The Saturday Summary – 9/17/2011

by Elmer Boutin Catchall

Here’s another round of interesting and informative articles I ran into this week …

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Are Leaders “Entitled?”

by Elmer Boutin Leadership

The other day I had a great conversation with someone about leadership. He mentioned that it was frustrating to work for a leader who felt they were “entitled.” He described this as someone who, when they achieve a certain leadership rank, feel that they can just lord it over the people under them and don’t have to get their hands dirty. In other words, the opposite of a servant leader. This reminded me of a certain young lieutenant I had some run-ins with while working in Germany …

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The Saturday Summary – 9/10/2011

by Elmer Boutin Catchall

There was a lot of news this week with more drama over at TechCrunch to the firing of Carol Bartz from Yahoo! and the overtures of AOL to purchase Yahoo!. Very interesting goings on, indeed. For possibly less interesting but certainly more practical news, here you go …

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PubCon – Coming Up Fast

by Elmer Boutin Marketing

If you’re still sitting on the fence, trying to decide if you should attend a conference this year, now is the time! It’s only two months until PubCon. I am very much looking forward to attending in Las Vegas November 8, 9 and 10, 2011 with two of my colleagues.

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Book Review: “Location-Based Marketing for Dummies” by Strout & Schneider

by Elmer Boutin Book Reviews

These days, there’s a lot of talk about location-based services and marketing via those channels. Some of that information is good and some not so good. I was very happy to hear two people who are very knowledgeable in the web marketing arena, namely Aaron Strout and Mike Schneider, were going to tackle this very important topic in book form.

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The Saturday Summary – 9/3/2011

by Elmer Boutin Catchall

The week started a little quiet in the news department, ending with news of another prototype iPhone being left in a bar and Michael Arrington’s departure from TechCrunch. Here are some other items I found useful this past week …

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Marketers Learning Tech – Installing Thesis Theme

by Elmer Boutin Marketers Learning Tech

We’ve come a long way in a short time in our WordPress lessons. Up until now, we’ve mostly stayed in the pre-built “plug and play” areas of the system. Now it’s time to start digging into more advanced stuff. Back in our fourth lesson I recommended you set aside some cash to purchase the Thesis Theme. Now it’s time to start digging into it.

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The Saturday Summary – 8/27/2011

by Elmer Boutin Catchall

With Steve Jobs announcing his resignation as CEO of Apple much of the news this week was somewhat overshadowed. But, life goes on and there was still a lot of great stuff to read this past week …

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Marketers Learning Tech – WordPress Widgets

by Elmer Boutin Marketers Learning Tech

So far in our journey looking at WordPress, we’ve stayed well within the parts of the system which make it easy to use, even for those with limited technical chops. As we move further along, however, we shall start getting into more tech and less “drag and drop.” The bridge for our transition is widgets.

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Tech Support Custom Code Cop Out

by Elmer Boutin In-House

I hereby claim I coined the term “Tech Support Custom Code Cop Out.” This is described as a lame excuse used by some tech support people to avoid dealing with a difficult issue a customer has with software or a service they purchased.

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