Archive for February, 2007

Blogs as Business Tools (Investors' Business Daily)

Gary Stern of Investors' Business Daily wrote in a recent article, Blogs Are Put To Use As Business Machines on the significant benefits of unconventional marketing tools, especially blogs. According to the article, blogs can Read More...

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On February 28th, 2007

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

Michael Pollan has a lengthy, excellent article in the NY Times on "Nutritionism": how modern technology can make your food less healthy. I strongly recommend it, particularly for people sensitive to their health and Read More...

Posted By David Teten Comments Off
On February 20th, 2007

Social Media attacking Big Media

Social media, user-generated content, digital egalitarianism ... big media has a big problem
... The second tectonic shift that rocked the Internet in recent days came from Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, a free Read More...

Posted By David Teten Comments Off
On February 14th, 2007

Update on Jigsaw, marketplace for business contact information

I enjoyed meeting with Jim Fowler yesterday, CEO of Jigsaw (our wiki profile). Jigsaw is a marketplace for business contact information. It's very useful for salespeople, recruiters, researchers, jobseekers, and so on.
Some noteable data points:
+ We know from our (Nitron Advisors') own experience that the problem with most traditional list services is that their Read More...

Posted By David Teten Comments Off
On February 3rd, 2007

What is your greatest weakness? 3 smart replies

Annie Fisher quotes Ben Dattner, who suggests:
1. Focus the discussion on how you've improved over time.
2. Talk about how the job you're applying for will help you stretch and build your skills.
3. Describe Read More...

Posted By David Teten Comments Off
On February 1st, 2007