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Tuesday, November 15, 2005
The Ultimate Guide to Electronic Marketing for Small Business
The Ultimate Guide to Electronic Marketing for Small Business: Low-Cost/High Return Tools and Techniques That Really Work by Tom Antion
This is the best small business marketing book I've ever read, and I've read quite a few. I've never read a "meatier" book on the practical how-tos of building a web-based marketing machine for your small business. If you're looking for a "bible" on how the web can grow your small business there is no better book on the market right now than Tom Antion's. Go buy it. You won't be sorry. [More...]
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Peter F. Drucker Dead at 96
Shortly after my November 7 post on The Daily Drucker the venerable business thinker passed away. From The McKinsey Quarterly:The influential management theorist Peter F. Drucker died on November 11th. He leaves behind a remarkable body of work, developed over more than 50 years, that not only addressed the major themes in modern thinking on management from marketing to organization but also often anticipated them by decades. The great and growing collection of outside work that Drucker's thinking has generated testifies to the seminal place of his ideas on the role of knowledge in companies.
In honor of Drucker McKinsey has made available a specail collection of his articles. You will be required to complete a free registration, but the articles are free to all registered readers this week.
These articles from the McKinsey Quarterly archive look at how companies can maximize the benefits from their in-house knowledge.
Limited-time special access:
Normally reserved for premium members, these articles are available to all site members until November 21. Read them for free this week only, and spread the word to your colleagues.
Best practice and beyond: Knowledge strategies
1998 Number 1
http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/links/19841
Managing the knowledge manager
2001 Number 3
http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/links/19845
Do you know who your experts are?
2003 Number 4
http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/links/19848
Making a market in knowledge
2004 Number 3
http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/links/19843
The 21st-century organization
2005 Number 3
http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/links/19847
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Monday, November 7, 2005
The Daily Drucker
The Daily Drucker makes a great holiday gift for that hard-to-please businessman, executive, or entrepreneur on your shopping list. Far more useful than those insipid success accessories or a bad tie, The Daily Drucker offers a small bites of wisdom from the most respected business thinker of our time. [More...]
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Tuesday, October 18, 2005
Feds demand more security for online banking
It's become apparent that US banks are simply not going to act on their own to increase security in online banking. Despite the absurdity of using nothing more than a 7-character pasword to protect a person's entire asset base, that's all BankofAmerica has in place. Even though I've written several letters to them complaining about the dangerous lack of security I've never gotten so much as a "how do you do" in response. It's about time regulators actually did something for us instead of to us. [via Freedom News Daily]HoustonChronicle.com - Feds demand more security for online banking
Associated Press BOSTON Federal regulators will require banks to strengthen security for Internet customers through authentication that goes beyond mere user names and passwords, which have become too easy for criminals to exploit.
Bank Web sites are expected to adopt some form of "two-factor" authentication by the end of 2006, regulators with the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council said in a letter to banks last week.
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The Road Ahead
A group discussion on what trends will most shape our lives in the future. Participants include the usual suspects - Tim O'Reilly, Esther Dyson, Moby, Malcolm Gladwell, Mark Dery, Clay Shirky, David Brooks - but it's still interesting. Some excepts (out of context):TIME Magazine - The Road Ahead
We assembled some of the smartest people we know to identify the trends that are most likely to affect our future. What we got was a fascinating discussion about religion, technology and politics and why no one's golf scores seem to be getting any better.
[...] MOBY: I know a guy in Barcelona who has started a company to develop algorithms to determine whether a song is going to be a hit. It analyzes music to figure it out--and they're selling it to the record companies, and it's quite effective. If you expand on that, there's no reason you couldn't have your own personal search engine that understands your taste and can instantly analyze music based on a whole bunch of different, very subjective criteria to determine whether you might like it. [...]
[...] GLADWELL: One of the big trends in American society is the transformation of the evangelical movement and the rise of a more mature, sophisticated, culturally open evangelical church. Ten years from now, I don't think we're going to have the kinds of arguments about religion that we have today. [...]
[...] DERY: The democratization of available avenues of possibility is always phrased in market-friendly terms. It's about purchasing power--the cornucopia of options available to those who can stuff their shopping carts and proceed to checkout. How many options were available to those who were marooned in New Orleans? [...]
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