I refuse to print its name) would have thought twice, and only have succeeded once, if he were met by a few armed GIs running to the sound of the gunfire, with weapons drawn.
The Bushies are big govt liberals....ALL Of 'EM!
Policies .. Who needs them unless they serve a leftist goal.
Years ago, even as we took up a new fight against terrorists of no particular persuasion, we lost our way, our nation's leaders floundered and philandered too, the price we have paid since for their intrigues is inestimable, for families, for states and our nation.
Put some ice on it, Bubba. Time for you to get Jimmah Carter to build you a house.. With a view. Of Hillary and the hell she hath wrought as well.
That's right.
Good question but I think that the answer lies in two parts. First, if you'll recall, Bush #43 (W) said he would sign an assault weapons ban. He could say this and be comforted in the knowledge that Congress would never send him one. But I'm pretty sure that he would have done so had one been sent to his desk.
Part two of this lies in his daddy, Bush #41. That Bush is decidedly antigun. He's the guy who got rid of all our cheap Chinese, Egyptian, Czech and Bulgarian 7.62x39 ammo by an EO ban. He's the guy who also banned (by EO) the superb H&K PSG-1 long range rifle from ever again competing at Camp Perry or being used to take game at 800+ meters. At a minimum of $10K to buy one, it wasn't high on the list of guns wanted in da 'Hood. This was also the guy, you'll remember, who coined the term for our society just after Gulf War #1 of New World Order, in 1992. That is not an accident.
I have the same question..I had no idea that there were no guns allowed on military bases..its a MILITARY BASE..if guns are not allowed there then these brave men and women who sacrifice everything for our freedom are just sitting ducks. Jihadists attack military bases in Afghanistan all the time, you would think they would allow military to carry weapons, but thanks to Slick Willy he banned it
As far as I'm concerned, American military personnel should be required to carry their firearm at all times.
Chicken, Alaska was invaded by ninjyas from 7 different LE Agencies. They literally outnumbered the ENTIRE TOWN.
And yet we cannot defend our own military bases in the capital city of our own country.
We enforce Iraqi borders, Yemeni borders, but leave our OWN totally undefended.
Is there any historical precedent?
"I am reaching for the popcorn and waiting for the Barney Fife comments."
We'll see. You might be waiting for awhile.
Yes, but ultimately it's up to us to do it. Do we really think the politicians are going to preserve our liberties?
If even 10% of the population Open Carried, do you really think this would be an issue?
1. We let our BP guy get killed (bean-bag rounds)
2. We let our Customs guy get killed
3. We let our "Embassy" guys get killed
4. We disarm our military
"If FIXING this (doing away with gun free zones) isnt common sense gun legislation, I dont know what is. (for clarification)."
But it sort of begs the question: do the politicians possess any common sense? I think the answer to that by and large is a resounding NO.
If we wish to preserve our liberties, then the only people who will do so are ourselves. When we act with common sense by regularly and openly carrying the Tools of Libery, a lot of this silliness will evaporate. When we start acting like a free people and effectively nullify the usurpations of our liberties, then much of our political silliness will evaporate as well.
Having spent several years as a military policeman on several military bases, I would like to clarify a couple of misconceptions here.
There is currently nothing preventing a commanding officer from arming troops with government firearms while they go about their duties on a military base except fear of "accidental discharges". The law in place prohibits the possession of only privately owned firearms on bases.
Federal law and the laws of the states already allow any service member to carry an assigned firearm at any time during the course of their military duties.
There is a culture in the military of making policies for the lowest common denominator. Commanders choose not to arm troops on bases because inevitably some Joe will screw up and shoot his buddy at the motor pool.
I'm not saying it's a good reason for not having, for example, all E-5s and above armed at least with pistols. It's just the military rationale for not doing it.
Sure, we could change the EO or law or whatever and allow privately owned firearms in the barracks or on base housing, but this does not address the fact that service members should be armed while on base carrying out their duties. This must originate at the base commander level.
"We are sitting ducks right now. A band of clowns can overrun our military bases."
The same could be said for our homes, our businesses, and our schools. How many people even carry, let alone carry openly?
A big part of the solution is already out there and perfectly legal in most states. Yet our population has become so neutered as to not even dare carry the Tools of Liberty.
Because Bush wasn't nearly as "conservative" as everyone touted him to be.
I tried to point this out a couple of times, but was shouted down.
I carry. Every day. There's a bunch of us out here that take the issue pretty seriously.
To make matters worse we're trying to hide our military as if they were something to be ashamed of. Just this spring a Michigan high school was sent into lockdown because a man in military style fatigues was seen walking down the hall.
The man in fatigues turned out to be a recent graduate of the school who happened to be stationed at the nearby Selfridge ANG base. He was stopping to say hi to his old teachers and to show off a little in uniform. He wasn't even armed and it still caused a panic.
We have 73 Federal armed forces —not just FBI, BATF.
Now it's Dept of Education, and even the Library of Congress has armed cops —the rise of Warrior Cops.
See, these two things are part of the SAME problem —guns going to people who do NOT need them, and NOT going to people do DO need them.
"I carry. Every day. Theres a bunch of us out here that take the issue pretty seriously."
Openly? If so, I offer you my humble thanks. There are very few of us who do.
That would require common sense which is not so common anymore.
There were hundreds of EO's W should have overturned. The first thing Reagan did when he took office was to fix the EO mess that was left behind by Carter.
W signed everything. His veto record is appalling.
Because he agreed that disarming military personnel on base was a good idea.
"Everyone wants to keep people safe and no one denies Mr. Clintons good intentions."
Damn the liberals and their "good intentions". Has there EVER been a liberal "good intention" that hasn't turned out bad? I can't think of one. That is why it is a good bet to see what the liberals want and do the opposite.
Served from 1967 to 1969.
At Ft. Dix, Ft. Lewis and duty stations in Germany firearms were only carried while on guard duty (with ammo) and Field training exercises with blanks,qualification with live ammo, or checked out of the arms room for cleaning.
Privately owned firearms were kept locked in the arms room and only released to the owner with company commander's approval for target shooting, hunting, change of duty station, or end of enlistment to take home.
There were 2 incidents at Ft. Lewis where soldiers on guard duty with live ammo 1). shot himself in the head either accidentally while playing with the pistol or committed suicide and 2). a round from an "unloaded" .45 was discharged inside the guard quarters passing through a bunk mattress and lodging in a trooper's leg.
Not sure that everybody on post should be carrying firearms with live ammo when not in a combat zone is a good solution to on base shootings
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One of the members is Epifania who, in her latest survey, demonstrated she was at poverty level 3 - that is to say, that she has improved greatly thanks to the work that she does and to the training that she has received. She works selling vegetables, ice cream, fruit salads, etc. As you can see, she is a person who has strived hard and, as a result, is getting ahead and growing.
She is requesting a loan to buy seeds which will help her cultivate her vegetables and implement her business plan and this will help her to increase her income.
Una de las integrantes es la Sra Epifania quien en su última encuesta mostró un nivel de pobreza dentro del nivel tres, es decir está mejorando mucho gracias al trabajo que hace y sumada a la capacitaciones que recibe. Ella se dedica a la venta de hortalizas, helados, ensaladas de frutas, etc., como se puede ver es una persona que se ha esforzado mucho y por eso está saliendo adelante y creciendo en lo que hace.
La Sra. Solicita de este crédito para la compra de semillas , lo que le ayudará a seguir con el cultivo de sus hortalizas y así poder concretar su plan de negocio, el cual le ayudará a mejorar sus ingresos.
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About Fundación ParaguayaFundación Paraguaya is a financially self-sustaining social enterprise that promotes entrepreneurship in urban and rural areas through microfinance, education programs, and more. Its focus on agriculture has helped many farmers boost their crop yields. And a number of other borrowers have taken out loans to start and grow social businesses that have helped deliver eyeglasses, medicines and other helpful services in their local communities.
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