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Re: Facebook has no moral compass

Nathan Gilliatt — Thu, 18 Oct 2018 10:53:15 -0000

"Just be normal" assumes knowledge of what's normal. Does the famously youth-centric culture of the industry allow for that kind of institutional knowledge?

Re: Judiciary and Commerce committees move to checkmate Facebook

Nathan Gilliatt — Thu, 12 Apr 2018 10:49:33 -0000

IOW, before you can score someone's performance, you need to know what game they're playing.

Re: Managing Time Zones

Nathan Gilliatt — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 08:49:31 -0000

1. Get used to the GMT +/- notation. It's a good sanity check. Even if you don't use it in communication, it's a fixed reference for your conversion math.
2. Always use time zones in written communication and include both (use one of the online calculators to check the difference as well as the name of the target time zone). I like to use the official abbreviations, as opposed to "my time" and "your time."
3. Use the calculators to navigate the hazard of different summer time rules.
4. Remember that others also have trouble with time zones, especially the summer time rules (e.g., summer in the UK is BST, not GMT, but many events will say EST and GMT when they mean EDT/BST).

Re: Hamilton: More pit stops to cure boring Monaco GP

Nathan Gilliatt — Fri, 27 May 2016 10:52:03 -0000

"reverse grids, sprinklers and short cuts"

Maybe some turtle shells to mix things up, too. :-)

Re: Write It Down

Nathan Gilliatt — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 12:08:33 -0000

It's a short walk to the home office. :-)

Re: Write It Down

Nathan Gilliatt — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 11:12:57 -0000

I ended up writing on the whiteboard for a couple of hours one night, as new ideas kept popping up (related to the initial topic), There was no way I was going to be able to sleep without getting through to the end of that creative process.

In the process, I discovered a secret: I was using a red flashlight to avoid the blue light problem, and I happened to use a light green marker—which is dark grey under red light. Highly readable, but not disruptive to going back to sleep.

Re: The Year in M&A, Social Media Analysis 2015

Nathan Gilliatt — Wed, 16 Mar 2016 11:20:39 -0000

Not from me. I'm not a financial analyst. At a glance, Hottolink and IBM are the two publicly held acquirers last year (meaning there are regulatory filings), but the businesses they bought are unlike most in the space.

Re: Let’s all go to Canada

Nathan Gilliatt — Tue, 26 Jan 2016 15:46:10 -0000

Allons-y!

Re: New Social Listening Survey You Should Participate In

Nathan Gilliatt — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 11:14:00 -0000

Thank you, Jason.

Re: Are You From Where You Were Born?

Nathan Gilliatt — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 09:37:46 -0000

Thanks, Brad. I've lived most of my life in North Carolina, but those first two years on an army post uncheck the "born here" box for me. I would never say I was "from" somewhere I didn't remember seeing until I visited after college.

Re: The Year in M&A, Social Media Analysis 2014

Nathan Gilliatt — Tue, 06 Jan 2015 13:25:26 -0000

Thanks, Simon. :-)

Re: The power of note taking and re-reading

Nathan Gilliatt — Thu, 20 Nov 2014 11:46:41 -0000

It's a good idea, Marshall. And thanks for the helpful links to other note-taking posts.

I find similar benefits from taking notes on my own ideas, especially the incomplete thoughts. Write 'em down, sketch 'em out, and maybe they'll grow into something when you revisit them. Sometimes I do my best thinking when I try to explain myself verbally, so that's another time to get something on paper—both the aha moment and the contribution of the person you're talking with.

I have an example in mind, but it's still in the handwritten phase. ;-)

Re: Welcome to The Contrarian’s Guide

Nathan Gilliatt — Mon, 06 Oct 2014 14:58:00 -0000

Love the angle. Looking forward to seeing where it leads.

Re: Trackur Gives APIs Own Brand

Nathan Gilliatt — Thu, 04 Sep 2014 12:07:41 -0000

Sure, Andy. It's what we do here. :-)

Re: Is Inbound Marketing Actually Profitable or Just a Slogan

Nathan Gilliatt — Thu, 28 Aug 2014 08:12:50 -0000

It means we need test cases outside the marketing industry. How is inbound working for companies that sell widgets and gadgets? Segment by products and services, B2B and B2C, for-profit and non-profit, regional and national markets, normal/inferior/luxury goods... We're running the experiments now, right?

Re: Is Inbound Marketing Actually Profitable or Just a Slogan

Nathan Gilliatt — Thu, 28 Aug 2014 07:56:50 -0000

This strikes me as an important point: marketing to marketers is different, so the degree of a company's success in using a particular marketing strategy to reach marketers doesn't necessarily imply the strategy's usefulness in reaching other groups.

Re: Replacing 70 million consumers with 35 million

Nathan Gilliatt — Wed, 06 Aug 2014 15:21:04 -0000

Booking the TV shows now…

Re: Replacing 70 million consumers with 35 million

Nathan Gilliatt — Wed, 06 Aug 2014 15:11:06 -0000

Clearly, we're expected to spend twice as much, which will be easy, since the Boomers are known for their thrift and we're making so much more.

Re: Website redesign tips and reminders: The new Geofeedia.com

Nathan Gilliatt — Thu, 12 Jun 2014 19:00:23 -0000

Re: Website redesign tips and reminders: The new Geofeedia.com

Nathan Gilliatt — Thu, 12 Jun 2014 18:22:11 -0000

Yes! Much better! :-)

Re: Website redesign tips and reminders: The new Geofeedia.com

Nathan Gilliatt — Thu, 12 Jun 2014 16:42:34 -0000

How about an RSS feed for those of us who want to catch your updates?

Re: Restoration Hardware’s 3,300 pages of catalogs get shredded by 140 character tweets

Nathan Gilliatt — Mon, 09 Jun 2014 11:25:01 -0000

Marketplace had an interesting piece on this last week. The surprise is that RH went to a massive, annual catalog as a way to reduce its total catalog printing (and got increased sales in the process).

http://www.marketplace.org/...

Still, it's good for people who will never buy from the catalog to get themselves off the list.

Re: The Limits to Personal Data Use and Abuse

Nathan Gilliatt — Wed, 21 May 2014 10:53:48 -0000

Well, we already discussed cover design. That's a commitment, right? ;-)

Re: The Wire’s David Simon: Capitalism created two Americas

Nathan Gilliatt — Sun, 08 Dec 2013 16:45:35 -0000

If only this topic could stir the level of interest and discussion that the Guitar Center does.

Re: How Not to Sing ‘O Holy Night’

Nathan Gilliatt — Tue, 03 Dec 2013 10:30:33 -0000

At the other end of the spectrum, I really love this version.

http://www.youtube.com/watc...