Universal Broadband “While the US talks, other countries are acting. Both Finland and Spain have now decided to add ‘broadband’ to their universal [telephone] service requirements.
"By 2011, any Finn or Spaniard, no matter where they live, should be able to get a reliable 1Mbps connection at a reasonable price,” ars technical.com reports.
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It’s news to me: Who to trust? “For the first time in recent years, voters trust Republicans more than Democrats on all 10 key electoral issues regularly tracked by Rasmussen Reports. The GOP holds double-digit advantages on five of them,” Rasmussen reported today, 10-24-09.
The polling organization asked this question: “I’m going to read you a short list of issues in the news. For each, please let me know which political party you trust more to handle that issue.” Responses were:
Healthcare
...D-40%; R-46%
Education
...D-38%; R-43%
Social Security
...D-37%; R-45%
Taxes
...D-35%; R-50%
Economy
...D-35%; R-49%
Abortion
...D-35%; R-47%
Immigration
...D-33%; R-40%
National Security
...D-31%; R-54%
Iraq
...D-31%; R-50%
Government Ethics
...D-29%; R-33%
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Warren Buffett on CNBC's Squawk Box 3-1-10
Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, is legendary as the world’s second richest person and as an investor who examines businesses with a keen eye toward accurately assessing present fair value and future profit potential.
During this morning’s CNBC’s Squawk Box segment, Buffett responded broadly to a question about Toyota’s [...]
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Social media like Twitter and Facebook are growing up and [...]
Business communicators should find very instructive the mushrooming of issues and emergence of discontent evident during the summer Congressional recess.
When Congress recessed for the annual August month of hometown visits and foreign junkets, healthcare reform seemed to be the one issue the lawmakers would have to contend with when they returned to generally friendly home [...]
Social Media Engagement by Wetpaint & Altimeter
Few successful executives dismiss social media as an important facet of their total marketing mix, especially if they are retail focused. Yet, many remain skeptical of social media proponents’ ability to accurately assign a monetary value to use of the technology.
However, a new social media study — with [...]
CEOs and communicators have a partnership challenge in prying America out of this worst recession since the Great Depression. For each CEO, the responsibility is envisioning and executing a dramatic recovery strategy. For the communicator, it is ensuring that all critical stakeholders understand and support their responsibilities within the strategy.
GE CEO Jeff Immelt
GE’s CEO [...]
What communicator hasn’t been smacked in the face by a writer’s unfavorable product review? After all, not all aspects of all products are winners all of the time.
So, it is with a modicum of sadistic glee that we read about someone else’s pain, and what surely will be The New York Times’ last product review [...]
Ray Charles plays and sings “America, the Beautiful” during a 1991 concert.
One of the problems with being the lead horse in any race is that it’s difficult to know when the rest of the pack is gaining on you. Depicting that reality with respect to America’s position in the world is the idea behind creation of a video called “Did you know.”
The producers are two educators, [...]
It seems that practically everything said about the global economic crisis is rapidly becoming — if it isn’t already — a cliché. The atmospheric metaphors and similes are about as abundant as warm days are scarce this Spring.
And, this year’s strategic planning season predictable will be filled with anxious laments about a total lack of [...]
It seems that it is times like these — the global economic crisis, you know — that make us aware of the need for, or the lack of, leadership among our institutions of business and government. Perhaps that quality is present, or not, during “normal” times,” but it is only when we actually [...]
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