Surviving the Shakeout in Consumer Health Sites
August 27, 2008 By Shahid N Shah
Categories: eHealth
The folks over at Health Content Advisors talk about the business side of online consumer health firms. With big firms like Revolution Health not doing well, it’s getting a little scarier if you don’t have deep pockets to make the advertising model work.
As a blogger whose been around the block and...
Follow up to "Delight" post
August 25, 2008 By Paul Marshall
Categories: General
More and more you are starting to see super exciting roles for "Community Manager's" at exciting young tech companies. In most cases I view these roles as the Chief Delightment Officer at a company who engages with, support and befriends the community and makes the product, brand and company real to...
Interview Questions for Prospective Website Managers
August 22, 2008 By Glen Farrelly
Categories: IT Staffing Solutions
Before I left my previous job, I was asked to come up with some questions on what would be good job interview questions to ask of a prospective website manager. This is for a jack-of-all-trades and hands-on kind of manager that needs to know a lot of things to run a website. Here's what I came up...
I want a flying car, but maybe it's not a good idea
August 20, 2008 By Peter Wolchak
Categories: General
Back in 2004, we published an article on what life would be like in the year 2014. We did not predict flying cars by then--and sadly that was a prudent decision--but with any luck we may just have jet packs in the near future.
That article, written by renowned Canadian sci-fi novelist Robert J....
E-books have yet to take off in the mainstream; it seems people really like the old technology: paper. Enter Sony’s new Reader, which goes further towards duplicating the paper experience than has any other device.