UPDATE (12/11/08): This active wish list is useful for seeing the limitations of Google Sites.
When Google ‘Sites’ launched earlier this year, I shrugged my shoulders.
Now I’m jumping up and down!
In just an hour or so, I’ve just created a project-management intranet using Sites, and I’m floored by how easy and useful it is!
I’ve created two [...]

Long-time readers will know I hate candy bowls at trade shows. I mean, really, are you that lazy?
I saw a lot of candy bowls last week. Even really pretty bowls were filled with, tops, $5 in candy. And to the guy with a bowl filled to the brim with peanuts … what the heck?
A star [...]

I’m at a show this week. Its a whole different world for a couple days.
Here’s a fun little ditty from Jason Stewart of DemandBlog about going to shows/events:

Events time is hereGiveaways and gearFun for allBut marketers callTheir hardest time of year…
I’ll have to think of my own verse later.

In an email discussion with a sister company about SEO, I was told that the Wikipedia page for our type of product was deleted.
Deleted. Gone. Wiped clean. Trashed.
I didn’t create the page. I didn’t contribute. There was no mention of my company or link. It wasn’t a very detailed or valuable page. But it is [...]

From a trade show I’ll be going to later this month:

“Dear Exhibitor
It has come to our attention that there is an organization based in Mexico that is claiming to be associated to our exhibition XXXX. We understand that they are selling advertisements to our exhibitors on the basis that they [...]

All trade shows, seminars, and conferences seem to go by acronyms.
How about a new one called TECAF?
TECAF is a conference put on by PHOTON, a solar industry trade publication.
“To put it less politely: If the above scenario plays out through 2012, one-third of annual global generating capacity additions will come from solar. The traditional electricity [...]

How sloppy and/or lazy can you get? ‘Giant Mass Email Document’ from ‘Do Not Reply’:

I’ve cropped the email, but it doesn’t say what they do at all.
He misspelled ‘machienery’, part of his company name.
He used his own email account, so likely will be tagged a spammer and none of his real clients will get his [...]

Life’s been in fast-forward for the last month or so, but I’m trying to slow it down a bit and recognize the objects flashing by.
Here’s three posts by fellow B2B bloggers worth checking out:
Difference between Marketing and Sales post by Troy Bingham surveys some Linked-in groups: “When do you contact your web leads?”
… In the [...]