Latest Charting the Waters entries

• AMC’s The Pitch May 9, 2012
  We are now three episodes into AMC’s The Pitch. When I first heard about this show I was skeptical. It seemed an obvious and poorly thought out ride on Mad Men’s coattails. After three episodes and seeing six agencies I have changed my tune. It’s a fun show and not too caught up in the reality TV model. It is not a show that kicks an agency off the island ea […]
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• Return to Form, and a New Form May 16, 2011
  I have been away for a while and that’s awful for business. I have been away doing some work on the political consulting I do, so it’s not all for naught. In any case, my head has been geared to politics and the wisdom is that business consultants do not cross the line into politics for fear of upsetting clients, potential and actual. That’s crap. The genera […]
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• Eric Butow & Kathleen Taylor. How to Succeed in Business Using LinkedIn (2009) April 26, 2011
  Eric Butow and Kathleen Taylor. How to Succeed in Business Using Linkedin:  Maximizing Connections and Capturing Opportunities on the World’s Number One Business Networking Site (2009) Oddly enough, almost every book about using social networking or modern marketing name drops Linkedin and explains that it is important but very few go into much detail.  Whil […]
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