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YPN Gets a Website!- July 23, 2003 Mark your calendars! It's tonight! Northeast Wisconsin's Young Professionals Network will celebrate it's journey from idea to reality with a networking and informational get together on Wednesday, July 23, 2003. Check out the website for all the details! http:www.ypnetwork.comhttp://www.danavan.net/weblog/blogger.html#105897587855575677 Building a Successful Web Team- July 16, 2003 Adaptive Path: The Nine Pillars of Successful Web Teams. Formal titles, job descriptions, and reporting structures can vary widely. But the best teams I've encountered have one important thing in common: their team structure and processes cover a full range of distinct competencies necessary for success. Granted, many web teams don't have 9 people. We actually get by on 3 - and we manage several sites. But together, we easily make up the 9 pillars necessary to form an effective...http://www.danavan.net/weblog/blogger.html#105836713921605717 Cat and Mouse- July 16, 2003 Users of the popular Kazaa service concerned about the RIAA monitoring what they download now have a new alternative. Two new clients include a range of features designed to thwart port monitoring and other scanning techniques. If you're worried about being busted, you need these programs. Check out the following link for details on where to find them, and what they do. http:www.extremetech.comarticle20,3973,1191474,00.asphttp://www.danavan.net/weblog/blogger.html#105836333711293236 On Becoming an Evangelist- July 15, 2003 I have found over and over that driving adoption of technology or changes of habit requires one to be the consummate evangelist. Yet, I guess I've never really been able to explain what an evangelist does. Here's a great article by Bill Day, Technology Evangelist for Sun Microsystems, which explains, in large part, what it means to be an evangelist. Bill sums up the evangelist role in the following way: "...an evangelist is someone who believes completely in what he is doing and "drives...http://www.danavan.net/weblog/blogger.html#105829322588189189 Understaffed and Overworked: Get Going!- July 14, 2003 Let's be realistic. Aren't we all understaffed and overworked at this point This article by Harvard Business School is actually quite insightful and gives some great, yet simple, strategies for dealing with amassing responsibilities and dwindling staff.http://www.danavan.net/weblog/blogger.html#105822027920965655 Generation X Employees Restless and Seeking Happiness- July 11, 2003 "I've never had a job that I didn't have fun at, and as soon as that job ceases to be fun, I've moved on." I've used this line on every employer I've had, and on every ex-girlfriend who says I work too much, to try to explain my philosophy about my lack of 'worklife balance.' Funny, I never paid much attention to being part of "Generation-X" until I read this article by Sarah Mahoney on Adweek.com, about the topic of Gen X workers in the advertising world. So, from the "Employers...http://www.danavan.net/weblog/blogger.html#105793323959312918 Digital camera + camera phone - printing pictures = Marketing Myopia- July 9, 2003 The July 3rd article on The Economist website, Are camera-phones good news or bad for the photography industry, hints at the same issues that were present with the railroad and the Hollywood film industry in Theodore Levitt's thesis on Marketing Myopia. Perhaps the "photo industry" simply has an ill-defined purpose. I'm not claiming to have the answers, although I'm not sure that someone within the walls of Kodak or Fuji have the answers either. The quote "For it was not the fish who...http://www.danavan.net/weblog/blogger.html#105775928171175054 Young Professionals Network Kick-Off in Green Bay, WI - July 23rd- July 8, 2003 Green Bay has needed this thing since, well, forever. Young Professionals Network Kick-Off on July 23rd. The YPN is designed to foster the ebullient flow of ideas amongst young, energetic professionals in the greater Green Bay area. Smashing. Brilliant. Actually, the event is not only for young professionals, but also for peer mentors who have been in the workplace for a while, and can lend good advice to up and coming professionals. A good mentor is hard to find, so bring your boss.http://www.danavan.net/weblog/blogger.html#105769020339169203 MarketingFix is now Up2Speed- July 3, 2003 Yes, I know this happened last century, but I gotta say something. Stop reading my site & go check out theirs.http://www.danavan.net/weblog/blogger.html#105727136958291407 Online agencies blamed for poor creativity in ads- July 3, 2003 From: New Media Age "Online creative agencies are failing to produce good work because of internal disagreements about what online advertising should achieve, and because they still prioritize technology and design over the communication of ideas." Let's see, the first thing that comes to mind is "who the hell let the agency decide what the online medium was to achieve." Isn't that MY business, as the client, to lay out what goals are to be met (direct response, branding, etc) and how I...http://www.danavan.net/weblog/blogger.html#105724076554982742 |