Dear Mr. Stephenson:
I’ve been pretty vocal with my displeasure about your company in some pretty public forums of late. I thought I’d take a moment to tell you why, as well as offer a suggestion for fixing your problem.
Here’s the issue: I hire you to provide me with one product — the voice/data service on [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Misc'
An Open Letter to Randall Stephenson, Chairman, CEO and President of AT&T
September 26th, 2009 · 7 Comments
Tags: Communication Strategies · Misc · Rants · Web/Tech
Let Them Eat Op-Eds
August 21st, 2009 · No Comments
Posted by Lisa Greim
The phone rang at 9 a.m. Saturday. It was my high school friend Michael, calling from Switzerland to ask me to interpret a dream.
“My Aunt Lucy used to call and tell people she dreamed about them, and she usually got it right and that was odd, because she was kind of [...]
Tags: Communication Strategies · Mainstream Media · Misc · New Media · Rants
Trying Not To Be A Civil Libertarian Just When It’s Easy and Convenient
May 18th, 2009 · No Comments
Posted by Lisa Metzger
I’ve been following the hot and getting hotter debate over whether or not Facebook should remove and/or disallow groups and “fan pages.” The particular ones in question have names like “Holocaust: A Series of Lies,” “Based on the facts? There was no Holocaust,” and “The Holocaust is a Holohoax.” Michael Arrington at [...]
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Study: Start-Ups with PR More Likely to Get Funding
November 25th, 2008 · 1 Comment
posted by Doyle
A new study published in PR Week magazine shows that “startup companies that engage in PR campaigns are 30 percent more successful in getting funding within one to three months than those that don’t, according to results from a survey conducted by BIGfrontier Communications Group in Chicago.”
Sounds like a good investment.
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Thoughts About Job Searching in This Economy
November 18th, 2008 · No Comments
posted by Elaine
Last week Lauren Preston and I staffed Metzger’s table at the JobGobble hosted by Andrew Hudson. My first thought? Terror. For nearly two hours, Lauren and I spoke to more than a hundred plus people about Metzger and the job market. I left thankful for my job, but after reflecting upon it, wanted [...]
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“May You Live In Interesting Times”
October 30th, 2008 · No Comments
posted by Doyle
The headline is one of my favorite quotes, although it seems that there’s plenty of dispute over where it came from. Nevertheless, I think it was meant to be a positive thing to say to someone. At least I take it that way. Typically on this blog, I’d follow a headline like that [...]
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Is Google Making Us Stupid?
June 23rd, 2008 · No Comments
Here’s a great article from The Atlantic which asks if the information we’re receiving in such short bites (or should I say, bytes?) is lowering our ability to process longer information, like books.
I’m concerned on another level: a lack of critical examination of the many “facts” posted online.
A generation ago, our news came from sources [...]
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Little Known Facts About Gas Prices
June 9th, 2008 · No Comments
Admittedly, this is off the topic of this blog, but when I saw this article in the most recent edition of the University of Denver Magazine, I wanted to share. Not that I’m a fan of current gas prices, mind you, but I thought these 10 points added some perspective. (Note: this is a reprint [...]
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CompUSA vs. the Apple Store, Chapter II
February 18th, 2008 · No Comments
Well, we hate to say we told you so, but we wrote about the debacle that was CompUSA vs. the great experience of the Apple Store months ago. Now CompUSA is gone (yes, online, but gone as a retail entity) and the Apple Store thrives (check out our post here).
Seems to us that great service [...]
Tags: Misc