Stop what you’re doing (including reading this blog) and read this: 10 Steps to a Hugely Successful Web 2.0 Company.
Charlie from Union Square Ventures hits the nail on the head. He put a lot of my own philosophy to "paper" just in a much cleaner, clearer way. Must reading for any entrepreneur or anyone who has given launching a product or company half a thought.
[via A VC]
PaidContent.org: API’s $2 Million Newspaper Thinktank The American Press Institute has launched a $2 million year-long research project trying to find new business models for newspapers (tags: Newspapers BusinessModels)
Jim Horton points to an interesting article about the progres of state and federal government agencies in making information more easily accessible online. A brief excerpt: West and his team of researchers conducted a detailed analysis of 1,620 state and federal government Web sites. Among the report’s findings: • 73 percent of state and federal…
The two regular readers of this blog may wonder where I’ve been the past month since I managed only one post in December. Long story short, I was buried with tasks both at work and at home. For some nutty reason, I decided to move my house and my office the week between Christmas and…
The Standards Editor of the New York Times, Allan M. Siegal, made an interesting admission in an interview with his own publication today: I’m supposed to be the recipient of any complaints and misgivings by the staff about how we’re doing and what we’re doing, the person who adjudicates differences of opinion about how we…
Well-known PR measurement expert Katie Paine is blogging about the International Public Relations Research Conference going on in Miami. She has an intriguing observation which hopefully she’ll elaborate on when she’s not running between sessions: Howard Dean and the DNC would be adviced to carefully study Len Barshak’s ongoing Q-Sort study of attititudes about the…
One of the things I plan to do with InterAdvocacy is to show different techniques being employed by groups in their online advocacy efforts. Needless to say, I won’t agree with all of the groups or even techniques I feature, but these are ideas that seem worth sharing. Today, MoveOn.org‘s contribution page drew my attention. …