Posts Tagged ‘Noodle Revue’

A lot of great articles for you in this week’s digital business trends roundup:

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An exciting week for Ruder Finn and PR Week blogs. Ruder Finn co-CEO has been feature this week on PR Week’s ‘Insider‘ blog. Check it out here:
When pandemics go viral
and
Rebuild trust through strong leadership

Have already been posted, and another one is due up Friday. I encourage you all to comment.

Also, Ged Carrol, Ruder Finn UK‘s new director of digital strategy has been hosting a blog on PR Week’s UK site:

Kittens, babies, sunsets or flowers? Life online

Some recent posts:
That ain’t Digg bait, it’s just good PR

The name of the game

Interview with Matt McGinnis of Dell Global Comms, Enterprise Products

Enjoy!

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New York Magazine: In Defense of Distraction:
Twitter, Adderall, lifehacking, mindful jogging, power browsing, Obama’s BlackBerry, and the benefits of overstimulation.

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WSJ (All Things D): Why Online Video Ads Still Don’t Work, by Peter Kafka

Extremely hilarious video on integrated eye-popping web placements to leverage buzz for up-leveled cascading paradigms.

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WSJ: From Moore’s Law to Barrett’s Rules, By Michael Malone

Intel’s chairman on antitrust silliness and the secrets of high-tech success. He say

- The business is bigger than the business.
- Don’t mess with Moore’s Law.
- Invest during hard times.
- Consensus is good — except when it isn’t .
- Follow the business, not Wall Street.
- When something works, don’t re-invent it, reproduce it.
- It pays to have good competitors.

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BusinessWeek: CEOs Who Twitter

50 CEOs who find tweeting a personal and professional delight.

Here’s the list boiled down: http://is.gd/BkPv

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WSJ blog, Gary Hamel’s Management 2.0: Empowering Natural Leaders in ‘Facebook Generation’ Ways
Asks some interesting questions:
What’s your advice to natural leaders who feel stymied by the formal hierarchy? How can they use the new social technologies of the Web to extend their influence and accelerate the pace of change?

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And finally, here’s a site that tracks journalists on Twitter:
http://muckrack.com/

It has a great interface, and helped me find @alansmurray‘s great feed.

Enjoy this week’s Noodle Revue roundup!

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24/7 WallStreet: The Sun Sets On BusinessWeek, Forbes, And Fortune

The May 11 issue of Fortune Magazine is a perfect demonstration of what the three largest business magazines have done for decades. Its cover story, “How Bernie Did It’ is the culmination of a four-month investigation into the details of Bernie Madoff’s life and business operations written and reported by three of Fortune’s best editorial staff members, one of whom is a Pulitzer Prize winner. This issue of Fortune is also an example of why the magazine and its competitors Forbes and BusinessWeek, will soon no longer be able to publish these kinds of stories. The May 11 issue has 92 printed pages and covers. There are only 21 pages of paid advertising compared with more than a hundred pages in a spring issue 20 years ago.

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Speaking of Forbes:
Forbes: A Cloud In Every Garage

Written by Russ Daniels,  CTO of Cloud Services Strategy at HP.

In light of all of the historical comparisons about the current economic situation and its proposed fixes, I’d like to offer my own perspective based on technology trends that have the potential to re-ignite growth for decades. My analogy comes from what at first sounds like an unlikely source: the automobile industry.

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And speaking of HP:
PC Magazine: RIM, HP Announce BlackBerry Print-on-the-Go Tech

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Swine flu goes viral?
http://www.miniclip.com/games/sneeze/en/

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Social Media Today: Ethics and Facebook

Can a lawyer hire a third person to send a “friend request” to a witness? According to an opinion from the Philadelphia Bar Association’s Professional Guidance Committee the answer is no.

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YouTube: Google founder Larry Page commencement speech at U of Michigan. The phrase “class of 2009″ send shivers down my spine:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFb2rvmrahc

Larry Page’s grandfather was an assembly worker at the Chevy plant in Flint Michigan, and his dad thought that computers were a fad. A touching story about his dad.

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MediaPost: Murdoch Jabs At Facebook’s Fast-Growing Audience

Rupert MurdochRupert Murdoch took a swipe at MySpace rival Facebook Thursday after News Corp. reported weaker-than-expected sales at its Fox Interactive Media unit, which consists mainly of MySpace. FIM online ad revenue during News Corp.’s fiscal third quarter ending Mar. 31 dropped 16% while the unit’s revenue overall fell 11% to $187 million.

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McKinsey Quarterly: Memo to the CEO: Why we need an annual report for technology

The IT organization and the business units should be much more in tune. Here’s one way to make that happen.

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