Month: July 2005

  • Pink Floyd at Live8

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    I love Pink Floyd and I was in awe when I saw then play together once more at the Live8 concert last weekend. Now AOL has put up a site where you can see highlights from the Live8 concert – the Floyd songs are: Breathe Money Wish you were here and Comfortably numb If you…

  • Microsoft to embrace web standards?

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    No really – it is seemingly true. First Microsoft announce support for RSS and now the Web Standards Project announce that they have formed a task force with Microsoft Corp. to provide support as the company increases Web standards support in its products including Microsoft Visual Studio and ASP.NET The announcement goes on to say:…

  • Blogging builds relationships

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    People buy from people – more specifically, people buy from people they like (and trust) – this is one of the first lessons of sales. I was reading the following in Naked Conversations – the Business Blogging book being written online currently by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel – 100 years ago it was very…

  • Bosses who Blog – How Irish CEOs are using weblogs to boost business

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    Tom Raftery
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    I was buying the Sunday Papers this morning when I spotted the headline “Bosses who … Blog – How Irish CEOs are using weblogs to boost business” on the front cover of the Sunday Business Post‘s Computers in Business section – so obviously, with a strong interest in Business blogging, I bought it. The article,…

  • Business blogging "brings the most marketing and sales returns"

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    Business blogging more than pays for itself according to a study carried out by Backbone Media – a Boston based company specialising in integrated search engine marketing and website design strategies for Business to Business companies. The survey includes case studies of blogs run by IBM, Microsoft, Maytag, iUpload, and Macromedia. The study, available online…

  • myRMA.net

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    myRMA.net is a service logistics hosted application (for Returns administration, logistics and service centre management) developed by Chip eServices – Chip eServices are former employers of mine – I was CTO from early 2002 to Dec. 2003. myRMA.net is a very innovative product in a very niche market. If ever there were a product/company in…