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Geography & Location-Based Apps: A Sales Perspective
I’ve been using several geo-based Apps on an iPhone 4S and trying to think through how they could be made more useful in traditional sales and marketing areas. I manage a team that sells high end...
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Quick Statistics on NC Amendment 1 Voting by County
Here are some quick graphs from the voting on NC Amendment 1. The Amendment declares marriage to be between, “A man and a woman,” thereby making matrimony and civil union the exclusive domain of...
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New and Improved is Coming to Advertising
Sean Connery as Duke Anderson. The Anderson Tapes, a 1971 crime thriller, foresaw the impact of a surveillance society, and in the introduction to our protagonist thief Duke Anderson, he exclaims,...
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Autonomous Vehicles: The Future of the Car
A Google Driverless Vehicle going through the paces on a test course. Photo from Wikimedia. There’s a coming inflection in how data and computational power are used in how we interact with vehicles....
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Biography: Harry S Truman
Audible.com is one of my favorite websites. The accomplishments of the 33rd US President, Harry S Truman, and the methods he used to achieve them are a great guide for the increasing complexity of the...
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Space Industry Organizations
SpaceX and Planetary Resources get plenty of attention, but the number of organizatinons doing interesting things around launch and orbital activities continues to grow. B612 Foundation B612 and...
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Software Tools for Listening to Spoken Audio
I love podcasts and audio books. They’re an educational and entertaining way to fill background time – unless work is involved, then Bob Dylan is best. Getting that spoken word content in a...
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Facts are Stubborn Things: The CrossFit Open
“Facts are stubborn things,” John Adams, Second President of the United States (1735 – 1826) The CrossFit Open is a very honest assessment. A few hundred thousand people do the same workout and you...
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Organizations Want to Live
Any organization, once it is created, takes on a life of its own. It wants to live. Just as Kevin Kelly describes ‘technology’ as a seventh kingdom of life, in many ways the individual organizations...
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Vendor Selection: The Bay Bridge
Choosing the right vendor is never easy. The California Department of Transportation’s recent woes with the $2 Bn updated suspension span segment that was overseen by the US construction firm Fluor...
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RTP Job Search 101: Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, Cary, etc.
RTP is a great place to live and work – the region and economy are growing, work life balance is good and there are many top tier employers. Through Elmarco‘s work with the NC State University College...
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Tech Forecasting: 6 years of DTNS / Tom Merritt Outlook (2 of 7)
“Whoever checks to see if these are right?” – Tom Merritt, 2014 / DTNS 2396 DTNS = Daily Tech News Show; a top podcast for listening to a recap of current tech news. End of year tech podcasts are full...
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Tech Forecasting and Predictions – Self Blindness (5 of 7)
Reviewing past podcast tech forecast shows reveals that the hosts are very good at making predictions – but it was surprising to me that those who had domain expertise were less likely to make...
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My Bad Calf Cramp was a Blood Clot
If you have a persistent bad calf cramp it could be indicative of a blood clot. A blood clot, once in your body, can break off, go elsewhere and get into your lungs and/or brain and kill you. I did...
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Planning and Preparation: Two Weeks in St. John, USVI
We had a long overdue trip this past summer and along with it had many questions about where we went and what we enjoyed. Planning Tools Past trips with family Packing lists (Wendy with beach and...
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“I hate your plan. (But I won’t suggest alternatives.)”
Pirie’s book is an alphabetical list of rhetoric, argument and logical techniques. Names can create power. Finding an existing accepted name is even more helpful. I encountered a management challenge...
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Believe the Team that is Doing It
Better batteries will definitely impact the automotive market, but there are a wide range of opinions as to how. The US Department of Energy estimated that nearly 1.2 million such vehicles were part...
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Recruiting and HR: Facets of a Job
We’ve had good success in recruiting and building a talented team. As part of that our job descriptions became much clearer in some ways, and less clear in others. We’ve also observed that our best...
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Nice Pants: Tactical Office Wear
Comfort is difficult to quantify. We tend to use air perm as our primary metric when working with water barrier materials. There are many high-end pants now on the market from non-traditional vendors...
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6 Ways to Get the Most out of Day 2 – #ISUM16
It’s Day 2 of the Internet Summit in Raleigh, NC. Here are six ways to get the most out of it, based on what was shared on Day 1. Enjoy. You’re out of the office. Like Al Madrigal said – you’re out...
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