To telecom industry lawyers, it is the Five Books of Moses, The New Testament, The Koran, the Bhagavad-Gita, the Ultimate API for Everything. We’re talking about the Communications Act, and Capitol Hill leaders say it’s time to “develop proposals” to update the law. “As the first step, they will invite stakeholders to participate in a series of bipartisan, issue-focused meetings beginning in June,” the announcement notes.
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Congress: it’s time to rewrite the Telecommunications Bible
In my last post , I described a research project with Jim Hagemann Snabe, co-CEO of SAP, on the need for speed in information delivery. It turns out that executives believe not all information needs to be delivered faster, but substantial percentages of executives — a majority, in the case of some types of information — want their information more rapidly than they currently receive it.
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How Do You Speed Up Information Delivery?
The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics and the Environmental Working Group released the results of a study recently that may have perfume-lovers running from their fragrances. The commissioned study exposed hormone-disrupting chemicals and chemicals that could cause allergic reactions. Many were not on product labels, according to the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics.
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Perfume … or poison?
AffPortal was the first “PPV Tools” website on the block. It took a whole bunch of tasks that PPV marketers have to do on a regular basis, and made them faster and easier. Things like URL scraping, etc. Now that it’s been out for a while, a competitor has sprung up called AffExpert . At first I was skeptical, because I am a huge fan of AffPortal. But once I got the chance to dig in and use the tools during their free Beta period (which has expired), they won me over. Most of the tools are self-explanatory by the title, but there are a couple of things that I really like about AffExpert’s system that make it unique: When you are scraping URLs, it automatically shows you the Alexa , and Quantcast rankings for all of them. This is pretty cool because you can tell how much traffic a target is going to get before you even test it out on the PPV network. There is a really cool Basket system that you can save all the URLs to that you want to keep, and then download them all at once in one nice file. This eliminates the all-too-common problem of duplicate URLs you get when you are scraping through other methods, and it will also give you the option to add or remove the final slash (/) at the end of the URLs. Since PPV networks like DirectCPV consider “domain.com” to be a different URL than “domain.com/”, this can be handy
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AffExpert > AffPortal (A Review)
(Photo: Gloria Dawson / The Daily Green) Want to know what a 1,600-plus-calorie meal looks like? It’s not what you think.
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Three meals with more than 1,600 calories each
(Photo: Denise Yeager) Composting is the ultimate act of green frugality , turning unwanted organic material into rich humus for use in the garden rather than sealing it in plastic trash bags to spend eternity in a landfill. But for some of us, composting is something even more special — a hobby, a passion, almost a religion . I’ve even named my beloved compost pile; “Gomer,” as in Gomer Pyle (get it?)
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How to compost almost anything
If you’re like me, you’ve seen and heard a lot of economist Nouriel Roubini lately. Just in the past couple of weeks, the NYU professor known as Dr. Doom has been interviewed on NPR’s Morning Edition , in the FT , in Der Spiegel , on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher .
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What Exactly is Nouriel Roubini Good For?
Free insight from top talent helps affiliate marketers build their businesses this June
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Affiliate Marketing Luminaries Take the Spotlight at AffCon 2010 – Denver
In 2006, Muhammad Yunus was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his pioneering work in the field of microcredit. As the founder of the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, Yunus demonstrated that lending money to poor people to start businesses could be profitable and could transform their lives by raising them out of poverty. Today, Yunus is advocating something even more revolutionary: an entire market system of companies that solve social problems and are financially self-sustaining.
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The Bold Vision of Grameen Bank’s Muhammad Yunus
The ongoing media and blogospherian outrage about Facebook’s behavior , and purported misbehaviors around the social network’s privacy policies and practices intrigues me. (Disclosure: My brother, Elliot Schrage , is a top Facebook executive; I’ve been an occasional resource for him on these issues)
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Facebook’s Privacy Debate Misses the Point
The following blog was co-authored by Ramsey Alwin and Brandy Baeur of the National Council on Aging Last year Della Davis, a senior in Saginaw, Michigan, frequently sought free meals at soup kitchens, and struggled to pay for her medications and utilities.
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Benefits Matter to Older Americans’ Budgets and Health
If you haven’t experienced it, you’ve seen it. Whether you’re a blogger or a marketer — or both — you’ve seen an audience rise up in revolt the moment someone tries to make a buck. You’ve sold out! You didn’t disclose! Whatever the contention, one thing is clear
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How to Monetize Your Site Without Causing an Audience Revolt
Editors’ note: This is the second in a series of posts examining myths about why employees don’t speak up, based on the June HBR article, ” Debunking Four Myths About Employee Silence .” Fear is a prominent reason for workplace silence.
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Do Your Employees Think Speaking up Is Pointless?
(Editor’s note: This post is part of a six-week blog series on how leadership might look in the future . The conversations generated by these posts will help shape the agenda of a symposium on the topic in June 2010, hosted by HBS’s Nitin Nohria , Rakesh Khurana , and Scott Snook . This week’s focus: values.) From the Gilded Age to the Information Age , business leaders who attain rock star status have often been the deal makers.
The following blog was written by Kate White, Executive Director, Elder Law of Michigan As the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform turns its attention to Social Security, it is vital that Washington doesn’t attempt to impose “responsibility and reform” on the backs of low income families. Social Security is the cornerstone of the safety net in the United States, providing a small income for people with disabilities, children, and older adults.
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Could You Live on Social Security?
With global expansion, intra- and inter-industry restructuring, and increasing numbers of merging organizations, the need for dynamic flexibility and a broad base of knowledge and expertise is greater than ever. Shared leadership, by virtue of its use of the combined best of leaders’ abilities, is being tested as one possible solution for meeting these challenging business needs. What is shared leadership?
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Sharing Leadership to Maximize Talent
“Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.” — Stephen Kaggwa Earlier this week I was a guest on Minnesota Public Radio’s morning show discussing “The Gulf Oil Spill and the Blame Game.” The other guest was Alan Webber , ex of HBR , founder of Fast Company , and author of Rules of Thumb: 52 Truths for Winning at Business Without Losing Your Self , and we had a wonderful conversation about the culture of unaccountability that contributed to the ecological disaster we are witnessing in the Gulf, and the blame game that is being played out in the media. One caller raised the fascinating issue of forgiveness, raising the legitimate concern that punishing failures like what happened with BP in the Gulf would lead inevitably to people denying responsibility, blaming others, and seeking to hide their failures
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When Should We Forgive Failure?
With the first round of health reform under our belts, it’s time to shift attention from access to the real issue plaguing the American health system: cost. The cost issue is complex, spanning payment models, medical malpractice and defensive medicine, and the specialty versus primary care debate. But I want to focus on consumers, and the broader context in which they make their healthcare decisions.
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Prevention and Consumer Self-management
I’ll hold my breath for this to last 10 years. I hope so, but…it’s a business deal with F1. Ask Indy how that works out. Formula One World Championship Limited and Formula One Administration Limited together, the F1 Commercial Rights Holder and Full Throttle Productions, LP, promoter of the Formula 1 United States Grand Prix™, announce that a historic agreement has been reached for Austin, Texas to serve as the host city of the Formula 1 United States Grand Prix™ for years 2012 through 2021
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Nice: F1 coming to Austin in 2012-2022
They are able to take one of these: via Amazon.com: Davis 6152 Vantage Pro-2 Wireless Weather Station with Standard Radiation Shield and reduce its weight when shipping it:
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Something magical from Amazon