Wireless hotspots are changing the way people work. These wireless local area networks (LANs) provide high speed Internet access in public locations, at home and in the office. They require nothing more than a mobile device with an internal or external wireless card. From Starbucks to airports to hotel lobbies, hotspots [...]
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The human brain is considered to be the super computer of all super computers. Logical thoughts are triangulated, analyzed and resolved in the human brain within fractions of a second. With these results the brain controls our central nervous system which drives the functions and thoughts of our human body.
Why the deep thoughts? Well, here’s [...]
The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press recently surveyed 1,489 adults and asked, Where do you get most of your national and international news?
Not surprisingly, 40% of those surveyed said they get their news stories and alerts from the Internet, up 16 points over 2007’s results.
Television lost 4 points in the last [...]
JASE Group, LLC is looking for very determined, fun sales professionals. Don’t be wooed by the big boys. Come with us where you’ll be appreciated and the strategists & developers will even talk to you.
The job is pretty simple. You work; you get paid. Your commissions are earned by how hard you try. The money [...]
Over the course of my career, I’ve been deeply engaged in many different concepts, projects, visions and environments within the IT community. Each of them is unique in its purpose, direction and outcome. And each has a specific aim at definitive accomplishments.
Sometimes IT is the sole foot soldier and sometimes IT rides the horse of [...]
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Merry Christmas from the JASE family to yours on this blessed day.
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Wednesday, December 24th, 2008
Every advance or innovation seems to come with both benefits and risks, improvements and (often unexpected) complications. Whether you chalk it up to the law of unintended consequences, hype, hubris, passivity, karma or whatever cosmic force, the best-intentioned and most-benign-seeming tech initiatives and developments frequently seem to backfire in some way.
Although I have been a [...]
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How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? I think I care more these days about how fast I could chuck the wood than how much wood I could chuck.
With the existence of Giga-speed switches and Giga-speed NICs even in our notebooks, moving data through today’s intra-networks has become luxurious [...]
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Newegg.com has a 4 GB microSD card on sale for $6.49 with free shipping. There is a limit of 2 per customer so grab a friend and order a few storage cards.
Features:
Fully compatible with SD 2.0 Standards
Only 10% the size of a standard SD card
MicroSD adapter allows it to be used in standard SD Card [...]
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“Rapid, flex development in a controlled space”
What does this mean to you? Could you work in this environment?
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Mark Brownstein gave us 10 things we should avoid doing in 2009. What others can you add?
Do not go into next year without a worst-case-scenario plan.
Do not panic. Doing nothing only leads to failure. Go out there, and face it head-on.
Do not forget about The Work. In your efforts to navigate your agency [...]
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Can small-to-medium size businesses really afford to go green? In keeping with this week’s theme on my blog, I decided to ask a few questions of the SMB owners again.
Can you afford to go green?
We all want to. We all agree going green is the hip thing to do and on most fronts the right [...]
During my 10 minutes of downtime this weekend I was able to catch up on a little reading. I ran across this quote: “Out with the new, in with the newest.” I was excited. This kind of thought gets my blood rumbling.
But then I paused. Aside from the blink at the end of the sentence [...]
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Alltel Wireless! That’s what Verizon just paid for Alltel Corp. after today’s approval of the proposal by the Federal Trade Commission. With the deal Verizon becomes the largest wireless carrier in the United States.
Does this mean no more Alltel commercials with Chad and his bumbling buddies?
What do you guys think about this deal? Good for [...]
Alexandra Krasne of PC World recently wrote an article for LinuxWorld with suggestions on ways to save money for your organization.
Are there others you can think of to share?
Use open-source and free software: When you’re trying to keep your business afloat, plunking down lots of cash for off-the-shelf software can really hurt. While not as [...]
It’s very refreshing to see advertising presentations elegantly delivered with a powerfully emotional message.
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Friday, December 12th, 2008
Aaron Strout is hosting a webcast on December 16th at 2:00 PM EST / 11:00 AM PST on Content and Conversations - Engaging Your Customers Online. His guests are Jeremiah Owyang, Sr. Analyst at Forrester Research and Ann Handley, Chief Content Officer at MarketingProfs.
Aaron will cover topics during the 60 minute webcast such as:
Creating content [...]
Paul Dunay has published a list of C-level executives that are active in the micro-blogging scene. He has subdivided the list by Chief Executive Officers, Chief Marketing Officers, Chief Technology Officers and Chief Information Officers.
See the full list of executives and links to their respective Twitter pages here.
Our CEO, Keith Parnell, is of course on [...]
We love making fun of agencies, especially advertising agencies. Who’s up for selling their soul to advertising? Here’s to another Silver Addy!
Warning: profane, adult and sexually suggestive language.
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Sad news for the parent company of the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times newspapers and the Chicago Cubs. As of the time of their chapter 11 bankruptcy filing the Tribune is $13b in debt.
In today’s times newspapers just aren’t profitable. That might be an extreme statement but I can safely say it will soon [...]
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Advertising Age ran a survey to see how Internet surfers would react to the possibility of enjoying no pop-up ads, banner ads or overlays on websites. Even though most people are bothered by ads, it seems most wouldn’t pay to get rid of them.
Would you pay$39.99 or $29.99 per year to poke around your favorite [...]
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Wikipedia defines brand as a “symbolic embodiment of all the information connected to a company, product or service1.” Merriam Webster’s definition of brand is a “class of goods identified by name as the product of a single firm or manufacturer2.”
Our marketing team has had many thoughts on brand including “many slogans are just generic sentiments [...]