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  Alltop News and Updates

• How to follow all the Toyota news

  GuyKawasaki

  5 Feb 2010 | 11:46 pm

  If you’d like to follow all the news about Toyota, be sure to go to Toyota.alltop and Autos.alltop. We aggregate hundreds of websites and blogs there.

• How to follow the Apple announcement

  GuyKawasaki

  27 Jan 2010 | 7:55 am

  Follow the Apple announcement at Apple.alltop. We aggregate over 200 sources there.

• How to follow the news about Haiti

  GuyKawasaki

  13 Jan 2010 | 8:18 am

  We just created Haiti.alltop to help you follow the news there. It includes blogs, websites, and Twitter accounts.

• How to stay on top of trends this year

  GuyKawasaki

  10 Jan 2010 | 1:23 pm

  Check out Trends.alltop. In a few minutes, you can scan all the websites and blogs that monitor trends including Trendhunter, Trendspotting, Coolhunting, and Josh Spear.

• Can't make it to CES? Stay on top of gadgets anyway.

  GuyKawasaki

  6 Jan 2010 | 10:26 am

  At Gadgets.alltop, we’ll have total coverage of the new gadgets and gizmos from CES. We aggregate over 130 websites and blogs that write about gadgets there.

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  crm intelligence & strategy

• Why PaaS is the New Black

  Esteban Kolsky

  8 Feb 2010 | 12:37 am

  I had very interesting conversations and strategy sessions with my clients lately, and noticed peculiar things in the market as well — all of them around the same issue: Platforms. No, I am not talking about the shoes of the 1970s we loved so much, I am talking about the intermediate layer of the cloud model – Platforms used to deploy applications. I wrote about Chatter back in November, and Genesys couple of weeks ago — and in both I expressed my firm belief that Platforms are going to be the issue that defines the cloud in the next few years.  I also wrote about the cloud…

• Look Ma, New Content at TheSocialCustomer.com!

  Esteban Kolsky

  1 Feb 2010 | 6:57 am

  I write two posts a month exclusively on TheSocialCustomer.com, which I do think is a very interesting community to share all things related to Social Businesses and Social CRM. When I told you what I was going to focus on for this year I said I wanted to look at the evolving business functions in a social business.  I am going to use that platform for that exploration — but will also announce it here in case you just get the feed for this blog (yeah, I am that smart and figured that out last night…). First post looked at the role of Customer Service as the new Marketing…

• The Re-Genesys of Genesys

  Esteban Kolsky

  1 Feb 2010 | 12:09 am

  If I mention Genesys to ten analysts in the customer service or CRM space nine of them will tell me they are a telephony company, and one probably won’t know who I am talking about.  I was one of the nine when I first started with Gartner: to me Genesys was the software arm of Alcatel, and you could not have one without the other.  In other words, Alcatel led with voice and telephony products, and if the client wanted a software product, they would offer the eService Suite from Genesys. Somewhere in the mid-2000s this began to shift.  I remember in 2004 when I was doing the research…

• The SCRM-E2.0 Convergence: Train Wreck or Chunnel?

  Esteban Kolsky

  15 Jan 2010 | 12:25 pm

  On Tuesday January 12th we had discussion on the convergence between SCRM and Enterprise 2.0. My introduction to the topic summarized what I see as the main issue: SCRM and Enterprise 2.0 are heading in the same direction (customer-centricity), talking about the same issues (engagement), using the same technologies (collaboration), and solving similar problems (culture, politics, adoption) — yet, we pretend we are talking about two very separate, different things. Not only are they very similar, but whether you are collaborating internally among users, or externally with clients,…

• My Foray into Enterprise 2.0

  Esteban Kolsky

  10 Jan 2010 | 11:29 pm

  I am a glutton for punishment, apparently.  Not only I have not learned from diving into Social CRM early on, but I am trying the same fate now with Enterprise 2.0. Why? Convergence. If you remember, this is one of my key topics for 2010.  No, we will not witness convergence between Social CRM and Enterprise 2.0 in 2010.  However, the smart organizations will start their move towards it in 2010.  And they will make inroads.  This is a three-to-five year trend that will gain momentum between now and 2012.  The road is long, and lots of changes await.  The most traditional path to…

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  Customers Are Talking

• If you read this blog, you could have seen Toyota’s problems coming…

  John Caddell

  4 Feb 2010 | 5:24 am

  Does anyone remember this post from nearly 3 years ago? Toyota: The Inevitable Decline Starts Now 18 Feb 2007 It’s Toyota’s PR person’s dream: a front-page story in the Sunday New York Times magazine (by Jon Gertner), depicting your company as a comic-book superhero, slaying its competitors amid exclamatory sound effects (VVRRRMM!). And the article’s teaser hailing your company as not only “not only the best automaker in the world but also maybe the best corporation.” The PR dream is the executive’s nightmare. Not only is it difficult to build from…

• Customers are talking: HBR says customer service is a strategic function

  John Caddell

  3 Feb 2010 | 6:39 pm

  The Jan-Feb HBR features the article “Rethinking Marketing,” by Roland Rust, Christine Moorman and Gaurav Bhalla. In it, the authors argue that B2C companies need to adopt strategies that put the customer in the center, and tailor products and services to small segments, rather than pushing products and services onto the mass market. VRM advocates will encounter in the piece lots to disagree with around “managing” customers and pushing offers on them, Including a rather gruesome example of “one insurance & financial services company (that has) proved adept…

• “Backshoring”: the new buzzword that may give you a job

  John Caddell

  27 Jan 2010 | 3:54 am

  A recent post from Booz & Company’s “Strategy + Business” introduced a new term: “backshoring” – an emerging trend of returning manufacturing from an offshore location to the home country (”The Case For Backshoring“). This is especially important for US business, which has been a very aggressive proponent of offshoring for the past decade. Why is this reversal happening? In short, the conditions that made outsourcing look so attractive have changed utterly: …The logic behind backshoring is compelling enough that it cannot be easily…

• Department of Brandular Deception – what is a Samsonite anyway?

  John Caddell

  25 Jan 2010 | 9:02 am

  The old backpack briefcase had a hole in it, and it wasn’t healthy to carry 15 pounds of stuff on my shoulders anymore, so I searched online and found a great deal on a Samsonite rolling briefcase. It arrived late last week. My wife said, “Does that have the Samsonite lifetime warranty? Sometimes when you get something that’s discontinued, they don’t have the lifetime warranty. You should check.” Fast forward to today. I was moving my stuff from the old briefcase to the new one, and saw a card from Samsonite. “Thank you for purchasing a fine Samsonite…

• Risk is risk: an idea for spotting emerging asset bubbles

  John Caddell

  21 Jan 2010 | 3:50 am

  One of the causes of the recent financial meltdown was a bubble in the value of housing assets that emerged over a number of years. Some people saw this while it was happening, but could do little to impact things. When the bubble burst, institutions and individuals suffered tremendous damage that is still hurting people today. An important question is this: can asset bubbles be spotted earlier, and, if so, can measures be taken that can minimize the impact of these bubbles? Sendhil Mullainathan of Harvard Business School thinks to the answers to both questions is yes. In one of the 10…

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  Customers Rock!

• The Social Customer

  Becky Carroll

  4 Feb 2010 | 5:07 pm

  I have been reading quite a few blogs and comments lately about how social media and customer service need to come together. There has also been a lot of talk about the Social Customer and its importance. I wholeheartedly agree, and as you might imagine, I have a few quick thoughts on the subject which I will share below (inspired by some comments on left on Esteban Kolsky’s post at the blog TheSocialCustomer). Service is the New Marketing Been hearing that for ages; I even spoke at  a conference of that name 2 years ago! But what I believe is really trying to be said by this statement…

• Focus on Customer Service in 2010 (Finally?)

  Becky Carroll

  18 Jan 2010 | 11:11 pm

  This may be it. This may be the year that it finally happens. 2010 may just be the year that companies start to focus on their customers and serving them well. Now, I am cautiously optimistic about this focus on customer service, but let me tell you why I feel this way. - Brands are using a focus on customers as a competitive differentiator in their advertisements. Frank Eliason mentions the new commercial for the Chase Sapphire credit card service. It features the ability to talk “directly to a live person when I call” rather than being routed around an automated call queue. The…

• What Gets in the Way of Offering Great Customer Service?

  Becky Carroll

  8 Jan 2010 | 1:09 am

  I am enjoying my new radio program, Customers Rock! Radio, and on it I have the opportunity to talk with many different people. Some are from businesses, some are consultants, and others are authors. Later this month (January 25), I will have the privilege of hosting Barry Moltz on my program. Barry is the author of the new book BAM! Delivering Customer Service in a Self-Service World, recently chosen as a 2009 Best Small Business Book. Barry is also my guest author today here on the first Customers Rock! post of 2010. Enjoy! What Gets in the Way of Offering Great Customer Service? Guest…

• I’m Back! Plus, some great links for holiday reading

  Becky Carroll

  28 Dec 2009 | 8:05 pm

  I realize I have not been around much here on the blog these past few months. I have missed it, but more than that, I have missed the conversations I have with you, my readers! My plan for 2010 is to blog at least weekly, possibly more often if I keep the blog posts relatively short (like a Posterous-type post). Thank you all for hanging in there with me – I really appreciate your loyalty to Customers Rock! over these past 3 years (yes, I just celebrated this blog’s 3-year blogiversary in December!). More to come… much more. I have been spending more time lately on Twitter,…

• Bathrooms and Customer Experience

  Becky Carroll

  30 Oct 2009 | 7:50 pm

  Yes, it is that time of year when the Bathroom Blogfest comes around and our thoughts turn to those forgotten spaces where the customer experience, and customer perceptions, are still impacted. Yes, even the bathroom at your establishment (restaurant, retail store, hotel) reflects on your brand. As you know, here at Customers Rock! there is a strong focus on looking at your business from the customer’s perspective. Sometimes, that perspective takes place in the restroom, and this blogfest focuses on exactly that. The Bathroom Blogfest 2009 has been taking place all week this week, with a…

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  Últimas noticias - lanacion.com

• Murió una argentina en Francia tras recibir el impacto de una bala perdida

  lanacion.com

  Se llamaba Luz Bonadeo y tenía 35 años; trabajaba en una dependencia del gobierno de la Ciudad; compañeros de la joven contaron a lanacion.com que al parecer un cazador le habría disparado por accidente

• Techint le reclama a Chávez el pago por Sidor

  lanacion.com

  Además, China es ahora el primer exportador mundial; Opel echa a más de 8000 empleados en Europa; el Prius se suma a la lista de problemas de Toyota; Fábrega asume en el Banco Nación; qué le preguntarías al gerente del hotel Four Seasons

• Bieler, desafectado de la selección local

  lanacion.com

  Por un esguince en el tobillo izquierdo, el delantero de Racing se quedó fuera de la delegación que, esta noche, viaja a Mar del Plata para enfrentar mañana a Jamaica; la lista la integrarán 17 futbolistas

• La Justicia citó a Jaime y a Schiavi por irregularidades en Transporte

  lanacion.com

  El juez Claudio Bonadío convocó a declarar al ex funcionario y al actual titular de la secretaría para el 5 de marzo; se investigan supuestos viajes en aviones privados pagados por empresarios

• "Caen dos gotas y tenemos pánico"

  lanacion.com

  Una de las vecinas que vivió el alud contó a lanacion.com que, en cuanto empezó la temporada de lluvias, los tartagalenses que viven cerca del río se turnaron para hacer guardias y vigilar las aguas; cómo es la vida cotidiana después de la invasión del barro

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  Clarin.com Ultimo Momento

• Uruguay: denuncian a un matrimonio argentino por obligar a desnudarse a sus mucamas

  9 Feb 2010 | 12:15 pm

  Acusaron a las empleadas de robarles 500 pesos uruguayos, las retuvieron durante una hora y las hicieron desvestirse. Luego, uno de los hijos de la pareja confesó que él había tomado el dinero.

• Chávez no le pagó a Techint US$ 300 millones por la estatización de Sidor

  9 Feb 2010 | 11:38 am

  El gobierno venezolano incumplió con una deuda que tenía que saldar ayer. Tiene 15 días para regularizar la situación. La nota completa en iEco.

• Cristina dijo que Néstor Kirchner "está bárbaro" y que mañana le darán el alta

  9 Feb 2010 | 10:30 am

  La Presidenta estuvo alrededor de 40 minutos en la clínica donde los médicos le dijeron que su esposo sigue evoluciona. El diputado bonaerense dejó la terapia intensiva para pasar a cuidados generales.

• Peajes: las nuevas concesiones vendrán con subas de hasta 166%

  9 Feb 2010 | 10:00 am

  Los aumentos regirán desde enero de 2011, para las rutas más transitadas. Hay polémica porque los valores ajustados no respetarían la ley nacional del peaje.

• Mafia de los medicamentos: rechazan la excarcelación de Zanola

  9 Feb 2010 | 9:56 am

  La Cámara de Casación Penal le negó el beneficio al gremialista porque consideró que podría eludir a la Justicia o entorpecer la investigación. Está procesado como miembro de una asociación ilícita dedicada a la comercialización de remedios adulterados.

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• Gana el peso 14 centavos y cerró en 13.14$

  evillarreal

  9 Feb 2010 | 12:37 pm

  Ciudad de México.- El precio del dólar retrocedió 14 centavos, al venderse hasta en 13.14 pesos, en comparación con la cotización de ayer; y a la compra, la cotización más baja fue de 12.74 pesos en sucursales bancarias del Distrito Federal. En sentido opuesto, el euro en operación a la venta llegó a 18.20 pesos, tres centavos más que el lunes, mientras que el yen se ofertó hasta en 0.149 pesos. El precio del dólar para solventar obligaciones pagaderas en el República Mexicana es de 13.0836, de acuerdo con el Banco de México (Banxico).

• Wall Street sube ante posible ayuda a Grecia

  evillarreal

  9 Feb 2010 | 12:28 pm

  Nueva York.- Las acciones de Estados Unidos subían luego de que una fuente de alto rango de la coalición del gobierno de Alemania dijo que los países de la zona euro decidieron ayudar a Grecia, que atraviesa serios problemas financieros. El dólar retrocedía frente al euro, lo que impulsaba los precios de las materias primas y, en consecuencia, las acciones de productores de recursos naturales. leer más

• Google Buzz competirá con Facebook y Twitter

  jessica

  9 Feb 2010 | 12:21 pm

  México.- El gigante de la Internet anunció el lanzamiento de su red social: Google Buzz. La nueva creación permitirá a los usuarios interactuar en tiempo real. La red funcionará a través del correo Gmail, mediante el que se podrá actualizar el estado de la cuenta, así como compartir fotos, vídeos, textos y enlaces. Similar a lo que se puede hacer en Twitter y Facebook. leer más

• Pide sector de telecomunicaciones a gobierno, dar prioridad al ancho de banda

  evillarreal

  9 Feb 2010 | 12:17 pm

  Ciudad de México.- La industria de telecomunicaciones se unirá para solicitar al gobierno federal que pongan en su agenda el tema de la banda ancha como una prioridad. En la conferencia donde se anunció la realización de B3 Forum Broadband for business 2010, nueva versión para Expocomm, los presidentes de las diferentes cámaras y asociaciones del sector afirmaron que este evento será el marco ideal para que las autoridades escuchen el llamado de la industria sobre la necesidad de impulsar este servicio. leer más

• Aeropuertos de Grecia serán cerrados mañana

  evillarreal

  9 Feb 2010 | 12:14 pm

  Atenas.- Todos los vuelos de y hacia Grecia serán interrumpidos mañana debido a que los trabajadores de la aviación civil se unirán al paro de actividades convocado por empleados públicos, mientras el país intenta contener su crisis de endeudamiento que afecta a la Unión Europea. Las protestas contra las medidas de austeridad tomadas por el gobierno, que incluyen congelar salarios y el corte de bonificaciones, afectarán a escuelas, hospitales, oficinas de recaudación y de gobierno. leer más

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  Isopixel

• La última de Improv Everywhere

  lolarocker

  8 Feb 2010 | 6:37 pm

  La gente de Improve Everywhere tiene como objetivo sacar un poco de su realidad cotidiana a la gente, otorgándoles momentos que les permitan sonreir, darse un respiro de la rutina y ver algo distinto. En esta ocasión se quitaron los pantalones en la ciudad de Nueva York, más de 5 mil personas participaron. Les dejamos el video para que ustedes también disfruten y se rian un rato, si quieren ver más imágenes pueden ir al sitio de Improve Everywhere. [LINK]

• Bosques solares para el estacionamiento.

  lolarocker

  8 Feb 2010 | 6:19 pm

  Cuando vi las imágenes de esto lo primero que pensé fue: Que lindo se ven los toldos de ese estacionamiento, sin embargo, más allá de la estética, este estacionamiento cuenta con importantes propiedades relacionadas al diseño sustentable y a la generación de energía. Diseñados por el arquitecto holandés Neville Mars estos toldos para estacionamiento cuentan con celdas fotovoltaicas capaces de captar los rayos solares y transformarlos en electricidad. La idea de estas particulares sombrillas es que los autos eléctricos alojados debajo de su sombra puedan se cargados con la energía…

• Matt Stuart, fotografía de instantes

  lolarocker

  7 Feb 2010 | 6:52 pm

  Aún no se si creerme que este fotógrafo británico no haga fotomontajes para lograr sus peculiares imágenes, si no es eso, entonces él realmente logra capturar la imagen adecuada en el momento adecuado. Algunos ejemplos:

• Ahora si, la nueva Colección de Adidas Star Wars está disponible

  lolarocker

  7 Feb 2010 | 6:29 pm

  El pasado 4 de Febrero por fin salió a la venta de manera oficial la nueva línea de productos Adidas con temática de Star Wars. Tenis, camisetas y chamarras están ya en el mercado esperando a que la fuerza te acompañe (debe ser necesaria para desembolsar lo que cuesten estos productos) y vayas a comprarte algo. Les dejo el promocional oficial, para que vayan viendo si se animan a comprarse algo:

• El Batallón 52 y el Bicentenario

  lolarocker

  7 Feb 2010 | 6:15 pm

  Sabemos bien que este año México celebra su bicentenario de la Independencia y su centenario de la Revolución, razones por las cuales el gobierno de nuestro país ha decidido echar la casa por la ventana, realizando fiestas, actividades culturales, festivales,  construyendo carreteras, organizando encuentros deportivos, entre otras actividades. Batallón 52 es una de estas importantes actividades en torno al Bicentenario, 26 cortometrajes de 90 segundos cada uno, forman parte de una importante colección conmemorativa. 13 de estos cortos tienen como temática central el movimiento de…

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  Mexico News

• Aniston 'helping Mexico' with birthday holiday

  9 Feb 2010 | 8:58 am

  The former Friends actress jetted off to the sun-soaked resort of Los Cabos last week with pals Courteney Cox, Sheryl Crow and rumoured love interest Gerard Butler for a week of fun leading up to her birthday on Wednesday .

• Mexico arrests 2 reputed leaders of Tijuana gang

  9 Feb 2010 | 12:47 am

  Mexican federal police arrested two suspected gang leaders Monday, delivering another big blow to a brutal drug cartel that terrorized the border city of Tijuana for several years.

• Report: 5.7 Earthquake Rattles Southern Mexico

  8 Feb 2010 | 8:11 pm

  A magnitude 5.7-earthquake shook southern Mexico near the Oaxaca coast Monday, setting off evacuation alarms and swaying buildings as far away as Mexico City.

• Wash. girl, 13, reports fiance missing

  8 Feb 2010 | 3:29 pm

  A 13-year-old girl in Bridgeport told the Douglas County sheriff's office that her fiance had disappeared.

• Continuous heavy rains hit SW Mexico, killing 18

  8 Feb 2010 | 8:32 am

  Continuous rains have struck Mexico's southwest state of Michoacan for three days, killing at least 18 people, said the authorities on Friday.

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  The Official Google Blog - Latin America

• Presentando Google Buzz

  Emmanuel Evita

  9 Feb 2010 | 5:08 am

  Con cada vez más personas que se comunican unas con otras de manera online, Internet social ha crecido hasta convertirse en el principal medio para compartir cosas interesantes, comunicarle al mundo en tiempo real lo que cada uno está haciendo y mantenerse más conectado con más gente. En el mundo actual, caracterizado por mensajes de estado, tweets y actualizaciones constantes, se vuelve cada vez más complicado navegar a través de tanta información y mantener conversaciones que tengan sentido.Nuestra creencia es que organizar la información social en la Web -encontrar relevancia en…

• Vancouver: brisas moderadas, visibilidad total

  Emmanuel Evita

  8 Feb 2010 | 6:52 am

  La vista desde Whistler Mountain es algo que nadie debería perderse: laderas encarpadas, franjas nevadas y, más abajo, lagos apacibles. El lugar ha cambiado desde los tiempos en que viví y esquié allí, hace algunos años. Ahora hay muchas más casas y un sistema de aerosillas mucho mejor. Sin embargo, lo que no cambia es esa sensación tan única que parece explotar en los picos nevados, esa sensación de libertad en comunión con la naturaleza.Justo a tiempo para los Juegos de Vancouver y Whistler, nos complace compartir esa maravillosa vista con el mundo a través de Street View en…

• América Latina y la penetración de Internet

  Alberto Arebalos

  5 Feb 2010 | 6:45 am

  La última vez que alguien decidió contarlos (y eso fue hace poco) los internautas sumaron unos 1.730 millones de personas distribuídas en los cinco continentes del planeta, aunque particularmente concentrados en Asia, América del Norte (sin incluir a México) y Europa (ver aqui). Si bien en números absolutos Asia aventaja por mucho a las otras regiones con más de 738 millones de internautas, la penetración de Internet con respecto a la población es de aproximadamente dos tercios de la que existe en América Latina. Y uno de cada 10 internautas, vive en nuestra región. Con casi 180…

• Los Principios de Privacidad de Google

  Daniel Helft

  28 Jan 2010 | 6:18 am

  (Para conmemorar el Día Internacional de Privacidad de Datos, un día celebrado principalmente en los Estados Unidos, Canadá y Europa, queríamos aprovechar la ocasión para publicar aquí nuestros principios de privacidad.) La misión de Google es organizar la información del mundo y hacerla universalmente accesible y útil. Siempre estamos detrás de ideas innovadoras y estiramos los límites de la tecnología existente para proveer mayor acceso a la información. Al hacer esto, reconocemos nuestra responsabilidad de proteger la privacidad de los usuarios. Creemos que es posible entregar…

• Nuevas Imágenes de Puerto Príncipe, Haití

  Daniel Helft

  21 Jan 2010 | 8:12 am

  Tras el devastador terremoto en Haití, organizaciones de rescate han estado trabajando sin descanso en el terreno, mientras que ciudadanos de todo el mundo han intentado ayudar en todo lo posible. En el equipo de Google Geo también hemos buscado maneras de brindar apoyo a los rescatistas mediante nuestros mapas y herramientas.La semana pasada, junto con nuestro socio GeoEye, publicamos imágenes satelitales actualizadas de Haití en Google Earth y en Google Maps. Estas imágenes ilustran la devastación y las condiciones actuales en la zona. Hicimos que estos datos estuvieran disponibles…

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  El Universal: México

• Definirán el jueves cita de Lozano en San Lázaro

  9 Feb 2010 | 12:25 pm

  En la comparecencia del titular de la Secretaría del Trabajo se prevé que explique la problemática del desempleo y la situación jurídica de los extrabajadores del SME

• Sarkozy pide a Córdova interceda por Cassez

  9 Feb 2010 | 12:21 pm

  En la ceremonia de entrega de la Legión de Honor al secretario mexicano de Salud, el mandatario francés les solicitó que le ayude a que no se olvide a la mujer sentenciada a 60 años por secuestro en México

• Segob analizará lluvias con DF y Edomex

  9 Feb 2010 | 11:48 am

  Fernando Gómez Mont, secretario de Gobernación, anunció una junta urgente para adelantar medidas necesarias para evitar que se incrementen los desastres en la temporada

• Diputado pide reducir presupuesto a partidos

  9 Feb 2010 | 11:45 am

  La iniciativa del priísta José Rubí Salazar pretende elevar a rango constitucional que el monto que cada partido político recibe, sea destinado a la capacitación para el liderazgo de las mujeres

• La Corte decidió que el IETU se queda

  9 Feb 2010 | 11:32 am

  Los ministros de la SCJN avalaron la constitucionalidad del Impuesto Empresarial a Tasa Única y rechazaron los recursos legales presentados por varias empresas

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  WSJ.com: Americas (Spanish)

• Esperanzas de un rescate de Grecia impulsan a los mercados

  9 Feb 2010 | 10:55 am

  Las esperanzas de que Grecia reciba ayuda financiera daban un impulso a las acciones en Estados Unidos, que se encontraban a media sesión del martes en camino a registrar su mayor avance en tres meses.

• El Banco de Espa �a da un espaldarazo al plan del gobierno para reducir el d �ficit

  9 Feb 2010 | 9:54 am

  Un alto cargo del Banco de España dijo el martes que las medidas anunciadas por el Gobierno para reducir el déficit público van en la dirección correcta.

• Toyota llamar � a reparaci �n a sus autos h �bridos en todo el mundo

  9 Feb 2010 | 9:46 am

  Toyota Motor Corp. anunció el martes que llamará a reparaciones a cerca de 437.000 vehículos híbridos de alta tecnología en importantes mercados, incluido Japón, para reparar problemas en el sistema de frenado, lo que agrega nuevas presiones a una situación que está afectando la reputación del mayor fabricante japonés de automóviles.

• China super � a Alemania como el mayor exportador del mundo en 2009

  9 Feb 2010 | 8:20 am

  Alemania perdió su estatus de mayor exportador del mundo el año pasado, debido a que la abrupta desaceleración de la economía perjudicó a los niveles de inversiones en todo el mundo, según cifras de la Oficina Federal de Estadísticas publicadas el martes.

• JAL decide mantener su alianza con American Airlines

  9 Feb 2010 | 6:58 am

  Japan Airlines Corp. anunció el martes que mantendrá su actual alianza con American Airlines de AMR Corp., con lo que rechaza la oferta de Delta Air Lines Inc., el rival estadounidense de American.

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  El Universal: Pymes

• Estiman crecerá 10% el sector franquicias

  8 Feb 2010 | 11:22 pm

  Invitan a la Feria Internacional de Franquicias que se llevará a cabo del 4 al 6 de marzo en la ciudad de México, con la participación de 300 negocios exitosos

• Investigación de mercados para PyMES

  7 Feb 2010 | 10:09 pm

  Tal indagación permitirá al empresario conocer y saber qué tan factible es la ubicación del nuevo negocio, entre otros factores

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  Social Media Business Council

• Social media case study from Yann Gourvennec of Orange Business Services

  SMBC Staff

  9 Feb 2010 | 7:35 am

  Come to BlogWell: How Big Brands Use Social Media on February 16 in San Diego to hear Starbucks, Clorox, Intuit, Avery Dennison, USAA, Community Medical Centers, State Farm Insurance, and the U.S. Navy share case studies in corporate social media. You’ll learn how to get started, get past roadblocks, and make your social media program phenomenal — in one afternoon, for just $250. You’ll get practical, how-to advice on creating great content, getting management buy-in, educating employees, keeping lawyers and regulators happy, simple and ethical disclosure, and engaging fans.

• Social media case study from Valeria Maltoni of SunGard

  SMBC Staff

  8 Feb 2010 | 7:35 am

  Come to BlogWell: How Big Brands Use Social Media on February 16 in San Diego to hear Starbucks, Clorox, Intuit, Avery Dennison, USAA, Community Medical Centers, State Farm Insurance, and the U.S. Navy share case studies in corporate social media. You’ll learn how to get started, get past roadblocks, and make your social media program phenomenal — in one afternoon, for just $250. You’ll get practical, how-to advice on creating great content, getting management buy-in, educating employees, keeping lawyers and regulators happy, simple and ethical disclosure, and engaging fans.

• Welcome to the newest members of the SMBC: Scripps Travel Channel, AstraZeneca, and TD Bank Financial Group!

  SMBC Staff

  5 Feb 2010 | 1:00 pm

  We’d like to publicly welcome our newest members of the Social Media Business Council: Scripps Travel Channel AstraZeneca TD Bank Financial Group They’re joining the likes of Dell, Walmart, Nokia, SAP, GM and Coke – and more than 90 other fantastic, global brands – as members of the Social Media Business Council collaborating every day on how to create successful, scalable, and sustainable social media programs at large organizations. If you’re leading social media at a major enterprise, we’d love to have you join our family. Click here to learn more. Share:

• Upcoming SMBC events

  SMBC Staff

  5 Feb 2010 | 7:35 am

  2/9 ConAgra Foods: Embracing a social media culture (Private member call) Click here 2/16 BlogWell San Diego: Starbucks, Clorox, USAA, TurboTax, Avery Dennison, Community Medical Centers, State Farm Insurance, and the U.S. Navy share case studies on corporate social media. You’ll learn how to get started, get past roadblocks, and make your social media program phenomenal. (Public event) Click here 2/19 SMBC: Building social media to scale (Private member call) Click here 2/26 Microsoft: Learning (and playing) with Ribbon Hero (Private member call) Click here Share:

• Research: Overall social media engagement up 30% while on-site engagement down 50%

  SMBC Staff

  4 Feb 2010 | 8:20 am

  In a recent study by PostRank, Measuring Engagement of the Social Web: ‘07-’09, research shows that while year-over-year on-site engagement (like post comments) are down 50%, overall engagement is actually up 30%. Other findings from the study: Off-site channels have dramatically increased in contributions to overall engagement, increasing from 1% in 2007 to nearly 30% in 2009 Trackback contribution to total engagement is down from 19% in 2007 to 3% in 2009 Facebook and Twitter are increasing the lifespan of stories as they continue to improve information discovery Read the full…

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  Understanding the Sales Force

• The Sales Assessment that Dave Kurlan Developed

  Dave Kurlan

  8 Feb 2010 | 12:27 pm

  Understanding the Sales Force by Dave KurlanI am often asked how I can write so many articles.  I have a few answers for that:Compared to the demands of writing my two books, Mindless Selling and Baseline Selling, writing a couple of paragraphs every day is a piece of cake;From my unique vantage point as a thought leader in two industries - the Sales Development Industry and the Assessment Industry, there is more article material than I will ever have time to write about;I usually choose topics that are bothering me at that particular moment in time.This is my 600th article since the…

• How Does the Salesperson Affect Price Shoppers and Negotiators?

  Dave Kurlan

  7 Feb 2010 | 8:06 pm

  Understanding the Sales Force by Dave KurlanMy friend, Dan Caramanico, is one of the authors of The Optimal Salespersson, a book Selling Power said is one of the ten you should read in 2010. Dan read my article about the Difference Between Selling to Negotiators and Price Shoppers and sent me this question:This is a great distinction.  Any suggestion on how you can tell one from the other on a sales call?  I know what the effect is if you hire a salesperson who is a price shopper.  Any way to tease that information out of your data?Dan, I believe they are fairly easy to…

• Real Live Coaching Call - Coaching a Salesperson

  Dave Kurlan

  7 Feb 2010 | 11:38 am

  Understanding the Sales Force by Dave KurlanClients who receive sales management coaching, training and development come to know what an effective sales coaching conversation sounds like.  You may not be privy to that so you might find last week's episode of Meet the Sales Experts helpful.Chris Mott was my guest and he coached a live caller for about 30 minutes.  Listen to the show for a better sense of what every coaching conversation should sound like.  The following email was received from the live caller the day after the scheduled sales call: "I did as you and Chris…

• 6 Steps to Sales Mastery - How to Get Salespeople to Evolve

  Dave Kurlan

  4 Feb 2010 | 12:50 am

  Understanding the Sales Force by Dave KurlanSalespeople must evolve through six levels of development before they can consistently and successfully execute any process, concept, strategy or tactic they are trained and coached to perform. The six levels are:ListeningUnderstandingInternalizingEmbracingAttemptingMasteringIf there are hiccups at any one of those levels, they may continue on to the next level, but with an improper balance. For example, if they weren't listening carefully, and didn't quite hear the entire message, they will inappropriately approach the next 5 levels.  If they…

• Your Salespeople Can't Even Do That?

  Dave Kurlan

  2 Feb 2010 | 8:10 pm

  Understanding the Sales Force by Dave KurlanYesterday, when meeting with a new client, he expressed his frustration over salespeople having difficulty with voice mail.  That's the simple complaint. It's really much more.  First the voice mail part: it's not getting calls returned, not getting through, not reaching decision makers. The bigger concern is that the issue is just now surfacing even though the salespeople have been with the company for months now.  The biggest concern is that the VP/Sales Manager should have known about and solved this problem the first week it was…

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  C-Level, Relationship Selling Blog

• C-Level Sales Training Tip 16 - Conquer Executive Intimidation - Eliminate Sabotaging Self Doubt

  Sam Manfer

  5 Feb 2010 | 12:56 pm

  Learn how to turn around reluctance or shyness to pursue powerful and/or desirable individuals in this article. Change intimidation into productive and enviable relationships. Intimidation is a form of self doubt which keeps us from networking and approaching the people we’d like to meet and know we should meet, i.e. influential and C-level decision makers.

• C-Level Sales Training Tip 15 - Creating the Confidence Necessary to Win-Over C-Level Executives

  Sam Manfer

  25 Jan 2010 | 4:48 pm

  Confidence is what C-level decision-makers want to see in their selling partners. The best way to become confident is to prepare. Here’s how.

• C-Level Sales Training Tip 14 - Credibility Is the Magic for Selling to C-Level Executives

  Sam Manfer

  14 Jan 2010 | 5:59 pm

  Credibility is paramount to sell, and develop professional relationships with C-levels and other powerful people. This article will explain the simple process to establish and enhance your credibility with C-Level executives, doctors, and other influential people.

• Sales Management - Your Next Sale Is the Game of Your Life

  Sam Manfer

  6 Jan 2010 | 10:14 am

  No matter you're a salesperson or sales manager every sale has a significant and immediate impact on your career. Everyday you play the game of your life. Learn how to make it to the playoffs and win with this article.

• C-Level Selling Tip 13 - Replacing Embedded Competitors

  Sam Manfer

  21 Dec 2009 | 3:57 pm

  Steal share from competitors within 6 weeks. Learn how easy it is to get business from your competitors’ top customers.

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  Sales and Sales Management Blog

• Guest Article: “Developing Sales Professionals in Today’s Complex Selling Environment,” by Jeff Thull

  Paul McCord

  8 Feb 2010 | 6:19 am

  Developing Sales Professionals in Today’s Complex Selling Environment By Jeff Thull Today’s marketplace is characterized by the increasing complexity of the business problems we solve and the solutions we offer that address them. Combine that with a highly competitive market that offers abundant solution options, and you’ll find that many customers are overwhelmed with choices and are looking for guidance in making quality business decisions. Salespeople are the obvious source for this guidance, and there now may be more people influencing the decision to buy as it moves…

• A Couple of Blog Milestones and Some Other Stuff

  Paul McCord

  5 Feb 2010 | 6:21 am

  A Positive Milestone: 1,000 comments As every blogger knows, it’s tough to get people to interact with you on your blog.  I took me a couple of years to finally get to the point where comments became somewhat frequent.  I’m pleased to say that this morning the blog registered its 1,000th comment.  Not a giant milestone, but still, progress. A Negative Milestone: 20,000 spam comments Coincidentally, this morning the blog also blocked its 20,000th spam comment.  Spam, I’ve found, is the real cost of blogging.  Spam comes at you in all forms, whether bots with sex, casino, or watch…

• Guest Article: “Turn Selling Around,” by Ram Charan

  Paul McCord

  2 Feb 2010 | 8:07 am

  Turn Selling Around by Ram Charan     The heart of the new approach to selling is an intense focus on the prosperity of your customers. This is a radical departure from what most salespeople and selling organizations do. The entire psychological orientation is shifted 180 degrees. No longer do you measure your own success first. Instead, you measure success by how well your customers are doing with your help. You’re not focused on selling a specific product or service; you’re focused on how your company can help the customer succeed in all the ways that are important to that…

• Networking That Really Works: A FREE Prospecting Webinar on Feb 18

  Paul McCord

  1 Feb 2010 | 6:34 am

  Are you spending time at the chamber networking event or the morning leads exchange group and finding you’re just wasting precious time and energy for no return at all? Unless you’re an auto mechanic, a personal banker, sell cars, or are a dentist, the chamber event and the leads exchange group probably aren’t going to help you at all.  If you sell sophisticated products and services or high dollar items, more than likely you’re not going to be meeting great prospects or getting many quality leads at these venues.  The majority of people at the chamber event are other sellers…

• Book Review: Selling Change: 101+ Secrets for Growing Sales by Leading Change by Brett Clay

  Paul McCord

  31 Jan 2010 | 8:16 am

  Change is a natural part of all life and, consequently, a natural part of our sales lives.  Nothing is static; not our products, not our prospects, not our clients, and certainly not our competitors.  Change is the only constant.  But surprisingly enough, change as a central theme of selling has seldom been addressed head-on.  Brett Clay in Selling Change: 101+ Secrets for Growing Sales by Leading Change (ARIVA Publishing; 2010) changes that.  As you can tell by the title of the book, change is the central theme of his sales philosophy. Clay argues that our job as a seller isn’t to…

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  Culture-Buzz

• Search is the New Art of Storytelling

  Angela Natividad

  9 Feb 2010 | 4:37 am

  Super Bowl Sunday's come and gone, but we're still reeling over the sublime TV debut of Google's "Search Stories" campaign. "Parisian Love," which aired in the third quarter of the game, relates a classic story — an American finding love in Paris — in a fresh new way: the language of search. The effort's interesting for a few reasons. To start with, Google went against common wisdom that if you're gonna blow cash on a Super Bowl spot, it better be on something incendiary and new. "Parisian Love" has been circulating the 'net for the last three months, and the positive responses it…

• Don't Date; Get Down to the Digital Nitty-Gritty

  Angela Natividad

  9 Feb 2010 | 4:14 am

  Being shocked over sexting is so last year. Literally. So what to do once the horror wears off? Admit it's the new face of romance, at least according to Red Tettemer. The Philly-based agency concludes "the world has moved past the quaint ritual of getting to know one another face to face." This means flowers, chocolate and dinner are dated analog rituals, and you should probably leave them to people that still have '90s haircuts. This year, grab the future by the balls and sext with Red Tettemer. You heard us: sext with Red Tettemer. From now through Valentine's Day, RedTettemer.com will be…

• Pretty in Pink: The Fiat 500

  Angela Natividad

  8 Feb 2010 | 4:06 am

  Hoping to draw more female clients (and kindly drain shelves of a product that chafes our eyeballs), Fiat introduces Pink My Ride, in which 131 bottles of pink nail polish are exhausted to paint a white Fiat 500 the colour of Pepto Bismol. This is compelling, if only because you don't have to witness the painstaking effort of one peppy-looking guy, varnishing a car with a teeny nail brush, in real-time. It takes us two hours to paint our own nails, and it took him four days to finish the Fiat; we bet he was vomming en rose by the end of it. Painfully adorable work. But — because the world…

• App Saves Life of Haiti Aid Worker

  Angela Natividad

  5 Feb 2010 | 12:27 am

  Here's a story that probably keeps Steve Jobs' toes warm at night: one Dan Woolley, an aid worker in Haiti, credited his ability to survive under rubble for 65 hours to the American Heart Association's Pocket First Aid & CPR App. When the story was picked up by CNN, he called the $3.99 application a "high-tech version of a Swiss Army knife that enabled me to treat my own injuries, track time, stay awake and stay alive." Impressive, given that our own iPhones won't even stay powered for six hours' worth of Bejeweled sessions. The resulting coverage hiked the AHA app to the top 50 paid apps in…

• Playboy's Next Cover Girl Shall Rise from the 'Net

  Angela Natividad

  5 Feb 2010 | 12:05 am

  Ahh, the internet finally comes full-circle. Playboy, which represents one of the classier ways you can sell your skin without gaining too much skank cred, has made it possible for aspiring cover girls to build their books on the 'net. CastingPlayboy.com, created by Grey/Buenos Aires, sports a virtual photographer who'll "shoot" girls in their own depressing little 40-square-meter studio apartments. Strut for dude while he records your best angles. At the end of this lonely pretend photo shoot, girls can compile their own digital books and invite friends to rate them. The books remain on…

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  MarketingVOX - The Voice of Online Marketing

• It's a Mobile World: How Does Search Adapt?

  9 Feb 2010 | 9:30 am

  Mobile SEO, still a nascent industry as it is, is getting even trickier. New developments in the mobile industry - such as growing mobile advertising opportunities and technologies, new...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/marketingvox/rss/~4/_jP4Rekl-1w" height="1" width="1"/>

• AccuWeather Relaunches with Custom Content Ad Opps

  9 Feb 2010 | 9:24 am

  AccuWeather is relaunching its weather site next week with a streamlined site and the opportunity for advertisers to create custom content. It is making the new site available for preview as well...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/marketingvox/rss/~4/Xz9NSLpo16c" height="1" width="1"/>

• Siri Finds Local Businesses, Makes Reservations

  9 Feb 2010 | 9:21 am

  Siri, a spin-off from Standford University, is releasing an app that marries cognitive software with voice-activated search. The result: a smarter search function that takes into account the users'...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/marketingvox/rss/~4/kYH5QQ52h5A" height="1" width="1"/>

• Ad Network Use Grows as Marketers Promote Brands Online

  9 Feb 2010 | 9:16 am

  Sixty-nine percent of media planners and agencies now use online advertising networks as part of their digital ad buys - a 24 percent increase in the past 18 months, according to a new study...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/marketingvox/rss/~4/_VFKMlPPmuI" height="1" width="1"/>

• Teens Text 10 Times per Hour: Nielsen

  9 Feb 2010 | 9:14 am

  American teenagers send an average of 10 text messages per hour they are not in school or sleeping, according to research by The Nielsen Company. By analyzing more than 40,000 monthly U.S. mobile...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/marketingvox/rss/~4/K7bD8Q5WPRY" height="1" width="1"/>

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  MarketingProfs How-To Articles

• Five Simple Link-Building Tips

  9 Feb 2010 | 8:00 am

  Link-building services are the most commonly outsourced aspect of SEO. The process involves finding qualified and thematically relevant one-way linking partners who will link to your website. Spammy, automated products often never cultivate valuable links and tend to do more harm than good. Doing it right means link-building by hand. ...

• Six Keys to Writing a Great Proposal

  9 Feb 2010 | 8:00 am

  :ooking for ways to create a proposal that sets you and your company favorably apart? Ways that capture the great things you have to offer? Here are six suggested best-practices intended to not only maximize your chances to stand out and land the job but also manage the risks.

• Innovation Matters: Balancing Sustained vs. Disruptive Innovation

  9 Feb 2010 | 8:00 am

  While we struggle to emerge from a full-blown recession, marketers know all too well that advertising and (unfortunately) innovation are the first budgets that are most likely to get cut. So how can marketers continue to innovate?

• 50% Click-Through Rates? Yes, You Can!

  9 Feb 2010 | 8:00 am

  You'd think that to get half of your subscribers to click through, you might have to give away a million dollars every month. Publishers Clearing House actually does give away millions of dollars, but that wasn't enough on its own to earn a significantly higher-than-average response rate on its email ...

• Revamp to Revenue: Five Ways to Turn on the Profits With Your Website

  2 Feb 2010 | 8:00 am

  In the current economic climate, more business owners need to evaluate their website and revamp it to turn it into a presales tool, lead-generation machine, or even a revenue-producing cash cow. Can it be done? It just takes a few tweaks to turn on the profits.

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  Social Media Marketing Strategy, Tactics, and Tools

• How Comcast Approaches Social CRM

  Jacob Morgan

  9 Feb 2010 | 12:28 am

  Since I’m speaking on the topic of Social CRM at the New Comm Forum in April,  I decided to reach out to a few folks to get their ideas and impressions on what’s going on in the space.  One of the people I reached out to was Frank Eliason from Comcast (many of you may know him on twitter as @comcastcares) to find out how they were approaching Social CRM.  I chatted with Frank for over an hour and here’s what he had to say. Comcast monitors pretty much every social media channel that is relevant to them.  In other words, they exist where their customer and conversations…

• Forrester to Analysts That Have Their Own Blogs: Umm, No

  Jacob Morgan

  6 Feb 2010 | 3:23 pm

  According to Sage Circle, Forrester is telling all of their analysts that have their own personally branded research blogs that they must either take them down or re-direct them to the Forrester site. Apparently Forrester feels like they can provide more value to their clients if they aggregate all of the content into one space, that place of course being Forrester’s site.  My favorite comment on this issue came from Dave McClure who said:  “What is the downside for Forrester? Likely not much unless there is a big stink in the blogosphere…” Seriously, do you think that’s the…

• The Social CRM and Enterprise 2.0 Experience Continuum

  Jacob Morgan

  4 Feb 2010 | 1:53 pm

  I’m a big fan of the work that Esteban Kolsky has been doing with Social CRM and he recently stated that he is going to be branching over towards the Enterprise 2.0 space.  Social CRM and Enterprise 2.0 efforts need to work in conjunction with one another and that’s what this whole post is about.  Dion Hinchliffe recently wrote an article stating that Social CRM is Ground Zero for Enterprise 2.0 and I couldn’t agree more.  This is why I have been working with Esteban Kolsky on thinking through some of these ideas and developing frameworks around them.  Esteban and I are…

• Introducing Social Business One

  Jacob Morgan

  3 Feb 2010 | 12:50 am

  Towards the end of last year I was approached by Bob Thompson from Customer Think and Axel Schultze from the Social Media Academy to be a part of a new type of community that just debuted a few days ago called SocialBusinessOne.  SBO was designed to be a home base for everything from Enterprise 2.0 to Social CRM (anything social business related).  There are plenty of other sites such as The Social Customer, The Customer Collective, and Social Media Today that all aggregate content and build a community around their specific topics.  However, none of the other sites have as strong of a…

• Don’t Forget About the Enterprise

  Jacob Morgan

  2 Feb 2010 | 10:28 am

  Yesterday I had the pleasure of writing another post for Marketing Profs which I hope will get more people to think about social media and collaboration WITHIN the enterprise.  Here’s an excerpt from the article: “Oftentimes when we refer to social media we refer to how a brand can engage with customers or prospects to build relationships.  These relationships are external facing; meaning brand to consumer, and are used for functions such as product development, customer service, increasing sales, and marketing.  Through social media companies seek to understand and do things…

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  Chris Brogan

• Earn Your GED- Find Success Tomorrow

  chrisbrogan

  9 Feb 2010 | 1:30 am

  No, not your General Equivalent Degree. The GED to which I refer is “guest experience design.” What the heck am I talking about? I’ll tell you. Old words: customer service. New words: guest experience. Disney, where I am this week, has a concept called a Moment of Truth. A moment of truth is “any time a guest comes into contact with any aspect of a business, however remote, is an opportunity to form an impression.” Note that it’s “an impression.” It can be good; it can be bad. Why “guest?” Because guest is much more hospitable than…

• Pursue the Goal Not the Method

  chrisbrogan

  8 Feb 2010 | 1:30 am

  In the back of a town car hired to take me to the Kansas City International airport, talking to Jeff, a driver with two kids, self-proclaimed ADD, and a history of quitting rote sales jobs every few months, I realized something of importance to the story of what’s brought me to this place: I am a seeker of the goal, not the method. Now, to unpack. The Method Is What We’re Taught to Pursue We learn our times tables. We learn the 50 states (in the US, at least). We are taught all these rules, these patterns, these systems, these methods. Musicians learn their scales. Painters copy…

• Your Blog From the Prospect’s Point of View

  chrisbrogan

  7 Feb 2010 | 7:34 am

  When you use your blog to complain or report sideways about the industry at large, what message is that sending to your potential new clients? If you’re spending your time analyzing what other people in your space are doing, citing why they’re wrong, and providing your commentary about all the things they’re doing, what does your next potential customer come away thinking? Is your negative commentary helping them make a buying decision? I’ve rarely seen the tactic work in traditional advertising. You can graze them a little bit. For instance, I’m a bit fond of…

• Just Lucky I Guess – Kitchen Table Talks

  chrisbrogan

  6 Feb 2010 | 1:46 pm

  In this Kitchen Table Talks video, I just want to address all the nice folks who call me lucky, or who think I’m just sitting around being handed my lot in life. Can’t see the video? Click here. Direct link to the video “Lucky” is absolutely what I am. Here’s what I do to earn my luck: Write a blog post or two a day. Write a newsletter every week. Comment and connect with others daily. Answer and send hundreds of emails daily. Read voraciously. Work with the best clients I can find. Reach into new markets weekly. Travel extensively. Seems lucky to me. People…

• Some Of The Third Tribe Conversations

  chrisbrogan

  6 Feb 2010 | 1:02 pm

  I’m really enjoying participating in the forums at the Third Tribe site. I was just adding my two cents to a handful of forum postings, and thought that I’d show you what some of the topics we’re talking about are, so you’d have a sense of what’s going on. We don’t really share the contents, because the people participating there like having the chance to speak openly/candidly about their marketing challenges, but I don’t see the harm in sharing a few of the topic titles. Here they are: Favorite copywriting and marketing books? Third Tribe Blogroll? 2…

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  ProBlogger Blog Tips

• Blog Like a Cartoonist – Six Stunning Secrets to Help You Break Through Bloggers Block

  Darren Rowse

  9 Feb 2010 | 11:24 am

  And now for a guest post with a difference from Cartoonist Mark Anderson from Andertoons.com who created this comic to illustrate the writing techniques he uses to create his cartoons, and how they can help bloggers push through writer’s block. Post from: Blog Tips at ProBlogger. Blog Like a Cartoonist – Six Stunning Secrets to Help You Break Through Bloggers Block Share This

• Have a 37 Minute Coffee Break with Me [Audio Interview]

  Darren Rowse

  9 Feb 2010 | 5:43 am

  If you have a spare 37 minutes today to grab a coffee with me (or at least are doing something that will allow you to listen to something for 37 minutes in the background) check out this interview I did with Robb Sutton late last week. Robb’s also transcribed it for those who prefer to read. In the interview Rob asks me about a whole range of stuff including: my background in blogging my philosophy on lots of sites vs focusing upon a single (or just a few) sites the process of going full time (and my wife’s six month ultimatum) my shift in focus to e-books and membership sites a…

• What Is Your Blogging Goal for February?

  Darren Rowse

  8 Feb 2010 | 6:22 am

  A few days back I asked readers a question: What Have You Been Putting Off and What’s Holding You Back? Some of the responses to the question in comments (and via email and Twitter) revealed a lot of bloggers really wanting to step things up and get what they’ve been putting off done. So – lets set some goals – what do you want to achieve by the end of February? I’m not going to be calling you up to check up to see if you’re meeting your goals – but hopefully in putting them down publicly you’ll find yourself a little more spurred on to reach…

• 9 Tricks I Used To Triple My AdSense Earnings In 30 Days

  Daniel Scocco

  7 Feb 2010 | 6:34 am

  Guest post by Daniel Scocco from Daily Blog Tips. I have been using Google AdSense to monetize my blogs and websites for as long as I remember. In fact it was the first method I ever tried (I made a whooping $15 on my first month… back in 2005). Over the years I migrated to other methods (e.g., direct sponsors and affiliate marketing), which made AdSense become merely an inventory filler. I was still making around $1,000 monthly from it, but whenever I could I would use other methods over it. Then some months ago I started noticing an upward trend on the CPC of my sites, and I figured that…

• How I Got Some Paying Sponsors Without Really Meaning To

  Darren Rowse

  6 Feb 2010 | 6:21 am

  A guest post by Josh Hanagarne. World’s Strongest Librarian was about four months old when I got interested in sponsors. I’d read the articles about how to do it, and none of them sounded that plausible for me and my situation. For one, my traffic wasn’t impressive, certainly not to the point where sponsors were approaching me. And, while my blog has become slightly more focused in its first ten months, it wasn’t targeted at any group of readers in particular, so I wasn’t sure how confident niche advertisers would be. It’s a little more focused now, but I can’t really think of a…

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  Copyblogger

• Does Writing for People Work for SEO?

  Brian Clark

  9 Feb 2010 | 8:16 am

  Hang around web writing circles for any length of time, and the inevitable “write for search engines or write for people” debate comes up. It’s a bit strange, really. Last time I checked, it’s people who use search engines, not some other life form. So you’re always writing for people. Obviously, the debate stems from the fact that search engines are powered by computer algorithms. But as search engines have gotten smarter, writing that pleases people and satisfies spiders is not that far apart, if at all. Let’s look at four factors that work well for SEO and see how well they…

• The Art of Shameless Self-Promotion

  Nathan Hangen

  8 Feb 2010 | 7:49 am

  I’ve found it just doesn’t pay to crow too much about what I’ve accomplished. Sure, I celebrate when things go well. But I’ve found that talking too much about my achievements leads not only to criticism, but to disappointment. There’s always going to be someone who’s done more or worked harder. And until they carve my name into the side of the moon, I see no reason in puffing myself up. The minute you get a big head is the same minute that reality smacks you and you realize that you aren’t as cool as you think you are. So self-adulation is something I try to stay…

• Five Areas to Focus On for Effective SEO Copywriting

  Brian Clark

  5 Feb 2010 | 8:51 am

  When I first started Copyblogger in 2006, I was almost militantly against on-page search optimization. Seems strange, since I’d been a successful student of SEO since 2000. It was because I saw all these people fretting over keywords like it’s 1999, and yet they had no links. Their content was weak. Their sites weren’t trusted. You can’t optimize something that’s dead in the water. So my initial goal was to get people to focus on content that attracted attention and links first. Only then do you have something you can make better (that’s what optimize means, naturally). Fours…

• Landing Page Makeovers 2007-2009: Where Are They Now?

  Roberta Rosenberg

  4 Feb 2010 | 6:46 am

  This is another addition to our ongoing series of tutorials and case studies on landing pages that work. It occurred to me late last year, as I was readying yet another Landing Page Makeover, that the end of one year and the beginning of the next was a good time to do a “Where are they now?” post. So first things first, I went back and contacted all makeover participants from the very beginning of the series. Of the more than 20 contacted, I learned that one is no longer in business, MagicPumpkinArt.com (Makeover #14) and two are in the midst of developing new products or revising…

• Does SEO Copywriting Still Matter?

  Brian Clark

  3 Feb 2010 | 8:28 am

  If there’s any one thing that can be said about SEO with certainty, it’s that it manages to cause a lot of confusion. For example, it seems like many people’s idea of SEO was formed 10 years ago, and hasn’t bothered to change with the times. Even an online veteran like Robert Scoble is completely clueless about modern best practices for search engine optimization. So, before we go any further, let me answer the question posed by the headline . . . Yes, SEO copywriting still matters. Here’s why. Search is still the biggest game in town “Pick your survey, search remains one of the…

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  ReadWriteWeb

• Can Google Buzz Succeed Where FriendFeed Couldn't?

  9 Feb 2010 | 12:20 pm

  Google just launched Google Buzz, the company's new social networking service which will be tightly integrated with Gmail. There can be little doubt that Google Buzz looks a lot like FriendFeed, the social aggregation service that was acquired by Facebook in August 2009. Today, FriendFeed's developers are Facebook employees and aren't likely to continue to improve the service in any meaningful way, while the active user community on FriendFeed continues to shrink rapidly. Given the similarities between the two services, we can't help but wonder if Google Buzz will be able to succeed where…

• How Google Buzz is Disruptive: Open Data Standards

  9 Feb 2010 | 11:31 am

  Google rolled out a social stream service today called Buzz. It looks on the surface like Facebook, FriendFeed and other stream reading and writing services. It will compete with Facebook and Twitter. Under the covers, though, this major product was built by a team of people taking a radical new approach to online publishing: Buzz is all about open, standardized user data. Google Buzz data can be syndicated out to other services using the standard data formats called Atom, Activity Streams, MediaRSS and PubSubHubbub. That couldn't be more different from Facebook. Google has taken open data…

• Mobile Health: Will Network Applications Help Us Get Healthy?

  9 Feb 2010 | 11:30 am

  Last week, we were at the mHealth initiative conference in Washington D.C. The keynotes were all about the impact mobile health applications are having in shaping the future of the health care system. Nothing demonstrates that more than the iPhone. In the 18 months since it was released, it has been perhaps the biggest thing to happen to health care electronic records, which has seen billions of dollars worth of investment in past decades. Mobile and wireless health applications directly impact the individual's health and have the promise of ensuring that when a patient leaves a doctor visit,…

• Foursquare Partners with Zagat, New York Times

  9 Feb 2010 | 11:17 am

  Foursquare has come out strong in recent weeks with partnership deals that look to put it at the top of the location-based app game. Last week, it announced a partnership with Bravo, the style and fashion-centric television network, and today it has come out with a partnership with Zagat, the restaurant guide, and the New York Times. As we wrote last week, Foursquare is competing in an increasingly crowded space. These partnerships may help it attract a whole new audience and remain competitive against other services like Yelp that are just joining in the location-based arena. Sponsor…

• Live Blogging from Google: Launch of Google Buzz

  9 Feb 2010 | 11:11 am

  This morning, Google is announcing some exciting new features for two of its most popular applications. Team Red, as we affectionately call ourselves, is present at the Googleplex in Mountain View, and we'll be live blogging the event, giving you, dear reader, a fascinating play-by-play. Stay tuned for updates! The event will begin at 10 a.m. Pacific (UTC -8). Just refresh this post to see new content as events unfold. Additional on-the-fly research and images from RWW journalist Frederic Lardinois. Sponsor 11:11: The event is over! Time to chase people down and ask some more pointed…

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• 5 Ways Airlines and Hotels Can Drive Revenue with Social Media

  Shashank Nigam

  9 Feb 2010 | 12:18 pm

  Shashank Nigam is the CEO of SimpliFlying.com, an award-winning blog on airline branding. He tweets at @simpliflying.Social media is no longer the “new” thing, especially for airlines. JetBlue has over one an a half million followers on Twitter. Lufthansa allows passengers to update their Twitter or Facebook status about where they are in the sky. AirAsia drives buzz about its new destinations through custom micro-sites. However, most airlines (and airports and hotels) are still struggling to earn direct revenue from their social media efforts.Yet if Dell can make $6.5 million from…

• Google Buzz: The Official Demo [VIDEO]

  Adam Ostrow

  9 Feb 2010 | 11:08 am

  Google has just unveiled its latest attempt to become more relevant in the social media space: Google Buzz. The product is integrated within Gmail and will be rolled out gradually to all of the webmail service’s users over the next few days.We’re still digesting all of the implications of Buzz (and will have more coverage throughout the day), but in the meantime, here’s the two-minute demo of the product in action both on the Web and via mobile that Google showed off during today’s press conference:This video from Google looks specifically at the mobile features of Buzz:What are your…

• BREAKING: Google Goes Social with Google Buzz

  Ben Parr

  9 Feb 2010 | 10:21 am

  It’s official: Google has just announced Google Buzz, its newest push into the social media foray. This confirms earlier reports of Gmail integrating a social status feature.On stage revealing the new product was Bradley Horowitz, Google’s vice president for product management. While introducing the product, Mr. Horowitz focused on the human penchant for sharing experiences and the social media phenomenon of wanting to share it in real time. These two key themes were core philosophies behind Google Buzz.“It’s becoming harder and harder to find signal in the…

• Facebook Kills Lexicon, Focuses on Analytics for Page Admins

  Samuel Axon

  9 Feb 2010 | 10:20 am

  Facebook has removed its Lexicon analytics app, blogger Steve Rubel noticed last night.Don’t know what Lexicon was? That’s OK, a lot of people didn’t; it was announced very quietly, but it was a neat tool. You could use Lexicon to see how frequently, and when, certain terms were trending in status updates, just like you can use Google Trends to do the same with search terms.For example, our own Stan Schroeder was a bit perplexed a couple years back when the word “sex” had a massive spike in usage on May 30, 2008. It was the launch day of the Sex and the City…

• 7 Ways to Promote Your Offline Event Using Social Media

  Susan Payton

  9 Feb 2010 | 10:10 am

  Susan Payton is the President of Egg Marketing & Public Relations, an internet marketing firm. She blogs at The Marketing Eggspert Blog, and teaches marketing courses at Marketing EggSchool. Follow her on Twitter @eggmarketing.We all know about Tweetups and online events, but what about events that you didn’t specifically invite the Twitterati to attend? Conferences, meetings and parties are all events that might not have started online, but which can definitely benefit from online promotion and mention.Leverage your offline event with some smart social media marketing. Here are…

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• TEDthink

  Seth Godin

  9 Feb 2010 | 3:00 am

  Can you factor this? If you're like most people, you get a little queasy at the thought. And when you were in tenth grade, you surely wondered why they were bothering you.(the answer is (x-2) times (x-2), in case you were curious.)It turns out that the real reason you needed to do this work was to be able to play with numbers in your head. Abstract numerical thought is an important skill among educated people.Which brings us to TED, a conference held every year in Long Beach. It's going on right now. Watch a few TED videos and try to get ahead of the speaker. They have an idea...it's probably…

• Frightened, clueless or uninformed?

  Seth Godin

  8 Feb 2010 | 2:57 am

  In the face of significant change and opportunity, people are often one of the three. If you're going to be of assistance, it helps to know which one.Uninformed people need information and insight in order to figure out what to do next. They are approaching the problem with optimism and calm, but they need to be taught. Uninformed is not a pejorative term, it's a temporary state.Clueless people don't know what to do and they don't know that they don't know what to do. They don't know the right questions to ask. Giving them instructions is insufficient. First, they need to be sold on what the…

• The least I could do

  Seth Godin

  7 Feb 2010 | 3:35 am

  One way to think about running a successful business is to figure out what the least you can do is, and do that. That's actually what they spent most of my time at business school teaching me.No sense putting more on that pizza, sending more staff to that event, answering the phone in fewer rings... what's the point? No sense being kind, looking people in the eye, being open or welcoming or grateful. Doing the least acceptable amount is the way to maximize short term profit.Of course, there's a different strategy, a crazy alternative that seems to work: do the most you can do instead of the…

• iPad app of my dreams: the digital talking pad

  Seth Godin

  6 Feb 2010 | 8:10 am

  Here's the spec. If you build it and it's great, I'll use it and I'll blog it.A while ago, I posted about the talking pad and a modern version of it.I think there's a killer app version of this for the iPad, and I hope someone will build it. The talking pad is an interactive presentation tool for smart people.OverviewIt's a very simple concept: a collection of pages (slides, images, type, let's call them pages) that are easy to navigate in a non-linear way. Along with the standard zoom features, I'd like to be able to write on any of them in real time using my finger. I can also call up, on…

• The relentless search for "tell me what to do"

  Seth Godin

  6 Feb 2010 | 2:26 am

  If you've ever hired or managed or taught, you know the feeling.People are just begging to be told what to do. There are a lot of reasons for this, but I think the biggest one is: "If you tell me what to do, the responsibility for the outcome is yours, not mine. I'm safe."When asked, resist.

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• TED: Now with More Elitism?

  Sarah Lacy

  9 Feb 2010 | 12:33 pm

  Let me say upfront: I have never been to TED, mostly because I have never been invited and I can’t imagine a world where I justify paying $6,000 for a conference. But I live in Silicon Valley so every year leading up to the star-studded event, I have to hear about it from nearly everyone I know: People who love it and people who hate it. For the last few years, these conversations have gotten ugly. What I’ve seen and heard from the outside depicts the sad transition from what used to be an inventive, elite industry conference that cross-pollinated experts from the worlds of technology,…

• Microsoft Slams Google Buzz

  Michael Arrington

  9 Feb 2010 | 12:20 pm

  “Busy people don’t want another social network, what they want is the convenience of aggregation. We’ve done that. Hotmail customers have benefitted from Microsoft working with Flickr, Facebook, Twitter and 75 other partners since 2008.” – Microsoft statement on Google Buzz. When one of the big guys launches a new product, competitors generally just sit it out and let the press do its thing. But Microsoft made a point of reaching out today with the quote above, criticizing Google Buzz as “another social network” and noting that Hotmail has aggregated Flickr,…

• Yahoo Not Pleased With Google Buzz’s Buzz

  MG Siegler

  9 Feb 2010 | 12:18 pm

  Google officially unveiled Buzz, their major step into social statuses through Gmail today at an event held at 10 AM PT. Within the hour, Yahoo PR was set in motion to let everyone know that they actually did this first, almost a year ago. Here’s the humorous email that was sent out: It’s been almost a year and a half since we first launched Yahoo! Updates – a social feature that lets people share their status, content and online activities and stay connected to what their friends and family are doing on Yahoo! and across the Web – and we wanted to share the latest on what’s…

• Sergey Brin Used Google Buzz To Write His NYT Op-Ed On Google Books

  MG Siegler

  9 Feb 2010 | 11:54 am

  During the Q&A session today following the Google Buzz event, Google co-founder Sergey Brin revealed something both humorous and interesting. When asked a question about practical uses for Google Buzz, Brin noted that he actually used the service to help him write his op-ed about Google Books that ran in the New York Times last year. Brin noted that he was having difficulty with the article because it’s just his one point of view. So he put out his draft on Google Buzz (which Google was testing out internally within the company at the time), and quickly got dozens of comments. Brin…

• Screenshots: Google Buzz In Action

  MG Siegler

  9 Feb 2010 | 11:17 am

  Now that the Google event is over, the company has started turning on Buzz for Gmail users. Here are some quick screenshots of it in action. CrunchBase InformationGoogle BuzzInformation provided by CrunchBase

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  WSJ: Today's Most Popular

• Couples Kiss and Tell

  9 Feb 2010 | 11:25 am

  It is often possible to understand why a marriage fails, as so many do. It is much more difficult, though, to figure out why one succeeds.

• No Exit as Fannie, Freddie Flail

  9 Feb 2010 | 11:24 am

  Fannie and Freddie remain troubled wards of the state, with no blueprints for the future and no clear exit strategy for the government.

• Hearts Actually Can Break

  9 Feb 2010 | 9:52 am

  Broken-heart syndrome mimics a heart attack but is brought on by acute emotion or physical trauma. Patients usually fully recover with no lasting heart damage.

• A Great Day to Be a Boilermaker

  9 Feb 2010 | 9:28 am

  Long hidden in the shadows of Indiana, Purdue is stealing the spotlight with the No. 6-ranked men's basketball team, plus another newly-anointed Super Bowl MVP to boot.

• McGurn: Bush Was Right, Says Obama

  9 Feb 2010 | 6:38 am

  'We're not handling any of these cases any different from the Bush administration.'

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  WSJ: Media & Marketing

• Record Draw for Super Bowl

  8 Feb 2010 | 8:49 pm

  A record 106.5 million Americans watched the Saints beat the Colts in Sunday's Super Bowl game on CBS, setting a new high for any U.S. TV broadcast.

• Luxury's New Optimism

  8 Feb 2010 | 7:36 pm

  Luxury-goods sellers are feeling more optimistic but, in the new environment, are focusing on relatively lower prices and making sure scarcity breeds an aura of exclusivity.

• Early Paparazzo Got Fame Himself

  8 Feb 2010 | 5:48 pm

  Felice Quinto, Italian photographer memorialised in Felini's La Dolce Vita, was chasing stars long before today's scandal snappers

• Burkle Targets Barnes & Noble

  2 Feb 2010 | 12:35 pm

  Ron Burkle sent a letter to Barnes & Noble seeking to acquire as much as 37% of the company, up from his current stake of 19%.

• Jones Apparel Names President

  2 Feb 2010 | 7:36 am

  Richard Dickson, the manager credited with making Mattel's Barbie fashionable again, will join Jones Apparel as president.

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  WSJ: Management

• Poaching Makes Comeback

  9 Feb 2010 | 11:57 am

  Some firms are taking the opportunity to nab stars from competitors whose best performers feel frustrated following months of recession.

• Boeing Flies New 747 Model

  8 Feb 2010 | 9:17 pm

  The company's revamped 747 took off on its maiden flight. But the new jetliner has been slow to attract orders as Boeing again redesigns a successor to a plane that has been flying for forty years.

• SAP Chief Quits; Co-CEOs Step In

  8 Feb 2010 | 9:56 am

  The chief executive of SAP resigned after the German software company declined to renew his contract. Two co-CEOs will succeed Leo Apotheker.

• Toyota's U.S. Chief Is On the Hot Seat

  8 Feb 2010 | 8:58 am

  When Yoshimi Inaba took over the North American operations of Toyota last year, he was charged with restoring profits; now, he is preparing to testify before Congress to explain Toyota's safety troubles.

• Goldman Bows on CEO Pay

  7 Feb 2010 | 3:44 pm

  Goldman, trying to show it is responsive to public pressure, said CEO Blankfein would get a $9 million bonus for 2009, a fraction of the $68.5 million payout he got in 2007. J.P. Morgan's Dimon will get about $17 million in bonuses, but no cash.

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  The Economist: The Americas

• Colombia's health reforms: Shock treatment

  4 Feb 2010 | 2:41 am

  President Uribe tries to push through some much-needed changesAS ALLIES of Barack Obama seek procedural tricks to slip his health reforms through a truculent Congress, his Colombian counterpart, Alvaro Uribe, is not bothering with such niceties. He has simply issued a set of decrees ordering a much-needed but equally controversial shake-up of his country’s health service. The Constitutional Court, whose earlier rulings have added greatly to the health system’s financial stresses, is examining the decrees. Mr Uribe has begun negotiating with doctors and other opponents over how…

• Brazil's possible next president: Serra waits, a bit too patiently, for the presidency

  4 Feb 2010 | 2:41 am

  The front-runner in Brazil’s coming presidential contest has done a decent job running its biggest state. But to keep his lead he must get campaigningWITH almost 30m voters and a population greater than Canada’s and on a par with Argentina’s, the giant industrial state of Sao Paulo is accustomed to playing a big part in choosing Brazil’s presidents. The retiring incumbent, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, and his predecessor, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, both had their political roots in the state. The front-runner so far in this year’s race, Jose Serra, has been the…

• Argentina's reserves and its debts: Central Bank robbery

  4 Feb 2010 | 2:41 am

  The president gets her way, again, but at a priceCRITICS of Argentina’s government have two main explanations for the behaviour of Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner’s administration: cunning conspiracy or bumbling incompetence. Two bits of evidence suggest the truth lies somewhere in between. First, Martin Redrado, the governor of the Central Bank, was pushed out on January 29th, after a battle with the president over the bank’s dollar reserves. Ms Fernandez ostensibly wanted to use the cash to reassure foreign investors about Argentina’s creditworthiness. If so, her…

• Venezuela's drift to authoritarianism: Wolf sheds fleece

  28 Jan 2010 | 2:40 am

  Hugo Chavez worries ever less about maintaining a semblance of democracyOPPONENTS of Hugo Chavez have often bewailed his knack of cloaking authoritarianism in outwardly democratic forms. So perhaps they should be grateful that the Venezuelan president is increasingly abandoning the pretence. On January 23rd—a date on which the country commemorates the 1958 uprising that ousted its last military dictator—cable-television operators were told to stop carrying RCTV, a pro-opposition channel. It was the latest in a series of recent moves that have placed Mr Chavez’s elected…

• Haiti two weeks after the earthquake: Scrabbling for survival

  28 Jan 2010 | 2:40 am

  As international aid reaches a devastated people, their leaders wonder how to rebuild a country in ruinsIN THE days after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti on January 12th, the country’s shock and grief were tempered by the urgent need to save lives. Now that search-and-rescue operations are officially over—with just 132 people plucked from the rubble alive, and estimates of the dead ranging as high as 300,000—Haitians are confronting the devastation wrought on their perennially troubled land.The past week has seen remarkable progress. Because Haiti’s roads and…

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  Diario El Sur

• Independientes serían la gran sorpresa en gabinete de Piñera

  De los 22 ministros, 14 no son militantes de ningún partido político.

• Posibles ministros ya están ingresando al Museo Histórico Nacional

  Entre ellos están, Rodrigo Hinzpeter, quien asumiría como ministro del Interior, Lily Pérez, Juan Antonio Coloma, Felipe Larraín,la abogada Catalina Parot,...

• Ya está todo listo para que en minutos el Presidente electo anuncie su gabinete

  Expectación hay a esta hora en el Museo Histórico Nacional, donde Sebastián Piñera, anunciará los nombres de los 22 ministros que conformarán su gobierno...

• Maradona sigue en búsqueda de jugadores para el Mundial

  De cara a Sudáfrica, el técnico de Argentina ha convocado a más de 100 futbolistas desde noviembre de 2008.

• FIFA ratificó suspensión de jugador Uruguayo para el Mundial

  Cristian "Cebolla" Rodríguez deberá cumplir dos partidos de castigo por lo que se complica su posible convocatoria.

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  Interney Blogs

• FÓRMULA 1, 1973 - Saloma do Blog

  9 Feb 2010 | 11:12 am

  Recado do Fiote..."Olá amigos,bons tempos aqueles que cada carro tinha sua própria personalidade, seus próprios trunfos aerodinâmicos, mecânicos, etc. Inovações de design, diferentes projetos, diferentes tamanhos, formas, até mesmo pilotagem. Sim. Pilotagem que hoje pode existir mas nessa época aí, piloto andava sem freio e entortava nas curvas pra fazer tempo. Quem viu esses dois aí andando é que o diga.Abraços".Fiote(reprodução)Posts similares:MALZONI DO FIOTEA SHELL TEM I.C.A....A NOVA VERSÃO DA FERA PARANAENSE* Esportes - InterNey Blogs - InterNey.Net

• O velho, a guriazinha e o sapo - Melhores do Mundo

  9 Feb 2010 | 11:00 am

  Neste final de semana ocorreu a premiação do Annie Awards, considerada o Oscar da animação. E diferente do ano passado que boqueteram pra caralho o sem-gracinha do Kung Fu Panda da Dream Works, desta vez os foram a Pixar, Disney e Laika que dividiram a maioria dos prêmios.O fodástico Up - altas aventuras, da Pixar, ganhou as duas categorias mais importates, "melhor direção para cinema" e "melhor animação para cinema", mas só!Enquanto a animação cuti-cuti do estúdio "coleguinha", A princesa e o sapo, da Disney, levou para casa "melhores efeitos", "melhor animação de personagem…

• Outro Vingador secreto! Seria o Largarto de Pinto? - Melhores do Mundo

  9 Feb 2010 | 10:00 am

  Aí, nerds amaldiçoados... A Marvel continua com a putaria de liberar um teaser por dia com relação aos Vingadores da saga Heroic Age...Depois do Lagarto de pinto de ontem, mais uma silhueta foi mostrada com outro membro dos "Vingadores Secretos"... Confiram aí:Hum, podia dizer que é o Manto da drupa Manto e Adaga, ou será que é o Cavaleiro da Lua?Nada... É O LAGARTO DE PINTO DE NOVO!!!Secret Avengers terá roteiros de Ed Brubaker e arte de Mike Deodato... Vale lembrar que Brian Michael Bendis escreve outro título dos Vingadores, com arte de John Romita Jr.O que eu acho? Putz, quero…

• Christopher Nolan no novo SUPERMAN??? - Melhores do Mundo

  9 Feb 2010 | 9:00 am

  Caraaaaaai, olha só nerdos e nerdas malditos... o Deadline Hollywood trouxe uma nota excrusivis hoje falando sobre um novo filme do Superman e a presença ilustre de Christopher Nolan na produção da bagaça!!!Isso mesmo, segundo o site Nolan foi nomeado como o "mentor" do novo projeto, talvez ele não dirija o filme, chamado por enquanto de Superman 3.0, mas ele vai acompanhar de perto toda a produção desde o roteiro até a pós produção.Eles dizem que o filme não será uma continuação, mas sim um reinício para o Superman, e que apesar de ninguém dizer oficialmente que Brandon…

• Novo Trailer do filme de Ibara no Ou - Maximum Cosmo

  9 Feb 2010 | 8:01 am

  Já falei em posts anteriores que Ibara no Ou (King of Thorn) é um mangá escrito e desenhado por Yuji Iwahara, que é publicado na revista Comic Beam da Enterbrain, que a Enterbrain é uma das várias editoras nanicas que fazem parte do grupo Kadokawa, que a série tem seis volumes, que o longa estreará no Japão no começo de Maio... então o que há a dizer mais? Este é o novo trailer do longa-metragem. Divirtam-se.Ofertas: Madonna Ray of Light, Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast, Direito Penal Parte EspecialPosts similares:Anunciado Lançamento do Longa de King of ThornPrimeiro…