Archive for the ‘business’ Category

Bags fly free, but fat people pay double

In the corporate fopah of the week, Southwest Airlines threw director Kevin Smith off an airplane for being too fat.

Smith, 39, originally purchased two tickets “as he’s been known to do when traveling Southwest,” the airline noted, but when he decided to fly standby on an earlier flight, only one seat remained. Although he had [...]

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Even Social Media companies don’t get Social Media

Lisa Barone on the Outspoken Media blog recently took Comcast to task for not using Social Media effectively in her article Twitter Won’t Make You Suck Less. Ask Comcast. She made some great points, and even though I didn’t agree 100% with Comcast’s failures, I absolutely agree that companies need to be active in [...]

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Facebook changes home page to Live Feed and News Feed. Users React.

Facebook has done it again. Made random unsolicited changes without notifying anyone. The home page, which previously showed a filter feed of all your friends’ posts and activities, has become the “News Feed” consisting only of those posts that Facebook thinks you might be interested in. Another link goes to the “Live [...]

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Wash Bar banning Greeley Residents

Not sure how I missed this one, but it’s a doozy. Washington’s Sports Bar and Grill – a long time favorite in downtown Fort Collins is banning Greeley residents on Saturday night. This is to solve their gang problems.
Here’s more from 5280

There’s always been tension between Greeley and Fort Collins, highlighting the worst [...]

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Is NEWS still a viable business model?

Colorado is an interesting place. It is a large state that consists of one major population center in the Denver-Aurora-Boulder area with about 3 million people. Another 1 million are scattered along the front range from Cheyene to Pueblo. The total front range estimates are 4.1million people, while the total state population [...]

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Stack Overflow and Joel Spolsky’s Fog Creek Software Management Training Program Reading List

I’m a big podcast fan. Originally, I was mostly into music podcasts like the amazing Coverville and the excellent Shifted Sound. Over the last few months I’ve been shifting to speculative fiction podcasts and postcast novels (podiobooks – in spite of my issues with the name). What I haven’t found, until recently, [...]

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Announcing Greeley Rewards

My company, e-Marketing Partner, is proud to announce the launch of Greeley Rewards.
Greeley Rewards is a site where local merchants can provide discounts and savings to local customers. Check it out!

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Dell charges for ‘Downgrade’

Dell Inc. will charge customers up to $50 for factory-installed Windows XP on some PCs after Wednesday, according to the company’s Web site.
The amazing floundering that is Microsoft Vista continues. A year and a half after it’s release, the public is still not convinced. Even though XP is scheduled to be pulled from [...]

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Walmart not interested in video

In what could end up being the corporate blunder of the year, Walmart has blown off the video company that has been taping it’s corporate meetings for the last 30 years.
Flagler Productions Inc., a small video production company, had been taping all of the goings on at Walmart for 30 years based on a verbal [...]

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SEO value of website directories

If you have viewed any of the links in the margins of this blog, you have probably noticed Greeley Search and Fort Collins Search.
Both of these sites were originally started as website directories for their specific locales. The motivation was to encourage technology use by local businesses and promote spending dollars in the local [...]

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