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How MSP’s Can Take Advantage of B2B Marketing Automation – Part 1

By David Dodd on July 28th, 2010 - Comment

In my recent post about B2B marketing automation, I suggested that the growing use of marketing automation technologies will create demand for a new group of marketing services.  To fully realize the benefits of marketing automation, B2B companies will need to define marketing and sales processes more precisely, and they will need to implement new…

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Will the iPad Cannibalize the Macintosh?

By Howie Fenton on July 26th, 2010 - 5 Comments

Apple announced last week that the iPad will be sold in nine more countries: Austria, Belgium, Hong Kong, Ireland, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand and Singapore starting July 23. With last weeks launches, the iPad is now available in a total of 19 countries including Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland, the UK…

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Boarman Nomination Heads to Full Senate

By Cary Sherburne on July 22nd, 2010 - Comment

WhatTheyThink was notified yesterday by the Senate Rules Committee that: “The Senate Rules and Administration Committee voted to discharge the nomination of William J. Boarman out of committee. It will now go to a vote on the Senate floor.”

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Is Your Vocabulary Commodious Enough To “Save the Words”?

By Patrick Henry on July 20th, 2010 - 1 Comment

A friend who dropped a chunk of my writing into IWriteLike tells me that the answer is H.G. Wells (1866-1946). The good news is that I correspond stylistically with an author of the 20th century—I wasn’t sure that I was this far along on the timeline of the English language. The fantastic news is that the answer wasn’t Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873), poet, playwright, novelist, and inspirer of the famous Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest.

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BoSacks Speaks Out: Declining Ad Pages

By BoSacks on July 19th, 2010 - 2 Comments

There was a fascinating article written by Lucia Moses a few days ago, titled Hearst Launches Pro-Magazine Readership Campaign, and it is filled with important informational magazine tidbits.

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Agfa Buys Pitman

By Howie Fenton on July 19th, 2010 - 5 Comments

Agfa Graphics announced last week that it signed an agreement to purchase the assets of Pitman, one of the few remaining independent dealers of equipment including prepress, inkjet, pressroom and packaging printing products. This was not a total surprise as speculation of a Pitman sale grew a few weeks ago after Kodak announced it would cut distribution ties with the company, which had been its largest U.S. reseller of prepress products since 2007.

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WeWriteLike

By Richard Romano on July 18th, 2010 - 1 Comment

This weekend, I came across a story about a new popular Web site called I Write Like, which claims that, via some copied-and-pasted text, it can determine which famous author you write like. I’m skeptical about these things, especially when reading passages like: The site’s traffic has soared in recent days and its arrival has…

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