Thursday, 30 October, 2008 – 15:03
Learning from Harley-Davidson's comeback
You can be insanely successful identifying your niche audience, catering to them, and sticking with them. Tell a story. Give customers and the company a shared identity. Growth may not come overnight. It may not come at all. But you will be successful.
(tags: marketing business niche motorcycle)
Monday, 27 October, 2008 – 19:32
One Lutheran…Ablog!™
Rev. Paul Beisel makes the move to WordPress. As the lion's share of Lutheran bloggers seem to trend towards Blogger, I'd like to take a pingback to congratulate Rev. Beisel upon his discovery of WordPress. If there are any Lutheran bloggers who would like to make the move to the more powerful and extensible [...]
Saturday, 25 October, 2008 – 19:32
Christ Lutheran Church » What to expect when you visit
Check it out - a ELCE congregation utilizing Lutheran Service Book for their services. Awesome! This was a pleasant surprise upon checking my alerts this morning.
(tags: church lsb lutheran elce)
Saturday, 25 October, 2008 – 08:16
“Management often works to maintain the status quo, to deliver average products to average people. In a stable environment, this is exactly the right strategy. Build reliability and predictability, cut costs, and make a profit.
Traditional marketing, the marketing of push, understands this. The most stable thing to do is push a standard product to a [...]
Friday, 24 October, 2008 – 19:32
37signals Product Blog: Changes to how we handle raw HTML input in Basecamp
Markdown is better, anyway.
(tags: 37signals markdown html web design usability)
Friday, 24 October, 2008 – 11:16
“Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It’s already tomorrow in Australia.”–Charles M. Schultz
Thursday, 23 October, 2008 – 19:32
[Screens Around Town] Apple screens: "Learn your way," support as a feature, and a greener icon
Interesting (and awesome) design and communications choices from the new Apple pages for the new MacBooks. Note a few things: informal copy style, the prominence of support as a valued feature of Macs—including Geniuses—and a small icon change that means [...]
Thursday, 23 October, 2008 – 12:09
“Managers manage by using the authority the factory gives them. You listen to your manager or you lose your job. A manager can’t make change because that’s not his job. His job is to complete tasks assigned to him by someone else in the factory.
Leaders, on the other hand, don’t care very much for organizational [...]
Wednesday, 22 October, 2008 – 10:05
“I’m glad I didn’t have to fight in any war. I’m glad I didn’t have to pick up a gun. I’m glad I didn’t get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.”–Tom Hanks
Tuesday, 21 October, 2008 – 19:32
Show Us Your Angus!
Is this awesome? I'm not entirely sure this is awesome, but it has at least some of the components that go into something that's awesome.
(tags: rockband acdc angus awesome weird contest)
Demand Satisfaction! » Our Feedback Widget: Everywhere You Need It
This is a great addition to Get Satisfaction that UserVoice already had. It's [...]
Tuesday, 21 October, 2008 – 10:01
“Managers manage a process they’ve seen before, and they react to the outside world, striving to make that process as fast and as cheap as possible.
Leadership, on the other hand, is about creating change that you believe in… leaders have followers. Managers have employees.
Managers make widgets. Leaders make change.
Change? Change is frightening, and to many [...]
Tuesday, 21 October, 2008 – 00:50
I was taking a pace through my blog settings and realized that at some point I had closed comments to only registered users.
I had not meant for that to happen and it certainly isn’t my preference, so I’ve gone ahead and opened comments up. Now, you must have one approved comment to the credit of [...]
Monday, 20 October, 2008 – 23:55
“The reverse side also has a reverse side.”–Japanese proverb
Monday, 20 October, 2008 – 19:32
Circling the drain: Circuit City contemplates store closings
This is a company that gave me the only shot at a job I could find during a pretty dark year of weirdness—and through that opportunity helped me to become a better leader. It's too bad, but when you worked there, you could tell that the whole company [...]
Sunday, 19 October, 2008 – 23:50
“We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us.”–Maurice Maeterlinck
You May Now Debate Intensely
I’ve just managed to switch my commenting system from the standard WordPress system to IntenseDebate as a little bit of a testing platform. It’s a very interesting idea—and one also shared by Disqus, which is a system I looked at for a while and never implemented—for standardizing comments and helping blogs to network together even [...]