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Back from Äänekoski
We’re back in Vantaa. Äänekoski was gorgeous. George and I commented over breakfast this AM that life travels at a quiet, relaxed pace in Finland. It’s an interesting contrast to the hustle and bustle in Los Angeles. We toured the company’s production facility (the anti-static jackets are very sharp looking!) and interviewed three employees. It [...]
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Impressions from the first day of GAP
George and I spent the day meeting with our GAP company executives and employees discussing our findings so far, strategizing about further research, and gaining a deeper understanding of the company’s history, strengths, weaknesses, and objectives. It’s all well and good to talk about the theoretical in class or strategize over HBS cases. It is [...]
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First morning in Finland
George and I landed in Helsinki yesterday after a relevantly uneventful flight (save for a mad cross-terminal dash at JFK). After a good night’s sleep and a full breakfast, we’re preparing to meet with our Global Access Program (GAP) company representatives at their headquarters in Vantaa, Finland. After a full day of interviews and discussions, [...]
Social Media Button Click-through Rates
As a followup to my earlier post, here’s an interesting bit from Pro Media Blog that Nick Dynice shared with me on the BarCampLA mailing list. Thanks, Nick! Here are the results on the effectiveness & popularity of some of the social bookmarking buttons on a couple of our websites: Social Bookmarking Buttons that are [...]
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One Day in Kanban Land
From http://blog.crisp.se/henrikkniberg/2009/06/26/1246053060000.html
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Best Practices and Techniques for Increasing Page Views
I’ve been exploring a variety of ways to increase page views and sharing activity on websites. Here are a few techniques that I’ve seen lately that I found interesting… what have you seen? A few seconds after a user watches a video on IGN, the page refreshes and brings the user to the next video. [...]
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Free Online Survey Software
As part of my research for school and work, I’ve made heavy use of various online survey applications. The most common survey programs that I’ve seen are Survey Monkey ($20/mo or $200/yr) and Zoomerang ($200-600/yr). UCLA Anderson makes heavy use of Qualtrics, which is an incredibly powerful application but costs somewhere on the order of [...]
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Cheat Neutral and Carbon Offsets
This is a clever approach to parodying carbon emission permits. While I generally endorse the idea of carbon emission permits, I think the folks at Cheat Neutral have an interesting perspective that a) additionality is not guaranteed, and b) “offseting” a transgression does not necessarily make it acceptable in the first place. Carbon offsets are “indulgences.” [...]
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Apple App Store Sales Numbers
From Bernard Chen and TechCrunch, an interesting summary about the economic implications of the Apple App Store for developers. For all of you App developers (Amy!), TechCrunch had a great article describing sales numbers for AppStore products. Of particular note: Across 96 developers who responded, the average app sold 100k copies over 261 days with [...]
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