Archive for April, 2007

“After several great trips to St. John, we – just like a lot of folks – fell in love with the island. In June, 2002, we bought a lot in Chocolate Hole North as an investment. We fully intended to buy an existing house on the island, and spent the next year or so looking. […]

Social and peer to peer networking have changed the landscape of industry and business and is producing seismic changes in the world of music. No, not the ongoing battle over copy writing and downloading, but in the very nature of the creation of music itself.

“We plugged guitars into computers and adjusted our headphones. I […]

The bloom fades fast on the appeal of an international assignment if the executive is poorly prepared or unwilling to adapt.

“…up to 40 percent of expatriate managers terminate their assignments early, costing their companies between $50,000 and $150,000 and derailing their careers. Moreover, 50 percent of those who do not terminate their assignments early function […]

If you are yachtsman or boat lover than you have probably seen this beauty, a collaboration between Porsche and Miami boat maker, Fearless Yachts.
“This luxury speed boat can be defined as the perfect fusion of performance and aesthetics. Thanks to its singular elegance and state-of-the-art materials and construction methods, this yacht has created a new […]

Most are aware that Time magazine has online their compilation of the one hundred most influential people of the century, a who’s who of artists, scientists, writers and politicians - as all who’s whos should be.
One wonders, though, of the criteria used in sifting through one hundred years of remarkable human beings in determining […]

Unfortunately, effective global networking in China for giants like Google and Yahoo have resulted in compromising some very American ideals, like becoming complicit in China’s censorship of it’s citizens.
“After the United States, China boasts the world’s second-largest Internet user base, with an estimated 137 million Chinese already online. However, U.S. companies like Google and Yahoo […]

An interesting debate developed in the comments to a post
(Word of Mouth Training Wheels) that advises on the necessity of and some methods for implementing word of mouth (WOM) marketing. The post also recommends an association that has formed to promote this particular form of advertising.

Much that is treated as new on the internet - […]

I do not know if anyone else tolerates their dog lounging on their lap while at the keyboard, but my Jack Russell thinks it’s his sovereign right to do so. Thus my keyboard inevitably becomes a distasteful repository of shed fur, spilt coffee and assorted crumbs.The primary reason I usually go through at least two […]

An interesting and constantly evolving online compilation of who’s who is the Notable Names Database.
“NNDB is an intelligence aggregator that tracks the activities of people we have determined to be noteworthy, both living and dead. Superficially, it seems much like a “Who’s Who” where a noted person’s curriculum vitae is available (the usual information such […]

Steve Pavlina.com has a great post outlining the 10 most common mistakes made by the newly self-employed.

He covers one particular misdirection of energy when noting a common mistake in navigating through your peer to peer network drumming up business. Some people that you are connecting with are simply a waste of your time.
“Selling to the […]