Creativity and Complexity - CEO Study From IBM
First let me thank IBM for committing to excellence and curiosity. This is their work and it’s probably the best “thing” you’ll read this year and the shortest at 76 pages but worth every moment you spend. Enjoy!
Here’s what the site Design Mind (thanks and love the site) had to say and where I originally found the link t...
Apps and Advertising - It's Raining Sales
It seems that it’s raining sales from advertising place on apps.
From MediaPost Blogs, “App Ads Precipitate Sales” by Jack Loechner
A recent study from mobile audience media company JiWire revealed that, of the roughly 1,000 smartphone users surveyed, 52% claim they have acted on an advertisement in an app and 18% have made a purcha...
NewsPapers and Pay Content
Please hear me, I still believe this is a capitalistic country and if you produce “it,” you have every right to charge for the sweat of your labor. But it’s extremely difficult when you first give it away to later start charging especially after years of giving it away under an advertising model. Look at the Wall Street Journal, they made pay online su...
iPad by Apple
Remember that post a few months ago about iPad and the Apple new content delivery system, “Direct to Device - iContent By Apple,” well here’s a great follow up look at two areas of content and the iPad.
cNet and PaidContent dot org By Rafat Ali Apr 17, 2010 12:50 AM ET
“Can iPad Save Newspapers & Magazines?”
Yesterday I was part of CNET’s Reporter...
I found this little gem at InformationWeek - Global CIO Blog, the piece was written by Bob Evans, Senior VP - Global CIO. Here’s the video - enjoy!
Can a 5-minute animated video capture a technology company’s global vision? IBM’s “The Internet Of Things” YouTube clip is inspiring and compelling and the sort of fresh thinking more tech companies should try, although I...
Twitter’s new monetization platform is coming soon to a tweet near you. It seems that twitter’s co-founder, Biz Stone was on CNBC and spilled the beans on a coming so called non-advertising methodology for Twitter, that will be rolled out later this month.
Via Silicon Alley Insider -
At the 1:50 mark, CNBC anchor Michelle Caruso-Cabrera says (paraphrasing), ‘I use UberTwitter, wh...
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About Google Wave
Google Wave is an online tool for real-time communication and collaboration. A wave can be both a conversation
and a document where people can discuss and work together using richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.
What is a wave?
A wave is equal parts conversation and document. People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, m...
Late Night Lists
Don’t get me wrong by reading at my title but I love lists all those pages full of life saving advice, neatly listed out for my convenience. I lov’em and I don’t use the word love lightly or often but I’m in love with all those cute lists, as much as any online tip-hound but things are getting a little out of hand.
Look at these search results - “Tips...
Innovation - Creative Services from Stella Pop
Don’t say at Stella Pop, we don’t provide instant and creative solutions to your everyday business obstacles. Found this list at Wellsphere and loved it, here it is for you. Use it and prosper:
1. Invent and share a refreshing solution to a stubborn work problem – solve a difficulty that leaves you bored or in a rut at work. Brain fa...
Eric Schmidt of Google fame writes that the model for innovation in America has to change from a top down trickle method to a bottom up via the availability of information online. This sounds about right to me and we better get working fast to cultivate and nurture our entrepreneur spirit in this country.
Eric Schmidt — Washington Post — February 2010
Google CEO Eric Schmidt to newspap...
Every business has a special message that can stimulate an audience to connect with you. Here’s a great example of a quirky film with some big names stars and it serves as the perfect example of the online video content possibilities for any business:
It’s a simple storyline and could apply to any business or brand message providing a little clever creativity and cunning brand message...
Business Books - Advertising, Marketing & Branding
I know finding time to read is getting tougher and tougher especially if your an entrepreneur or business person hustling to beat your competitors and the economy. I’ll make it easy for you with a list of must reads which will bring your marketing, advertising, social media, creative initiatives and branding up to speed, thinking and on ...
stella pop ideas
I believe we are living in a moment in history when those with the ideas, will be far ahead of those that just do jobs. Want to make more money, advance your career and prepare for the future - get creative or find an organization with the desire to challenge and chase the creation of ideas. Make sure of one thing, that this organization creating ideas - delivers.
The Economist be...
I grew up traveling all over the United States and we drove that fire engine red Ford LTD with tan leather interior everywhere. I better come clean now with my dad. Dad sorry it was me who unlaced all the leather stitched rear seats.
I’m sorry, it was just to much to resist and I was tired of looking at the Wyoming country side.
Have fun with this one! I bet you can’t get them all?
Sig...
Apple's New Direct to Device
Apple quite possibly is about to dominate another of the online arena - content delivered directly to a device. The iPad could be another game changer for Apple by creating an iTunes like interface which customers will customized content for daily delivery.
I expect in the next two or three years a new online store from Apple, “iContent” which will be g...
Twitter's World Wide Guide - Lady Gaga
Twitter is the shortest and most direct connection to the what’s going on in the world - a world wide guide.
When you set up your follows, you find the topics, people and ideas that interest whether it’s for today or forever and your tweet-in-box gets filled with everything you ‘might’ want to read, watch or scan. Twitter is the n...
Seth Godin and StellaPop!
I’ve read a whole big bunch of Seth Godin books and today after starting another “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?” It made me think, what the hell is he trying to say in all of them? Is there a common thread? I don’t definitively know but I think there is and it’s incredibly simple.
Here’s what I think he’s saying:
Start
Simplif...
Get Social With Stella Pop
This information on “Mind Blowing Social Media Statistics” comes from Econsultancy dot com and was posted by Jake Hird.
It’s around six months since I last threw out some truly mindboggling pieces of data surrounding social media. So, what’s happened between then and now?
I try to put as much information as I can into Econsultancy’s Social Media Stat...
DC’s Grammy Nominee Kokayi, Partners with Ms. DC and Goodwill of Greater Washington.
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Published on January 8, 2010, 12:24 PM By Drea M.
Stella Pop, Kokayi and Miss DC
Music is a no holds barred industry. Whether this power is used for good or evil is subject to respective digression, but the local music scene in Washington, DC making good - collaborating unlikely el...
Stella's Pop Factory
Will you join by me in repeating our pledge? The entrepreneurs manifesto and declaration of rights pledging undying support for the worldwide spirit of the entrepreneur.
The world’s entrepreneur collectively are sitting on the edge of their business seats awaiting change which is a great place to be but feels uncomfortable. The small business landscape is going throu...
I believe there isn’t anything you cannot do. Especially if you have passion, faith, energy and thick skin. It all starts with starting.
e-mc2
It’s not always going to be easy but what is that’s worth doing. Remember the clerk with a good head for numbers and the crazy hair? Well he birthed an equation that changed the world and changed his life in the process. Some people will s...
Miss DC 2009 - Jen Corey
Stella Pop and Goodwill last week launched the first part in a series of branding and content marketing video vignettes about the green benefits of shopping at Goodwill. This three part video series follows Miss District of Columbia, Jen Corey and the DC Goodwill Fashionista, as they set out on a Goodwill treasure hunt searching for recycled furniture and accessories to...
sarah palin
Sarah Palin will now be appearing on Fox Business Network. Does this point to a new breed of television show - The Reality, Reality Show?
I’m not picking sides here, what american really cares: Republican or Democrat, good or bad, conservative or liberal, shirts or skins, socialist or capitalist, blue or red, doesn’t really matter. It’s one big, well paying football g...
It’s always nice to read an article that oozes kindness and thoughtfulness. “All About Goodwill: Miss DC’s Recycling Platform (And How We Can All Take A Stand) By Cynthia Bosnian of City Renewed is just that kind of good- hearted and giving article with a community perspective. What makes it so thoughtful? Simplicity - the simplicity of giving those slightly used clothing and...
