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Quick post to archive a good quote by Chris Brogan:
(…) social media isn’t a PR tool; it’s not a marketing tool ; it’s a communications tool and a media making/distribution tool set. And further, it’s not the only way to the finish line out there. It’s about working on the larger need [...]
In a world full of advertising and sales pitches, it’s the little things that count.
Like a handwritten note on the bottom of the fitness center’s invoice:
Bisch fleissig
The owner of the fitness center is a tough business woman. No discount. No rebate. No nothing. But she does build relationships. Which is [...]
A regular reader of Chiperoni.ch has suggested that I add a book list.
Yesterday I stopped by at the uni library and browsed thru the marketing section. I picked up “How Customers Think” by Gerald Zaltmann. And some pages caught my eye. The 10’000 feet view.
I recently talked to Persillie on the difficulty of following people’s tweet streams. Esp. if you have a limited time budget and can only tune into Twitter every so often.
For example, I follow Kathy Sierra’s stream at Twitter. You can see quite a few of her 140 character statements in my
I like this quote:
The GUI is the only contact the user has with the application.
that I found in this presentation:
which I found while surfing thru my Sitemeter stats.
An obvious fact. Yet…
When talking to software developers, I often hear complaints about the quality of code (especially [...]
Just a quick note to point to an interesting interview with an official of MTN Uganda at:
Appfrica: Interview With MTN’s Erik van Veen – Part 1
These points caught my eye:
(…) revenues per user, are very low in Africa by international standards, and require a low cost operating model if [...]
I am learning a lot from the African blogs I am reading…
App+frica recently wrote about useful web applications for bloggers in developing countries.
In his list he mentions Zemanta:
Zemanta, which just scored a new round of funding from Union Square Ventures, is a huge time saving tool. It’s a [...]
Interesting background article, for future reference:
We can start with a simple user question: why would we ever pay for anything that we could get for free? When anyone buys a version of something they could get for free, what are they purchasing?
From my study of the network economy I see roughly eight categories [...]
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Update:
Finally, fixed the Terong Related Links plugin, which hasn’t been working for the past months since I upgraded to WP 2.5. I found this fix here and simply replaced the PHP code as described. [...]
