Mary Schmidt Marketing Troubleshooter

Really, I’d love to post something completely different and brilliant this Friday…but I used up most of my brain power working with clients this week. (Why do all deadlines and events somehow happen at once? Oy!) So, here are a few things from around the Web you may find entertaining, interesting and/or useful.

My guest post over at Lipsticking re marketing by women. “Guerrilla Marketing or Just Monkeying Around?” (With a tip of the blog bowler to Mary Ellen Merrigan for jogging my synapses on this topic.)

It’s getting a whole lot easier to be Green. Check out The Big Green Purse. (Via Yvonne’s post, Going Green.)

Hmmm…Did Anybody Ask If George Bush Was “White Enough?” Ann Michael on Gender, Race, and the U.S. Presidency
…And, do you get the urge to write everyone in Washington just to say, “OH GROW UP!”? I certainly do.

Wow! Really? I’m Shocked! Rude People, Not Tech, Cause Bad Manners. (From Wired.)

You Mean Greed Isn’t Good For Business? Charles H. Green, Trusted Advisor, The Cancer of Short-Term Thinking. A short snippet:

Western capitalism is fighting a form of business cancer. And the most virulent form of it is short-termism…Some examples - the beliefs that:
• greed is good (Hollywood simplification)
• individual pursuit of selfish aims yields public good (mis-translated Adam Smith)
• pursuit of short-term corporate goals ends in long-term social success (what’s good for General Motors hasn’t been good for America for some time now).

…but is it really happening? (I’d say yes). Dawn Rivers Baker on micro-biz being the wave of the future. (And the future is here.)

The Death of PowerPoint? Google unveils Competitor. As much as I rag on PP, any presentation is only as good as the presenter and any tool is only as good as its user. So, will we be merrily googling/woogling the same ol’ crap? Let’s hope not. From the MIT blog post: “But will Google Docs, as its office suite is known, ultimately replace the Microsoft Office suite? That will depend in large part on its appeal in a corporate marketplace where Microsoft is currently king. It’ll be an uphill battle, but Google is making a fine start.”

That’s all, folks! Have a great weekend.

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Tags: Mary Schmidt, politics, Google, capitalism