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Archive for March 5th, 2008

How Great is This?

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

This is great on so many levels. "We want wings! We want wings!" is such a great chant!

Pretty Amazing

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

Backstrom is in the top 13 in assists in the entire NHL right now. He is ahead of some pretty impressive names.

Internews on Women Who Are Changing The Face of News

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

Check it out. Important work from an important source.

These Are The Kind of Articles…

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

In petroleum-based dying newspapers that drive me crazy! :-) Just lazy reporting not connected to what is happening. Misleading. Poorly researched. And we are trying to market ourselves to Baltimore fans via the Baltimore Sun. l am glad I have a blog so I can respond to these articles.

 Here is an article by a writer who I haven

Manifesto For Management in This New World Order

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

I was recently interviewed to be on a board of directors of a big public international consumer and media marketing company. I turned down the opportunity but in the interviews, I was asked for a ten point plan for management on what I would do to modernize this concern. Here is the email that I wrote, redacted and shortened for confidentiality.

 What I would do? My ten point plan: 1. I would put the majority of my time and attention into global expansion with a focus on China and India. That is where the growth is. I would bring into my domestic headquarters executives that have run international businesses. I would check schedules of my executives. If they weren

O Canada

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

Hear it for yourself. What do you think?

NHL vs. NBA Attendance

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

Here is something that will surprise the experts. Hillary Clinton is back in the race and the NHL is neck and neck or maybe even passed the NBA in total attendance to date.

From SportsBusiness Daily

Down The Stretch: NHL Passes NBA In Average Attendance

With a little more than a month left in the NBA and NHL regular seasons, the NHL

Big Joe Finley

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

Kudos to Ryan for a good story on Joe Finley. We have high hopes for Joe and Karl Alzner too. We have a lot more prospects in the pipeline that can play for our team. This is only good news.