Blog categorized as Business

NY Times reports:

Wal-Mart is increasingly looking beyond the mainstream media and working directly with bloggers, feeding them exclusive nuggets of news, suggesting topics for postings and even inviting them to visit its corporate headquarters.

Companies of all stripes are using blogs to help shape p...

Kathy Sierra has this excellent post about how to be an expert.  The chart says it all. They say a picture is worth more than a thousand words! So true!

Seth Godin has a fantastic post where he mentions the fact that how precise language can change an organization. Here's his take:

Sometimes, precise language can change an organization.

How many times has a broker, or a clerk or a salesperson or some other intermediary (who was just a moment ago being...

BBC writes:

Om Malik writes on the Next Net 25:

Business 2.0’s Next Net 25 list is up. (I have been away and currently posting this from LAX, otherwise would have linked sooner.) The Next Net will encompass all digital devices and the Next Net is deeply collaborative.

Driven by ubiquitous broadband, cheap hardwa...

MediaPost writes:

"In a world where word of mouth is on steroids, you need to focus just as much on the negative," said panelist Pete Blackshaw, chief marketing officer for Nielsen BuzzMetrics. "Companies need to become faster at reacting to negative buzz."

Jim Nail, chief strategi...

At last week's 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, several big names in the communications sector, including Microsoft (Profile, Products, Articles), Nokia (Profile, Products, Articles), and Skype Technologies (Profile, Products, Articles), announced mobile phone-based VoIP (voice over Internet Protoc...

The guiding principles of Sun Microsystems ( subscription required) in today’s age of ‘competitive participation’:

• Share: blend internal assets with those outside. That means sharing things you value, such as intellectual property, best practices, employee time and even your thoughts, with tools suc...

Beth Snyder Bulik writes in Ad Age:

...emerging technology is changing the way consumers get their information and media companies and advertisers present their messages.

Digg harnesses the “Wisdom of Crowds” by encouraging users to submit and rank news articles. By registering at the site, readers ca...

Craig Cochran writes in his book - Becoming a customer-focused organization:

1. Play "follow the leader": good leadership drives customer focus:"Leaders have followers," he states, "so whatever the leader focuses on is of the utmost importance."
2. Remind employees of their mis...