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The Status of Women in Media Is Not Good

Women on Business

media in 2012 isn’t good. Women’s Media Center put together a variety of statistics from research conducted by various organizations over the past couple of years and published the data in a report called “ The Status of Women in the U.S. Media 2012.” The status of women in U.S. and Craig T.

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Lincoln: A President for the Ages, a book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Lincoln: A President for the Ages Karl Weber, Editor and Contributor PublicAffairs/Participant Media (2012) Even without Spielberg’s great film with which it is associated, this book would still be a stunning achievement Those who have already seen Steven Spielberg’s film may be surprised to learn that this “companion volume” is much less about (..)

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Measuring the ROI of social media? There’s a laugh, and a joke.

Strategy Driven

I got an (unsolicited) email offering a webinar to teach me about how to measure, and the importance of measuring, the ROI of social media. Social media, business social media, is running wild – with or without you. They spoke over CEOs, media, newspapers, government, lobbyists, and politicians. TOTAL JOKE.

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Today’s thoughts February 8, 2012

Rapid BI

With Apple dropping support & products for the film & media industry, they are now [.]. Goodbye IT – hello products that work Goodbye IT – hello products that work With so many people fed-up of big software solutions that just are too clunky and don’t do easily what people want, the IT world is moving.

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With Stories We Defeat the Separateness

Building Personal Strength

Relationships and Separate Journeys Separateness - What I Don't Know about my Friends Intimacy, Separateness and Social Media Although not a commonly used term, "separateness" is our inability to know what's really going on in the lives of even our closest friends. I think that's why I like fiction and film so much. Social media?

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The Kony 2012 "Controversy"

Harvard Business Review

Instead of a film, they ended up creating a massive movement to save children from abduction into Kony's rebel army. Spending too much money on film and media. It's a film and media organization for Christ's sake. Founded by three college students in 2003, Invisible Children is a human rights organization.

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Kodak’s Downfall Wasn’t About Technology

Harvard Business Review

Given that Kodak’s core business was selling film, it is not hard to see why the last few decades proved challenging. The company filed for bankruptcy protection in 2012, exited legacy businesses and sold off its patents before re-emerging as a sharply smaller company in 2013. Consider Fuji Photo Film.