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	Sunday, June 26, 2005

MarketingSherpa's 2005 Best Blog winners   (Reviews) Marketing Sherpa announced their top 10 blogs as chosen by 2,065 tough judges who carefully evaluated 52-nominated blogs to pick them. Best individual's blog on the general topic of marketing and advertising Seth Godin's Blog http://www.sethgodin.com/sg/blog.html   Honorable Mention: Adrants http://www.adrants.com Best group weblog on the general topic of marketing and advertising Winner: MarketingVOX http://www.marketingvox.com Honorable Mention (Tie): Marketing Genius http://marketinggenius.blogspot.com Church of the Customer http://www.churchofthecustomer.com Best PR-topic blog Winner: Media Guerrilla http://mmanuel.typepad.com/media guerrilla Honorable Mention: Strategic Public Relations http://www.prblog.typepad.com Best B-to-B marketing-topic blog Winner: Guerrilla Consulting http://guerrillaconsulting.typepad.com Honorable Mention: B-to-B Lead Generation Blog http://blog.startwithalead.com/ Best blog on small business marketing Winner: Duct Tape Marketing http://www.DuctTapeMarketing.com/weblog.php Honorable Mention: Small Business Trends http://www.smallbusinesses.blogspot.com Best blog on online marketing Winner: Chris Baggott's Best Practices in Email http://exacttarget.typepad.com/chrisbaggott Honorable Mention: Charlotte Li's Blog http://blogs.forrester.com/charleneli/ Blogs on Search Marketing Winner: Search Engine Roundtable http://www.seroundtable.com Honorable Mention: Brad Fallon http://www.bradfallon.com Best Blog on Niche Marketing  Winners (tie): Ypulse - Media for the Next Generation http://www.ypulse.com/ WonderBranding - Marketing to Women http://michelemiller.blogs.com/marketing to women Honorable Mention: Lipsticking- Smart marketing to women online http://windsormedia.blogs.com/lipsticking Best non-English-Language Blog Winner: MarketingFacts (completely in Dutch) http://www.mediafact.nl/weblog.php Honorable mention: Media Culpa (in Swedish with some English) http://www.kullin.net/ Top readers' choice write-in vote Winner: Easy Bake Weblogs http://easybakeweblogs.com Honorable Mention: Collateral Damage (CMO Magazine) http://www.cmomagazine.com/blog view.html?ID=401 Details on this SherpaMarketing link.   12:32:11 PM     comment []   trackback []

	Saturday, June 25, 2005

Review of a Game Site  (Reviews) I chanced upon this site Gawken - Video Game News & Stories.  Although I am not much of a gamer, I could see the site as interesting, informative and well designed.  If you are a game aficionado, and loves to play and get the latest updates on PS2, Xbox, Nintendo, PSP, and others, this is a great site that gives succinct summaries of what is happening when and where.   3:36:29 PM     comment []   trackback []

	Sunday, June 19, 2005

LinkBlog 1  (Reviews) I am starting to include in my reading reviews also reviews of links -- effectively what industry would call a linkblog( first here, but soon only in my readings/linkblog category).  Here I share  some of the great web sites I read and track, which I have not had time to put into my blogroll, or those sites which needs to be initially explained why the site is so compelling. First is you should try to check out the site, Ask Dave Taylor.  This is a great site where an industry guru answers( and he has answered over 500 of them)  common questions on using technology, from windows xp, to ebay, to blogs, to playstations,  to web design, and the like.  To get started, you might want to check out his specific questions to the most popular questions he has been given, which many will also be of interest to you. Another great technology news site, in which the author presents a neat summary of updates is LastRider's blog. Pls. feel free to write me if you want to be included --- no promises....  Please note that my linkblog is very subjective.  It has to be a blog I like, and it has to talk about issues that I am interested on, and consistent to my Bizdrivenlife tagline, ' a technology entrepreneur's take on winning in business ... and in life.'     11:24:51 AM     comment []   trackback []

	Monday, June 13, 2005

Coach Carter Review  (Reviews) The movie, starring Samuel Jackson, is based on a real life story of a basketball coach, who believes that life is more than winning basketball, and it is about winning in life.  He advocates being tough, and espouses discipline and education as central to success. It does have some good parallelisms in a workplace.  As a coach, he is also a manager, and a teacher, one who is responsible on training and motivating people how to move up in life.  And nothing is harder a job than to convince people about your principles of success and the means to get there than when they don't agree with you on what success is.  Coach Carter had difficulty when initially, the players already become bull headed after a small success, and also increasingly with parents and teachers who believed that dumbing down standards is the way to go.  They want success but do not understand that success, or at least sustainable success needs to be properly courted and won over. We all want the best for our people and our children, but are we prepared to be tough for them to get there? Great performance from Samuel Jackson, and it is great to see that Hollywood still turns out movies that motivates and inspires.  I see myself as being advantaged because I have read good books, and watch inspirational movies, and this is definitely one to see.  I may also get the book as I was informed it is also well-written and inspiring. Five stars out of five.   8:42:32 PM     comment []   trackback []

	Sunday, June 12, 2005

Madagascar  (Reviews) It is a great movie. It tells of four animals who lived in the zoo in bliss but yearned to go out to see the 'world'. It is an entertaining comedy.  Sometimes when you see comedies, it discourages you when you hear trite or overused jokes. Here the humor is fresh and original. But what endears I think is that you can identify with the characters because you see in them the characteristics of many people you know today ---   brash, loud, short-sighted, friendly, unappreciative of what they have and funny ....  These characters, described as 'New Yorkers' are now really found everywhere in the world.  We are now all in some way, consumers and practitioners of American junk. Then there are the penguins -- psychos they are called , because they prefer to live in the tropical country and get a tan... There is Alex, the lion, who cannot get over losing his 'steak', and there is Marty, the Zebra who feels that there is more to life than being contended and 'filled', and there is the giraffe and the hippo whose main mission in life is to find identity by  logging along with their friends... Interesting, original, entertaining.  But most important, we see ourselves in the characters and story that they spun. Five stars out of five.   5:44:00 PM     comment []   trackback []