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Watch the conclusion to "The Pitch Meeting"

• Author: Adam Gartenberg
• June 27, 2008
• Category:  db2  video  youtube 

The conclusion to "The Pitch Meeting" video series is now available on YouTube.  See how it all comes together!



And if you haven't seen the first two videos yet, you can find them in the right column of my blog.

Enjoy!

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Welcome John DelPizzo, new Sametime Offering Manager

• Author: Adam Gartenberg
• June 26, 2008
• Category:  Sametime 

I'd like to ask everyone to join me in officially welcoming John DelPizzo to the role of Lotus Sametime Offering Manager.  As he's showing already, he far exceeds my creativity in blog post titles ("Hmm. New teeth.... that's weird."), and something tells me he'll have no problem at all fitting in to the Lotus community.

As he's also based here in RTP, I've had the chance to meet with John several times and have gotten to know him a bit, and I feel more than comfortable that I leave Sametime and our UC² strategy in very capable hands.  He's already been asking the hard questions ("So exactly why are you doing things this way?") and coming up with good suggestions, and that's been really exciting to see.  

After four years under largely the same management, it's always good to get in some fresh blood with a new perspective and creative ideas, and I can't wait to see what John and everyone else on the Sametime team come up with.

John, it's all yours!

Link:
The Sametime Blog:  Hmm. New teeth.... that's weird.

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Lazy marketers vs. great marketers

• Author: Adam Gartenberg
• June 26, 2008
• Category:  Marketing 

"All lazy marketers can do is buy ads or spam people.  
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Great marketers create bands of brothers, tribes of people who wish each other well and want to belong. "

Go read Seth Godin's post on the five easy pieces of marketing.  Now.

(PS - First up on his list?  Data.  I think that's pretty important, too.)

Link:
Seth Godin:  Five Easy Pieces

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This is why I’m not using Yahoo! Mail anymore

• Author: Adam Gartenberg
• June 24, 2008
• Category:  Miscellaneous 

To be fair, usually my bulk mail is in the high thousands, too... Yahoo must have emptied it for me this morning.  The contrast, though, was too stark not to share.  I'm still getting 50-100 junk messages a day in my inbox.

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Summer

• Author: Adam Gartenberg
• June 20, 2008
• Category:  Miscellaneous 

Mr. Zuckerman had the best swing in the county.  It was a single long piece of heavy rope tied to the beam over the north doorway.  At the bottom end of the rope was a fat knot to sit on.  It was arranged so that you could swing without being pushed.  You climbed a ladder to the hayloft.  Then, holding the rope, you stood at the edge and looked down, and were scared and dizzy.  Then you straddled the knot, so that it acted as a seat.  Then you got up all your nerve, too a deep breath, and jumped.  For a second you seemed to be falling to the barn floor far below, but then suddenly the rope would begin to catch you, and you would sail through the barn door going a mile a minute, with the wind whistling in your eyes and ears and hair.  Then you would zoom upward into the sky, and look up at the clouds, and the rope would twist and you would twist and turn with the rope.  Then you would drop down, down, down out of the sky and come sailing back into the barn almost into the hayloft, then sail out again (not quite so far this time), then in again (not quite so high), then out again, then in again, then out, then in; and then you'd jump off and fall down and let somebody else try it.

Mothers for miles around worried about Zuckerman's swing. They feared some child would fall off.  But no child ever did.  Children almost always hang onto things tighter than their parents think they will.

-- E. B. White