May 2012
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TOM REDDIN APPOINTED TO DATAMYX BOARD OF DIRECTORS
BOCA RATON, FL, APRIL, 2012 – Datamyx, a premier automated marketing information services company, today announced that Dr. Charles W. Stryker and Tom Reddin have been appointed to the company’s Board of Directors effective immediately. Their appointments will support Datamyx’s aggressive plans for expansion into new markets and increasing product offerings across its key verticals. Datamyx is a...
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Best Bars For Business Networking - San Francisco,...
Best Bars For Business Networking (San Francisco, CA) from Forbes.com
In the market and in the public eye, few industries are more exciting than the tech sphere and – though cities like Austin, New York and Seattle are making a name for themselves in that space – San Francisco and Silicon Valley represent the heart of the space.
Event management company, Schmoozed, made a list several months...
April 2012
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8 Core Beliefs of Extraordinary Bosses →
4. My employees are my peers, not my children.
Average bosses see employees as inferior, immature beings who simply can’t be trusted if not overseen by a patriarchal management. Employees take their cues from this attitude, expend energy on looking busy and covering their behinds.
Extraordinary bosses treat every employee as if he or she were the most important person in the firm....
March 2012
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DESIGN ISN’T JUST WIRE FRAMES OR VISUAL STYLE;...
Design is shrinking the gap between what a product does and why it exists. Designing is not just about picking the right font or gradient. Stop thinking about design in terms of wire frames or visual style; it is about the product as a whole. Designing is figuring out the purpose of your product and how you orient everything else around it. And that means that everyone within a company plays a...
February 2012
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Want People to Return Your Emails? Avoid These... →
Next time you write an email subject line, think twice about the words you’re using.
Loading your message with words such as “confirm,” “join,” “press,” or “invite” is not a good idea if you want a response, says data from Baydin, the makers of email plugin Boomerang.
Baydin recently extracted data from five million emails its users handled — either using the company’s “email game” or...
January 2012
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How Facebook's Expected $100 Billion IPO Breaks... →
Rumors are flying about Facebook Inc. going public this year. So, just how much money is the world’s largest social network worth? Reports project that Facebook will go public some time between April and June. The company itself has remained hush-hush about the initial public offering.
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December 2011
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CoverHound Names Keith Moore to Board of Directors
SAN FRANCISCO, California — CoverHound today announced the naming of Keith Moore to its board of directors. Moore is currently the Chief Marketing Officer at AcademixDirect, Inc., after prior roles as General Manager at LendingTree and IAC, and Senior Vice President of the 2008 IAC spinoff Tree.com.
“We’re thrilled to welcome Keith to the team. He’s an insurance industry veteran and an...
November 2011
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WatchNorth Carolina Tar Heels face Michigan State today at 7pm ET / 4pm PT on the USS Carl Vinson in San Diego, Ca.
North Carolina has a ton of famous alumni attending the game, including former basketball standouts such as James Worthy, Vince Carter, and Tyler Hansbrough, but the list of celebrities doesn’t stop there. Five for Fighting and Billy Currington are the co-headliners for a...
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CNNMoney Tech Tumblr: Diversity in Silicon Valley →
cnnmoneytech:
We hear lots of anecdotes about the difficulties that minorities face in the tech industry, but hard numbers on the issue are scarce.
We spent more than two months trying to get data, and we posted a piece about the results this morning.
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Google+ Launches Branded Pages →
Already using Google+? Follow Mashable for the latest about the platform’s new features, tips and tricks as well as social media and technology updates. Google has finally unveiled brand pages for Google+, allowing businesses and brands to join Google’s social network. “So far Google…
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Google Direct Connect Hooks Search and Google+... →
Google has rolled out a new feature called Direct Connect, which makes it dead simple for users to find and follow brands on Google+ via Google Search. Whenever a user wants to find a brand on Google+, all they have to do is type “+” in Google Search, followed by the brand or business …
October 2011
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“You tend to get told that the world is the way it is, but life can be much...”
– Steve Jobs
September 2011
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“When we listen, we acknowledge others’ experience and expertise. When we...”
– Whitney Johnson, founding partner of Rose Park Advisors (@johnsonwhitney) in a post on HBR.org
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August 2011
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“Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of...”
– Steve Jobs, of Apple & Pixar, in a Wired Magazine interview in February 1996
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“I went to Maui to stay a week and remained FIVE.
I never spent so pleasant a...”
– Mark Twain (S.L. Clemens) quote about Maui
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The CMO Challenge: Survey of 300 Marketing Execs... →
Agencies are falling short based on a survey of 300 marketing Executives.
The Power of Like: How Brands Reach and Influence... →
While most brand marketers today are intensely focused on their social media efforts, many express frustration at the inability to quantify its value or incorporate it into their marketing mix. comScore Social Essentials is a breakthrough social measurement product that helps marketers do just that.
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“Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.”
– Lord Chesterfield
July 2011
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“Amazingly, more than 40% of IT projects still fail to deliver the expected...”
– Aaron Levie, the founder and CEO of Box.net in a guest author article on TechCrunch
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“What to do with a mistake? Recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.”
– Dean Smith - legendary UNC Tar Heel Basketball Coach
June 2011
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“Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in...”
– Albert Einstein (via 808girlmedia)
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“ MacRumors has discovered a new addition to the iTunes App Store update page...”
– Apple to offer automatic App Store app updates in iOS with ‘Automatic Download’
May 2011
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The most valuable Brands in the world - In-Depth... →
The Top 50 most valuable Brands in the world. Apple is now #1 in 2011.
Google I/O in a Nutshell: All the News You Might... →
Google I/O 2011 has officially ended, so here’s a quick “all killer, no filler” recap of everything you need to know that happened at the conference this year. The event was full of announcements, including big pieces of Android news, updates on Google TV, announcements for the super-slick Ch…
Twitter Users Are Way Bolder Than Facebook Users... →
Have you ever noticed that the phrase “Follow me on Twitter” seems a lot more common than “Friend me on Facebook”? Alterian and Sevans Strategy decided to look into this phenomenon. The two tracked 3.3 million such “asks” in March by running keyword searches on various platforms including Flic…
April 2011
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ApartmentFinder Appoints Trish Moore National...
LAWRENCEVILLE, GA — (Marketwire - April 5, 2011) - Trish Moore has joined Apartment Finder as National Accounts Director, West. In this new role, Ms. Moore will be responsible for driving the continued growth of Apartment Finder’s National Accounts through customer acquisitions, dedicated support management and the promotion of its CommunitySherpa social media marketing service, print...
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XA.net First to Offer Multivariate Social Media...
SAN FRANCISCO, CA — (Marketwire - 04/06/11) - XA.net, Inc., the leading provider of data-driven social advertising optimization, today announced that its optim.al multivariate ad platform is now an approved Facebook API Tools Vendor. Optim.al is the first multivariate social advertising platform which allows users to efficiently test Facebook ad variations, find the right audience and...
March 2011
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“It is not that we are short of time…. It is the way that we treat time,...”
– Richard Koch on understanding the 20% of what you do which produces 80% of your achievements.
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WatchHappy 80th Birthday to Dean Smith!
February 2011
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WatchVolkswagen Super Bowl Ad with little Darth Vadar… brilliant commercial worthy of Super Bowl hype. Go VW!
January 2011
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