Archive for July 2007
Real Estate Housing Market – Just How Bad Is It?
Posted by: theprotagonist5 on: July 31, 2007
Like many of us, I am sure you too are wondering how bad the housing and Real Estate market is right now. You may own a home or some income property, or maybe you own one of the millions and billions of condos that have been built, converted and sold over value in the past [...]
Marketing & Advertising Blogs
Posted by: theprotagonist5 on: July 31, 2007
I have a few blogs I have found latley that I wanted to mention here. Both to give them the link, but also to pass them on to anyone reading in case they are looking for this kind of information about advertising and marketing. It is always interesting that there are so many people willing to blog [...]
Jimmy Fallon, Conan O’Brien & Jay Leno – NBC Late Night Dance
Posted by: theprotagonist5 on: July 31, 2007
NBC used to be the leading network in ratings and in ad sales ala the Sinefeld and Friends years, but the last few have been tougher for the network and their Ad Revenue. They have found success in smaller niche areas like online advertising, “The Office”, Network Evening News with Brian Williams (who is the new [...]
Tradeshow Season
Posted by: theprotagonist5 on: July 30, 2007
Chicago is called home to a lot of trade shows every year. With the McCormick Place 1, 2 & 3 we have more convention space than we know what to do with. It is a billion dollar business in Chicago for hotels and restaurants and we appreciate the extra tourism. Click here to see a list [...]
Simpsons Movie Marketing Everywhere!!
Posted by: theprotagonist5 on: July 29, 2007
The Simpsons Movie comes out today and all the world is in a flurry about it. All I want is a big pink glazed donut!!!!
Seriously though, they have been doing some innovative marketing for this movie and this ADOTAS article profiles them.
The thing I noticed first was the Simpson Generator on the movie’s web site. [...]
Newspapers Grow an Online Audience
Posted by: theprotagonist5 on: July 28, 2007
Newspapers used to be the way that the majority of Americans got their news. Along with radio and TV they were unchallenged for about 50 years. Everything changed when the Internet gained momentum and people started just reading news and updates online rather than subscribing to a newspaper. Newspapers thought that just reproducing the same [...]
Burger King Potato Chips???
Posted by: theprotagonist5 on: July 27, 2007
Burger King Potato Chips??? One is a Kethup and Fries flavor, the other is a Flame Broiled Burger Potato Chip.
You are what you read – CEO Libraries
Posted by: theprotagonist5 on: July 26, 2007
- In: Jobs| business| education
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This article in the Wall Street Journal talks about what books CEOs read and how they help them lead the companies they run. It is interesting because no one ever thinks of the CEO needing guidance. He or She is the one that is supposed to be guiding us right? But a lot of knowledge [...]
Unemployment Numbers by County
Posted by: theprotagonist5 on: July 25, 2007
Today the BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics) released county unemployment numbers for the US and in that announcement was this list of cities with the largest numbers of unemployed people. I live in Chicago so, Cook County in IL is the place I’m curious about and here it is #2 on the list with over [...]
Social Networking Site for Creatives Launches Improved Site « Release Me
Posted by: theprotagonist5 on: July 24, 2007
Social Networking Site for Creatives Launches Improved Site « Release Me
Hello Creatives! What a cool looking site. Deep down many of us thought we were destined to be a crative and then ended up somewhere in advertising or marketin by way of account management or analysis. I am always amazed at how much of advertising [...]
Garage Storage Cabinets Organization Systems
Posted by: theprotagonist5 on: July 24, 2007
Not all of us are Martha Stewart, thats for sure.
Some of us collect and accumulate things faster than we can account for them or find places to store them. And then one day you wake up and you have a garage full of Junk. Oops! I firmly believe that once a year the garage needs [...]
Chicago Blog Site
Posted by: theprotagonist5 on: July 24, 2007
I have decided to start another blog with the knowledge that I have gained on this blog over the past year. I have over 500 posts here on wordpress and I have between 50 and 150 visitors per day. I know that is small compared to millions that big sites get but it is a [...]
Web 1.0, 2.0 & 3.0? What is the difference?
Posted by: theprotagonist5 on: July 23, 2007
I’m not sure exactly what Web 3.0 is yet. I am pretty cool with Web 2.0 as it relates to Web 1.0, but it hasn’t been that long on #2 yet. I would have expected to notice more evolutionary change if they were going to label it a whole new version…I think it’s just a [...]
BP Environmental PR Disaster Lake Michigan
Posted by: theprotagonist5 on: July 23, 2007
- In: Links| business| news
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This week all of Chicago has been up in arms about this Chicago Tribune Article stating that BP got approval from Indiana to dump more ammonia and industrial waste sludge chemicals into Lake Michigan, which is the source for the majority of the MidWest’s drinking water and one of the largest fresh water reserves in the world. [...]
Chicagotribune.com Redesigned « Release Me
Posted by: theprotagonist5 on: July 23, 2007
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Chicagotribune.com Redesigned « Release Me
A press release about the Tribune Redesign.
I disgree slightly. I think it is functionally ok, but lacks a strong brand identity.
I also want to see how these “user interactions” really will work since you can’t comment on stories, only blogs.
Although, their adoption of blogs and video are good progressive steps.
I am also hopeful [...]
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