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• Tackling ivory towers and silos
  Downsizing is the undisputed global management trend of the moment, says The Economist in a feature in the current edition that discusses what some companies are doing to reduce costs beyond the job cuts that have been making the news recently. The Economist describes what companies like Nortel have been doing to cut costs. Action [...]
• FeedDemon the smooth operator
  FeedDemon – the best desktop RSS feed reader for Windows, in my view – will soon be out in a new version 2.8. As is typical in much software development these days, beta versions of the new release are publicly available for testing or trying out, always with the caveat that they are beta versions [...]
• Motrin: Where’s the authentic voice?
  Earlier I posted about the Motrin kerfuffle and the opportunity it presents brand owner McNeil to listen to customers and engage with them. Reading the apology text again that McNeil posted on the Motrin home page (above), there are a few things about it that bother me. First of all, it’s an image not text you [...]
• The Motrin storm: breathtaking speed and scale
  Four years ago, an online storm erupted over the best-selling bicycle lock brand in the USA and how anyone could open the lock with a simple ball-point pen. During a 10-day period, a groundswell of commentary and opinion about Kryptonite locks spread from enthusiasts talking on bike forums to the mainstream media, to a product [...]
• The Hobson and Holtz Report - Podcast #398: November 17, 2008
  Content summary: Plans for show #401 on Thanksgiving Day; Shel on a Media Bullseye panel; Neville reflects on a Windows Live briefing in London from Microsoft; FIR Interview with Chuck Hester coming; Michael Netzley reports from Singapore on internet addiction in China, IBM’s Virtual Forbidden City and more; discussion 1: Chris Brogan’s tale of ‘Fortune [...]