Take the Pledge

If you have worked for a company of even modest size you will have been subjected to a “team building exercise,” which I’ve found to be about as unnatural for actual team building as setting up a group to “do innovation” is. Yet companies, especially large ones, insist on doing both.

Read Paul’s essay, it’s a […]

The Chaotic Olympics

“All visitors should be aware that they have no reasonable expectation of privacy in public or private locations,” according to the State Department site.

“All hotel rooms and offices are considered to be subject to on-site or remote technical monitoring at all times. Hotel rooms, residences and offices may be […]

Information Wants to be Syndicated

Bloomberg doesn’t offer RSS feeds. While I’m not aware of the official story on this, when I was in NYC a few weeks ago I asked them about it and they basically said they don’t want people consuming their content on non-Bloomberg sites. Okay, I think that’s wrong but it’s their content so they can […]

Widgets Gone Wild: Reuters

Reuters just launched a series of content widgets in India, U.S., and UK markets. This is a big win for NewsGator as Reuters is not only one of the best known and most respected news services in the world, but it’s also a global deployment with each region serving up local content (check out the […]

Email Signatures

I’m not a fan of email signatures that use images, fancy fonts, have legal disclaimers, and overshoot while attempting to achieve cleverness. But having said that, this is a pretty valuable piece of real estate that can be used effectively to not only communicate key details but reinforce brand messages.

Email signatures come in all shapes […]

Twitter Analytics

Here’s are some cool services for slicing-and-dicing Twitter:

TweetVolume : Enter a keywords and a graph will be built showing the frequency of the keywords. It’s great for seeing how often your company is referred to versus competitors or doing a buzzword trend analysis.

TweetStats : Analyze your Twitter traffic. Apparently I am a Monday morning Twitterer […]

Twitter Add-on for Ecto

Just found this Twitter add-on for Ecto which tweets when I publish a blog post. Could FriendFeed be a subset of Twitter?

addthisurl = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fjeffnolan.com%2Fwp%2F2008%2F03%2F21%2Ftwitter-add-on-for-ecto%2F’; addthistitle = ‘Twitter+Add-on+for+Ecto’; addthis_pub = ”;

Puzzle Widget

These things are amazingly habit forming. Great way to drive time spent on your site btw.

addthisurl = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fjeffnolan.com%2Fwp%2F2008%2F03%2F19%2Fpuzzle-widget%2F’; addthistitle = ‘Puzzle+Widget’; addthis_pub = ”;

When Customers Vote

This is actually very clever… it looks and feels like it’s built on Salesforce.com Ideas.

A new coffee blend is scheduled for an April debut, and a Web site, www.mystarbucksidea.com, will allow customers to submit ideas to the company and to vote on them.[From Starbucks CEO sees economic tailspin | Reuters]

Sprint was running their […]

Protest Focus

The protesters were complaining about fee hikes, the use of the SAT exam in student admissions, UC management of nuclear-weapons laboratories and what they called the university’s lack of diversity.[From UC protesters chain themselves to doors at regents meeting]

This is exactly why modern day protests have zero impact on public opinion and public […]

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