Guru. SEO. Torino. Naming. Mozilla. The Raccoon Chronicles. A Hard Look at Stormhoek’s Collapse. Thanks to Robert McIntosh at The Wine Conversation for pointing me to this story. Orbital collapses into administration . The worst news to come out of this is that the folks with the company (10 of them) have all been laid off. The somewhat better news is that there is still a chance that the business might still be sold and the brand will live on. That’s still not very good news, but at least the ownership group may be able to pay off their creditors and meet their near term financial commitments. As Robert writes , this is a sad day for wine marketers, particularly people like me with winery blogs interested in social media. Stormhoek has long been the poster child for online and social media marketing success in the wine industry.
So what went wrong? I have an email in to Hugh , who I’m sure has had better days, so I wouldn’t be surprised if I don’t hear back from him. Does Social Media Work For Wine? No, I don’t think so. 1. 2. 3. Take us for instance. Valleyschwag: Join the Party! Positive Fanatics. Bob Sutton: A New Asshole Metric: The Starbucks Test. I got this from Snopes.com from a list of New Rules for 2006. They apparently debunked the claim that is was from George Carlin and instead show (or claim to show) that is from Bill Maher's HBO show.
New Rule: The more complicated the Starbucks order, the bigger the asshole. If you walk into a Starbucks and order a "decaf grande half-soy, half-low fat, iced vanilla, double-shot, gingerbread cappuccino, extra dry, light ice, with one Sweet-n'-Low and one NutraSweet," ooh, you're a huge asshole. Whatever the source, I think it contains a lot of truth because when people get this picky, it is sign to me that they are oblivious -- or worse yet take great glee -- at acting like petty tyrants, at imposing difficulty and complexity on someone with less power, at showing everyone in the store how skilled they are at pushing around the poor clerk, and at slowing the flow of the line. Of course, bad cell phone behavior is worse. METILPARABEN.
Gomorra forever » Piovono rane - Blog - L'espresso. Super Punch. OBLòG - Scrivi e lascia vivere. Lito Torino. Valentina Malcotti Blog. Racconti e Pensieri di Valentina Malcotti. Bicycle and cycling retail news | Bikebiz. QBN - Design Industry News & Discussion. DesignNotes by Michael Surtees. Found. MarketingProfs - Marketing Resources for Marketing Professionals. Flusso Urbano. Think.BigChief. Marketing Begins At Home.
Sweetnourishingbikes. BikePortland.org. The Bicyclist. Crank My Chain - Bicycle TV. Report by Jonathan Maus of BikePortland.orgPORTLAND, OR - Nearly 200 cyclists, well over twice the usual amount, joined city bike coordinator Roger Geller on his Bike Master Plan Ride last night. Riders of all stripes came out to show support for the embattled Master Plan, which Mayor Potter recently decided to cut from his proposed budget.As expected, Transportation Commissioner Sam Adams, flanked by his policy analyst Roland Chlapowski and his Chief of Staff Tom Miller, made an appearance. During interviews with the various media outlets he said, “I just think that this (the Bike Master Plan) is more important than some of the other items proposed in the Mayor’s proposed budget…It’s absolutely critical that we continue to be a leader in bike mobility and that comes by having a good plan…Bikes have never been more important to the mobility of this city.
Dave Sohigian was there with his wife and two kids. Shamus Lynskey of St. Kineda. Global Culture. Bike Blog - Bicycle Scrapbook. EinBlog. Ciclistica.it. IMlog: Internet Marketing blog. Altro che coda lunga e discorsi alti sulle opportunità di crescita del digitale nel nostro paese; a meno di un mese dallo IAB Forum di Milano a tenere banco negli ultimi giorni sono polemiche da condominio e risse verbali ai limiti della denuncia. Non voglio fare qui la cronistoria dei botta e risposta, ma solo provare a contribuire con i miei due cents e raccontare un punto di vista personale sulla campagna Internet for Peace (di cui avevamo già parlato sia qui su IMlog sia in un intervista di qualche tempo fa).
Dire, come il direttore di Wired ha fatto, che questa campagna “cambia tutto” o che “quando lanciammo la campagna … in Italia Internet faceva notizia solo se uno apriva un gruppo per la mafia su Facebook” è stato, credo, un errore. Wired ha fatto una scelta diversa, legittima; tuttavia determinando il posizionamento di Wired è di fatto una scelta di marketing. Il resto, sono chiacchiere da condominio. CrapHammer. Complete List of Web 2.0 Applications | Rian's blog. Following is an alphabetically sorted list of popular Web 2.0 applications. The description for each of the application is taken from their own About or FAQ pages. 43 Things43 Things is great for making a list of goals.
It’s a way of connecting with other enthusiasts interested in everything from watching a space shuttle launch to grow my own vegetables. AllmydataAllmydata harnesses the power of grid storage technology to securely store your email, photos, music, movies and more. BackpackMake a page out of an idea. Then add free-form text, to-dos, notes, photos, files. Share pages with other people. BasecampBasecamp is a unique project collaboration tool. BlinkListImport and manage Your Bookmarks - in the Blink of an Eye. BlogniscientWe categorize and rank blog articles and blogs in real time, providing up-to-date information on the hottest blog entries. CalendarHubCreate a Calendar That You Can Access from Anywhere. ClipmarksClip and save just the stuff you want from any web page.
Brazen Careerist. PostSecret. Eirikso.com. The Social Customer Manifesto: Social Currency. Johnnie Moore's Weblog. Simon Terry pulls together several different strands of thinking about the limits of management. The focus on efficiency and elimination of waste cuts us off from the biggest potential, our capacity to grow and innovate. I see many organisations struggling to get a quart of productivity into a pint pot of systems, under great stress to make savings and be more efficient. I’d suggest that as that stress rises, so does the number of management abstractions bandied about: people only feel safe to talk in general terms about things like “leadership” because if they got specific the whole stressed out deck of cards might come falling down.
In these circumstances, meetings become a workaholic microcosm of the organisation – we fill the walls with masses of post-it notes as if this is the measure of the value of our conversations. We can talk in general terms about the need to “manage upwards” or “creating a no-blame culture” but this actually becomes a way of avoiding actually doing it. Guardian Unlimited Technology | Technology | What is the 1% rule? It's an emerging rule of thumb that suggests that if you get a group of 100 people online then one will create content, 10 will "interact" with it (commenting or offering improvements) and the other 89 will just view it. It's a meme that emerges strongly in statistics from YouTube, which in just 18 months has gone from zero to 60% of all online video viewing.
The numbers are revealing: each day there are 100 million downloads and 65,000 uploads - which as Antony Mayfield (at points out, is 1,538 downloads per upload - and 20m unique users per month. That puts the "creator to consumer" ratio at just 0.5%, but it's early days yet; not everyone has discovered YouTube (and it does make downloading much easier than uploading, because any web page can host a YouTube link). So what's the conclusion? Only that you shouldn't expect too much online. Amanda UnBoomed. Waxy.org: Andy Baio lives here. Lifehacker, the Productivity and Software Guide. Scobleizer: Corporate blog manifesto. Yongfook.com - The Japanese Food and Tech Blog. Forever Geek » Nerds Are For Dorks.