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For as long as anyone can remember, (some) whisky companies have been using caramel colouring in their whiskies. The arguments for and against the use of caramel in whisky are well documented, but just in case, let's imagine a discussion between a well-educated, handsome whisky consumer, and one of those nasty and 'orrible whisky companies that make whisky packed full of yucky and horrible caramel (the b*stards).More...
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After a busy few days meeting the great and the good from the whisk(e)y world, we were invited up to the London Cocktail Club for an astonishing bourbon tasting, led by Preston Van Winkle. All in all, it was the perfect end to the week.
Before we began the tasting, Preston talked us through the history of Van Winkle...
The company was founded by Preston's great grandfather, Julian "Pappy" Van Winkle Senior. During the late 19th Century, Pappy worked as an itinerant salesman for W.L. Weller & Sons (a whiskey company based in Louisville, Kentucky), selling bourbon from a horse and cart.
In 1910, he bought the A. Ph. Stitzel Distillery (which made the whiskey for W.L. Weller), and with it he gained control of the W.L. Weller, Old Fitzgerald, Rebel Yell and Cabin Still brands – the four horsemen More...
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Last Thursday, a contingent from MoM visited the Hyatt Regency Hotel for a Laphroaig tasting, led by distillery manager, John Campbell.
Laphroaig is one of the world's foremost distilleries, whose ubiquitous whisky's popularity has not suffered one iota for being intensely peaty and utterly distinctive, and John talked us through just what makes such a powerful, muscular malt so well-loved the world over... He also let us in on a few rare treats (some of which have yet to hit shop shelves!). More...
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Those good ol' boys at Gordon and Macphail have done it again – they've release another 'the world's oldest whisky'…
Following on from the huge success of last year's release of a 70 year old Mortlach under their new 'Generations' brand, G&M have released another cask that has been sitting dormant in their warehouse since the days of the second world war.
Perhaps the most astonishing part of both of these releases has been that neither of the whiskies have been described in any way as 'over the hill' or 'too woody'. It's testament to the absolute vastness of G&M's stock that they're able to pull out gems such as these after the best part of a lifetime in Oak.
Distilled on 4th February 1940 (just 3 days before the release of Disney's Pinocchio – thank you Wikipedia), the whisky was filled into a first-fill sherry butt which has yielded only 100 70cl bottles, and 175 20cl bottles. The bottling ABV (at natural cask strength of 45.9%) is actually comparatively high for a whisky More...
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You're probably wondering what this post is about. If you suspected it was an announcement that we, the chaps at Master of Malt, have started running tasting sessions from the comfort and luxury of our town centre offices in Royal Tunbridge Wells, then you'd be correct.
Your questions may be:
1. "What will they involve?
2. "How does it affect me?"
3. "But I don't live in Tunbridge Wells!"
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Chestibor Chihuahua has brought down his green hat and lucky four leaf clover collar and that can only mean one thing; St Patrick's day is nearly upon us!
With just a few weeks to go we've teamed up with Cooley distillery to offer one lucky winner the chance to visit the distillery with their better half and enjoy two days of wining, dining, whiskeying and general good times..
We reckon you'll love this; it's a great prize for any whiskey lover, and it's a brilliant opportunity to indulge in an experience you'll be talking about for years to come. More...
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Continuing on in our series of guest cocktail posts, we are thrilled to bring you Chris Hoban, who writes for the excellent Edinburgh Whisky Blog – a detailed, brilliantly written site about all things whisky and drinks related.
Chris' brief was simple: concoct a delicious winter cocktail using our 8 Year Old Blend and our new Whisky Bitters. This is what Chris came up with… More...
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Are you a single malt drinker of discerning tastes? Do you have the cocked eyebrow and furrowed brow of a whisky aficionado of esteem and worldliness?
Well, we regularly cock our eyebrows and furrow our brows (as evidenced by the photo of the devilishly charming Sir Roger Moore below).
We also find that most whisky liqueurs are too sweet for our liking. And are often made with cheap grain whisky, instead of top quality single malt. Eurrghh! This will not do!
So we decided to do something wholly unthought-of – we created a whisky liqueur for the single malt connoisseur.
This was much, much easier said than done though, in fact this liqueur has been literally months in the making. More...
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The most recent addition to our single cask selection is a 30 Year Old Caol Ila, distilled in 1980.
It was aged in a refill hogshead, and is of a release including just 154 bottles, all of which are non chill-filtered and bottled at natural cask strength (which was 57.4%).
Having never tried a Caol Ila of this age that wasn't delicious, we're looking forward to getting our lips around this one… More...
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We asked a few well-known spirits/drinks writers to come up with delicious wintry cocktails using our 8 year old blended whisky, and our new cask-aged whisky bitters.
This week we've teamed up with Joshua Hatton to bring you the next thrilling instalment in our guest cocktail blog series. Joshua not only writes a superb blog, he is also President and Founder of the Jewish Single Malt Whisky Society based over in the good ol' US of A. We posted Joshua a bottle of our very own 8 year old blended whisky and a bottle of our brand new and very fine cask-aged whisky bitters. More...
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As a former student of FHU, the term "lectureships" always created a sense of excitement and anticipation around campus. Lectureships meant that young and old Christians would be gathering together at FHU, and along with that crowd, I would get to see many friends and family members. Why is this so great you might ask? Because I'll be eating a lot of meals for free that week!
In all seriousness, the annual FHU Lectureships are a great time to bring Christians together from all over the country for a week of fellowship and religious discussion. Apart from attending your regular classes that week, teachers encourage the students to attend different presentations and lectures that are taking place around FHU. If you played your cards right, some of those same teachers might award "extra-credit" for attendance and notes from the right lecture.
This year's lectureships will be no different. When the first day rolls around, the campus will be filled with Christians from around the world, who have all gathered together to explore and discuss God's Word. As I think about the lectureships, there is a sense of pride and respect that I've always had. It gives me pride in my faith and in my school for hosting such a great gathering. Then I have respect for the faith of the crowd and for the honor that they give to studying God' Word. This is one of the greatest events on FHU's campus, and it's a joy to take part in it each year!
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Low Life Course Socioeconomic Status (SES) is Associated with Negative NEO PI-R Personality Patterns
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Low socioeconomic status (SES) is associated with poor health. One potential pathway accounting for this relationship may be an association between low SES and personality characteristics that affect health.
Associations among parent's education, current SES (education and income), and personality were examined among 233 African Americans and Caucasian, male and female community volunteers.
Using multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) to model neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness, and conscientiousness simultaneously, participant's education, household income, and father's and mother's education each had significant main effects on personality. When examining the life course—the combination of both current and childhood SES—distinctive patterns emerged for each domain, depending upon whether mother's or father's education was used to index childhood SES. When using mother's education as a childhood SES index, a high life course SES (high participant's SES/high mother's education) was associated with high extraversion and openness. Using father's education as a childhood SES index, a low life course SES (low participant's SES/low father's education) was associated with disproportionately high neuroticism and low conscientiousness. These effects did not differ by race or sex.
The implications of these findings for the role of personality in the SES–health relationship are discussed.
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- Pappas G, Queen S, Hadden W, Fisher G. The increasing disparity in mortality between socioeconomic groups in the United States, 1960 and 1986. N Engl J Med. 1993;329:103–9. CrossRef
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- 2. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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This beachfront hotel is located in Lincoln City, Oregon, 2 miles from Devils Lake Golf Course. It features an on-site restaurant, an indoor pool, and free in-room Wi-Fi.A fireplace and a private balcony with views of the ocean are part of the rooms at Surftides Lincoln City. A microwave, refrigerator, and coffee-making facilities are also provided.Guests of this Lincoln City hotel can work out in the on-site fitness centre and relax in the sauna or hot tub. Bicycles are available for hire to explore the area.Open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, MIST Restaurant serves seafood and cuisine made with local organic ingredients. The lounge is open in the evenings.Devils Lake State Park is 1.5 miles from Lincoln City Surftides. The shops at the Tanger Outlet Mall are less than 10 minutes' drive away. ...read more
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Despite the fact that over the past decade Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish community has been one of New York City's fastest growing populations, not even one Orthodox Jew has appeared during that time on the ballot for the New York State Supreme Court bench in Brooklyn.
We strongly believe it is time for that to change. First, some background.
One of the more popular mantras in the world of social theory is that the pool of those who make authoritative governmental decisions should reflect the diversity of the population. Decision-making informed by differences in race, color, creed and gender – sexual orientation was recently added to the list – has been viewed for some time now as a cornerstone of a just society.
(To be sure, many political leaders have often covertly controlled the selection process, seeing to it that people who resembled themselves found their way into government jobs – either directly or via tradeoffs with other leaders from different groups.)
For much of American history, judges were not commonly thought of in terms of any approach to diversity in government. After all, judges were supposed to simply apply the law according to the meaning of the statutory language. But it is now widely understood that judges do not operate in a vacuum and in fact draw on their own backgrounds and experiences in their work, not only when it comes to sentencing in criminal cases but also when parsing the very words of a law.
In addition, judges are called on to assess the bona fides of litigants' requests as to religious requirements in terms of scheduling trials and other proceedings, or their explanations of why they may have been unable to fulfill a contractual commitment on a certain day. And judges are required to determine whether there have been willful violations of court orders and whether individuals are in contempt of court. Issues such as wearing a yarmulke or other religious garb in court are sometimes involved.
It is not widely understood that while judges are in strict control of the matters before them, they do interact with each other on general topics and Orthodox Jewish judges are able to fill in gaps in the experiences of their colleagues.
The judicial selection process in New York State at the Supreme Court level is not well known but it is crucial. In fact, the individuals who will run in the general elections in November are chosen at nominating conventions, held shortly after the regular primary elections, from a list of names submitted by local party district leaders under the leadership of the county leader. These candidates then run in the general election.
So, the key to this process are the actions of district leaders and the county leader. Moreover, given the overwhelming numerical superiority of Democrats over Republicans in places like Brooklyn, being chosen at a Democratic nominating convention is virtually tantamount to election.
In short, we call on the political leaders of the Democratic Party in Brooklyn on both the district and county levels to remedy the relative scarcity of Orthodox Jewish judges on the Supreme Court bench in Brooklyn.
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I think Hon. David Schmidt, Hon. Esther Morgenstern, and Hon. Eric Prus are all Orthodox elected Supreme Court judges in Brooklyn currently serving. Hon. Mark Friedlander is an Orthodox elected Supreme Court judge in the Bronx.
This editorial is a lie–not one in the last decade? Who are you kidding?
With Ruchelsman, Balter(2003) Prus (2004), Morgenstern (2005), Schmidt, (2006) & Friedman (renominated 2012) plus the late Herb Kramer (renominated 2003) there've been sic Orthodox Jews nominated in the last decade, and six still on the bench. The Orthodox % of elected Supreme Court judges from Brooklyn exceeds the Orthodox percentage of the population and exceeds the number of Latinos and Asians combined.
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If there's one other thing I've been doing in Mexico, apart from cooling off in the lovely cenotes, it's working up a sweat wandering round the many Maya ruins. I thought Belize was well-represented in that department, having been to six of them (including the two biggest, Caracol and Lamanai). But Mexico has about ten major ruins, and tens of smaller sites. Continue reading
The Cenotes of the Yucatán
The Yucatán Peninsula is the area of Central America that juts out into the water like a big fat thumb, separating the Caribbean Sea from the Gulf of Mexico (most of it's in Mexico, but it also includes parts of northern Belize and northern Guatemala). The Belizean and Guatemalan parts are mostly low-lying jungle; and the Mexican part is equally flat, equally hot, and comprised mainly of limestone. This soft rock is so porous that the abundant rainwater drains straight through it, and as a consequence there are no surface rivers in this part of the country. But what there are plenty of is sinkholes, known locally as cenotes (from a Maya word dzonot, meaning sacred well). The Peninsula is pockmarked with thousands of them, and they range in size and shape – while some are open water pools at the bottom of circular limestone holes, most are mainly or completely underground, accessed by small holes in the ground or twisting cave passages. In this flat landscape, the only thing that rises above the forest and the plains are the giant temple-pyramids built by the ancient Maya, and it was probably the numerous cenotes and their fresh water that allowed the Maya cities to survive and grow. Continue reading
Food of the Gods
Some time ago, I wrote a post about Belizean food. But I didn't mention all the delicious sweet things that the country produces – from Black Cakes to Coconut Tarts to Rice Puddings to Tres Leches (Three Milks) Cakes. And with most of these desserts packed full of sugar and soaked in evaporated or condensed milk, their sweet deliciousness is only matched by their sugary and fatty unhealthiness. Wash that lot down with a bottle of Coke and ponder why 60% the locals are overweight and 15% have diabetes… Continue reading
¡Hola Guatemala! – The Sweet River
As you may remember from a previous post, last year I took my first trip across Belize's western border to Guatemala. And after having waited so long to finally go there, I immediately realised how beautiful (and cheap) the country is, and how much I wanted to go back. After taking advantage of one of the many Belizean public holidays to revisit the jungle-covered and ruin-filled Petén department back in March, now it's the Easter weekend, and time for another trip – this time to another place I've already glimpsed, the Rio Dulce, in the tropical south of the country. Continue reading


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Nothing embodies the American spirit quite like entrepreneurship. Like America, entrepreneurship thrives on hard work, perseverance, optimism, and an unyielding capacity for renewal. It is because of these qualities that people from around the world dream of a life in America as an independent business owner with the freedom and opportunity to control their own destiny.
For the past four years, the Massachusetts Office for Refugees and Immigrants (ORI) has helped to fulfill the entrepreneurial dreams of newly arrived refugees through its Massachusetts Refugee Enterprise Achievement Program (MassREAP). Although refugees are often forced to flee their home country with little more than the clothes on their back, what they are able to carry is a wealth of prior business experience and expertise. MassREAP helps refugees tap into their entrepreneurial know-how through business planning, financial planning, marketing strategy, ongoing technical assistance, and access to credit. Through no fault of their own, refugee entrepreneurs are often barred from traditional lending institutions as they lack credit history and sufficient financial capital. MassREAP bridges this gap and in doing so unlocks what would otherwise be lost economic growth and potential.
Since its inception, MassREAP has helped to launch more than 90 businesses, expand more than 20 businesses, and stabilize more than 60 businesses. In addition to benefitting the owners of these small businesses, through their success, dozens of jobs have been created for residents of the Commonwealth. To ensure that MassREAP reaches the largest constituency possible, ORI partners with Lutheran Social Services (LSS) in Worcester and West Springfield and Jewish Vocational Services (JVS) in Boston. Together, ORI, LSS, and JVS have worked with communities from more than 30 different countries and provided small loans to more than 75 unique individuals. These entrepreneurs have gone on to start successful businesses in retail, manufacturing, the service industry, and consulting- often providing invaluable resources to otherwise underserved populations.
While there are many businesses that typify the achievement of the refugees that take part in MassREAP, the Baghdad Bakery and Market is an exemplary case study. Its proprietor, Dheyaa Habeeb was forced to flee Iraq in 2008 with his wife and four children. After living as a refugee in Turkey for one year, Dheyaa and his family arrived in West Springfield, MA in 2009 with the dream of opening a bakery. Without the credit or capital to start the business on his own, Dheyaa applied for MassREAP with Lutheran Social Services (LSS) in West Springfield. MassREAP assisted Dheyaa in writing his business plan, developing a cash flow projection, and accessing holistic technical assistance for obtaining all of the necessary permits, inspections, and applications. Additionally, Dheyaa obtained a $3,000 start-up microloan from LSS to help get his business off the ground.
Today, the Baghdad Bakery and Market has expanded from its beginnings in bread and basic retail to include butcher services and a van to distribute their products. Dheyaa has fully paid off his initial loan and helped his family to become economically self-sufficient. But Dheyaa's success is not just his own, Dheyaa has also been able to employ two members of his new community. As Dheyaa continues to grow and expand his business, he hopes to be able to open a pastry shop and buy his first family home in America.
You can try Dheyaa's delicious bread at 464 Main Street, West Springfield, MA.
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Voters passed a $24,569,268 budget, which is up about 1 percent from last year's budget.
Article 7 was amended because voters were uncomfortable with its language. The article asked for a $1 appropriation for the Winnisquam football program.
A second sentence in the article, which read "The funds will be used to ensure the safety of participants and the viability of the program," was dropped after voters argued that it was too broad. The amended article passed 80-66.
After a discussion, Article 4 was passed, 75-50, which will place $25,000 in the Special Education Capital Reserve Fund, to be paid from the June 30 unreserved fund balance available for transfer on July 1.
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In passing Article 1, voters approved the collective bargaining agreement reached between the Winnisquam Regional School Board and the Winnisquam Paraprofessional Employees AFSCME Local 3158, which calls for increases in salaries and benefits.
A total of $30,833 was appropriated for the upcoming fiscal year's salaries and benefits as part of the agreement for 2013, and 2014's estimated increase is the same amount.
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The district also approved $614,211 for work at Southwick School, which will include installing a metal roof on the south-facing sections of the buildings, and infrastructure improvements to ensure the safety and security of students and staff.
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Rockford Area Pregnancy Care Center (RAPCC) will host their Annual Fundraising Banquet this year on Friday, April 20, at Giovanni's Restaurant, 610 N. Bell School Road. Doors open at 6 p.m., and the event runs until 9 p.m.
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Research shows small business owners struggle with Twitter
Dec 10th
The latest research report from Business.com shows that small business owners are still trying to figure out Twitter … but those who have mastered it are seeing an advantage.
The expansive report covering 1,711 small business decision makers showed that of all the social media channels, Twitter was the least-used. Just 27 percent of the respondents were active on the micro-blogging site.
But even that figure may be deceptively high – the survey sample was of business leaders already using some form of the social web. Translation: This is why you are still getting blank stares when you talk to most small business decision makers about Twitter.
Although Twitter fell to the bottom of the list of most-used social media resources for business, those actively using Twitter are very positive about the business value. In fact, Twitter topped the write-in list with small business decision makers praising the ability to get quick feedback and access relevant business information. One typical quote:
"On Twitter, the people I follow provide me with more relevant links and information than any other tool. It saves me time and helps me learn about new technologies or innovative ideas, as they are happening."
As we have come to expect, the Business.com research is thorough and fascinating, with detailed data segmented by industry, job type and company size. Study participants in the healthcare, retail and legal industries use significantly fewer social media sites/resources for business information.
Based on the findings, companies interested in using social media to engage small business customers and prospects would be wise to:
- Develop educational webinars and/or podcasts which address specific small business needs in the process of introducing company products or services. Businesses value convenience and speed in their information sources.
- Encourage, and carefully tend, online reviews of company products or services.
- Establish a presence on one or more major social networking sites and use this as a hub for corporate social media initiatives.
- Participate in more focused online discussions where it is easy to find and respond to questions specifically related to company products or services – such answering questions on Q&A sites like LinkedIn Answers or Business.com Answers, or in online business forums – rather than trying to work a promotional mention into discussions on 3rd party web sites and blogs.
- Further investigate how their target audience is using Twitter for business today and begin developing a Twitter strategy.
Source: Engaging Small Business Decision Makers through Social Media: A 2009 Business Social Media Benchmarking Study Report. Business.com, December 7, 2009, http://www.business.com/info/engaging-small-business-through-social-media.
Falling in love with Skynet
Dec 9th
One of the great themes of our "social media future" discussion was "privacy" and the ultimate stand we hope people would take to keep companies (like the mythical Skynet) from abusing personal data. I thought a lot about this and Easter Island came to mind.
Easter Island is the one of the most remote and desolate places on Earth and is home to the mysterious moai statues. Although just a speck of a place, centuries ago the island had two competing tribes. The ruler of each tribe would build larger and larger temples and more moai in his honor, trying to out-do the ruler on the other side of the island for glory.
Over several generations, the lush palm forests on the island began disappearing as the tribes rapidly used this extremely limited resource for temples and construction of the massive stone faces. Remember, there was literally no place to go for more wood.
Within a few generations, every single stick of wood on the island had been consumed. Researchers think this was probably the leading cause of the collapse of the native civilization.
You might wonder, "How could they be so stupid?" Part of the answer is in the fact that they didn't realize they were doing it. The children became accustomed to the idea of an island with fewer trees. They didn't have videos and digital photos to document what the place used to look like. And then the next generation only knew a world with even fewer trees, and so on.
Like a lobster slowly being killed in a boiling pot of water, generation after generation became accustomed to an increasingly de-forested landscape because they didn't know a different reality ever existed!
Could this phenomenon happen again?
Today, personal information is being served up by our nearly constant digital footprint. Our grandparents would probably be mortified by what we post every day and the record we're creating for permanent, global dissection. It's just what we do. We call it the social web and we love it.
But the heat is turning up and already we can see that the privacy pot just might boil. Will the next generation even know, let alone care? Today's teens are conditioned to accept highly targeted and intrusive ads as the norm, part of the cost of the experience. As long as a cool, free good or service outweighs the incremental intrusiveness of a privacy intervention, people will be happy to go along. If we fast-forward 10 years, would we be horrified by the personal freedoms that have been abdicated for instant gratification?
Perhaps our children and grandchildren will be conditioned to slowly, inexorably, willingly abandon their freedom, never realizing they are in the process of being boiled. At least until they meet John Conner.* : )
What do you think? Lobster anyone?
* In the Terminator movies, John Conner was the hero who battled evil Skynet, a company who unleashed human-destroying machines on the world. Skynet is also a telecommunications company in Europe. I don't think they are one and the same, but time will tell.
This is the future of social media
Dec 6th
With the dawn of the social web, I can't think of a more exciting time to be in the field of marketing. But I don't think we have really seen anything yet! Here are 12 developments I believe we will witness in the future … and probably sooner than you think.
1) Hyper social measurement– At some point soon, Google is going to start doing something bold with the volumes of personal data they're collecting. Google is in the best position by far to define social media monitoring, especially now that they are taking steps to fold in data from Twitter, Facebook and other platforms. Once Google flexes its social media monitoring muscles, companies like Radian6 will become niche players at best. Complex algorithms will determine real-time sentiment shifts down to the individual. And it won't be free.
2) Tapping into text messaging– The one communication mode largely untouched by real-time search is text messages. This is a goldmine of information too big to ignore, especially if you're a "cool-hunting" consumer product company. Entrepreneurs will find a way to tap into the "text stream" by rewarding users for being included in their data-gathering systems. Does this seem improbable? Would people accept a free cell phone and free data service in exchange for their text information being stored in a database for consumer product research and targeted promotions? It would work.
3) The human coupon– The massive quantity of personal information available about you will eventually follow you around. Enabled by GPS and RFID technology, coupons and special offers based on your buying patterns will appear instantly on your mobile device as you near a store. RFID chips embedded in packaging will send messages during your purchase decision to encourage up-selling and cross-selling. For example, if you pick up a blouse off of a rack, a message will direct you to the precise area of the store where you can find a matching skirt … on sale just for you.
4) Radical privacy movement — This intense data gathering and the use of it in a Big-Brother-like manner will spark a backlash, including legislation, assuring the right to be excluded from Internet data-gathering tools. Because of its power and control over voluminous personal details, Google will become the most profitable, and despised, company in history.
5) Man-machine interface. Medical advances and social media platforms will converge. Scientists are already embedding electronics in humans to power limbs, regulate body functions, and enable the brain to access information from micro chips. It's now possible to think a tweet or control artificial limbs with a thought. Humans will routinely carry a computer inside of them, powered by body heat and motion. You will literally always be on the social web, generating messages just by thoughts. Humans will have markings like tattoos to display the premium, designer brand of devices embedded in their bodies. This will give new meaning to the tagline "Intel Inside."
6) We become the Internet. Today, people talk about Twitter, Facebook etc., never really connecting that these are all "Internet." As the social web literally becomes part of our bodies, we will no longer distinguish between listening, talking and electronic communications. In our minds, there will be no more web. It will just be.
7) Massive national ID validation. The social web will become the exclusive source of consumer information, political research/policy development, and education systems. Because of the increasingly critical importance of this feedback and the opportunity for corruption, complex systems to prevent fraud will be needed, including a broadly-implemented government validation program that extends across all platforms.
8) Micro politics — Politicians will use real-time sentiment analysis to craft and re-craft voter appeals right up until the moment they enter a polling station. Political messaging will be nearly-instantaneous and tailored to individuals based on data purchased from Google.
9) Extreme content — Journalism, film-making and advertising agencies will thrive, much to the surprise of nearly everyone. The need for content on the social web will drive radical evolution of these three traditional professions and "Content development and management" will become a popular college major. While most content today is generated through "free" submissions to YouTube, blogs, etc., salaries for the very best and most creative content providers will skyrocket as corporations raise the creative bar to cut through the clutter.
10) The loner workforce. The cultural impact of the social web will have radical implications for managing the workforce of the future. How do you deal with a generation of employees who have been conditioned to communicate through their thumbs? Employee training of the future will look increasingly like video games.
11) Digital divide grows — For many parts of the world, access to free, global communications will be a great equalizer between rich and poor nations, especially as web-based translation services improve and encompass local dialects. However, in countries where people cannot access the web either for economic or political reasons, the digital divide will not only grow, it will become permanent for one simple reason: they will fall so far behind the technology curve they will never be able to catch up. Digital commerce, innovation and technology will be permanently dominated by those nations in the game NOW.
12) Pay for play– Social media is free but the cost of attracting consumer attention will become increasingly expensive, especially with the ability to skip ads. At some point, the cost per impression will be so high it will be less expensive to simply pay people to watch an ad. Combined with the "human coupon" trend mentioned above, this would provide nearly perfect information on cause and effect of advertising campaigns.
Well, that's enough far-out thought for one blog post and I'm sure you have A LOT to say about it! Your turn. The comment section is now OPEN!
Truth, Trust and Transparency … not Tiger.
Dec 4th
Note: I noticed that today, the little green "tweet" button on this article is not working. Here is a shortened URL you can use to "tweet" this story and share the love: http://bit.ly/4CumNw
Jayme Soulati is a regular contributor to the {grow} community and she recently challenged me to comment on the whole Tiger Thang. I challenged her back to go write her own darn blog and to my delight she did! Here's Jayme:
Public relations crisis managers are having a field day as the Tiger Woods debacle goes uncontrollably viral.
The gory details of such an event monopolize gossip moments and no one rests until truth is revealed; everyone is a skeptic today. The intimate moments with how many, duration of romances and number of bong hits are now tantamount to corporate fraud, backlash over corporate scandal, or poorly manufactured products.
We owe thanks to so many for spicing up the ether and forever tarnishing their celebrity brand: Phelps, Bryant, Vick, Bonds, Letterman, Sanford, Spitzer, Clinton, Edwards, and… (am trying to be gender neutral here, but the pendulum is swaying – oh, yes, Charlie Sheen's wife could be a husband stealer).
Living life under the public eye has never been more scrutinous (I frequently coin words) or pressurized. A simple transgression like driving a vehicle into a fire hydrant may have blown over with a public statement within 24 hours, but fear and shame about truth over-rode the immediate fess-up. Digging a deeper hole with half the truth is akin to a brand blemish gone to acne.
How is this unfolding saga relevant to our daily social media business lives?
As Tiger attempts to fix his still-fraying public image of gambler and lady's man, he'll grapple with questions about his private life forever. He'll be the butt of jokes. He'll be scorned with "I told you he was too clean" remarks. The damage control will now last a lifetime and be constantly echoed and amplified by a million Tweeters.
In this day of social media scrutiny, our companies, clients, and our professional selves may be vulnerable to the same intense under-glass existence within the social mediasphere. The rules of engagement are clear: truth, trust, transparency — not Tiger. You do not want to become an adjective.
The call to action here is a heightened awareness of personal vulnerability, risk and exposure. And when "Tiger happens," making your tee time is critical. Public relations must gauge the proper balance and momentum, and do it quickly.
It'll be interesting to see how the ruins are restored. Watch the handlers for the next 12 months; you might learn a few things to repair a brand of your own some day. And, perhaps, you have some immediate counsel of exactly what that plan ought to be?
Jayme Soulati is a 25-year public relations veteran and can be found at www.soulati.com and on Twitter, @Soulati.
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YRC Worldwide will incur as much as $11M in costs on logistics unit sale
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YRC Worldwide Inc. expects the announced sale of most of its logistics unit to require paying between $9 million and $11 million to shut down some services tied to the division.
The Overland Park-based trucking company (Nasdaq: YRCW) said in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing late Tuesday that the costs, which include as much as $7 million in cash charges, will include lease terminations, severance and asset write downs.
YRC said it would cease offering flow-through and pool distribution services effective June 30.
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The company announced June 25 that it plans to sell the logistics unit to Austin Ventures for $37 million.
Despite the costs, YRC Worldwide said it still expects positive operational earnings for the second quarter, turning around persistent losses.
Also Tuesday, shareholders elected nine directors as part of the company's annual meeting.
As previously announced, director Carl Vogt stepped down after the meeting and was replaced by Teresa Ghilarducci, an economics professor at the New School for Social Research in New York.
Ghilarducci was nominated by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.
YRC Worldwide agreed to reshuffle its board as part of a deal to entice bondholders late last year, when it had a brush with bankruptcy, to swap debt for equity.
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