Upcoming October Conferences

HR Technology Conference October 4-6, 2006, Navy Pier
Scheduled Speaker, eComXpo, October 24th-26th, please click on the link below to register for free…

Wanted: Brillant Administrative Assistant

Argh, I’m so behind on indexing my business cards!!! It’s terrible and I must catch up. I also have tons of correspondance and phone messages to reply to. I need help! At the moment I can’t offer you cash, only still hypothetical options of some soon to launch companies and the ability to interact with some amazing [...]

Getting noticed in the new word-of-mouth network

Robert Scoble: Keynote Speech: Naked Conversations
Talks about history, blogs are best way to get stuff indexed in Google.
There is an informal conversation network. Tells the story about how a few people he told that he was leaving Microsoft. How that spread and then a largely unread blog was the one that first posted it is [...]

Last Night’s Blogger Dinner…

What can I say? Jeremiah Rocks! Enough said.

Scoble You’re Cracking Me Up!!!

The other day Scoble posted about how video blogs are superior to text and I disagreed. Well two days later he posts this gem about Yahoo!’s announcement today about slightly lower earnings due to lack of realization of projections and guidance. (Maybe they should take Progressive Insurance’s stance and not give guidance, now there is [...]

Danny Talks Feeds

I was unhapy with my current RSS feed reader solutions, especially now that I have multiple access points and also frequently read them offline.
So, I recently emailed someone I know that travels…a ton…Danny Sullivan and asked him what his current setup was. Based on his blog post, it appears he wasn’t totally set in his [...]

Marshall Field’s Sentiment has Blogosphere Legs

Yesterday’s loud announcement of a Macy’s boycott (forward via e-mail to friends) and destruction of new Macy’s credit cards to loud cheers shows that customers aren’t satisfied with Macy’s decision to remove and destroy the Marshall Field’s (and other) brand name. If Federated’s CEO Mr. Terry Lundgren and board of directors thinks this strong feelings of people are going to [...]

Tumi - Big Thumbs Up!!!

My Tumi laptop bag strap wore out recently. I called Tumi’s 800 number regarding their lifetime guarantee and within a week, a new strap arrived at no charge on a 6 year old item!!! Yes Tumi is more expensive, but the service level justifies it based on their actions after this phone call.
It’s great [...]

Jesse Jackson Jr.

Chicago despereately needs new leadership and an economic revival.
I met Jesse earlier this year, he is so different than his Dad. We shared a great conversation earlier this year.
I look forward to hearing more about issues and ideas in his “exploratory campaign“.

Costco (COST) - Needs Customer Focused Perspective

Before attending yesterday’s Chicago Cubs game upon a surprise invitation from my friend Pat Cunningham, I went to Costco. Before I talk about that though, the Cubs played the San Francisco Giants and Barry Bonds hit his 728th home run, he is now only 27 shy of Hank Arron’s record. You will notice that the [...]