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We will be live blogging our employee review meetings at 10 AM and 2 PM on Tuesday, May 4. This will be the first time that we have live blogged an annual review meeting, following our annual board and shareholder meetings, which were held last week. You can follow live, and [...]
Year in Review and Work Plan
Last year at this time we were undertaking a major reorganization of the company — both to survive the most precipitous decline in revenue we had ever experienced and to position us for the speed and flexibility we need to thrive in the fast-changing local media world we are going to be experiencing for some [...]
Exploration to Execution
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When I started this blog, in April, 2008, all I knew was that we needed to explore new ways to fulfill our mission of being the “information provider of choice”. After 21 months of exploration and experimentation we have a plan that needs to be executed.
There are many nuances to this plan, but [...]
Level Set
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It has been over a month since the employee meetings, and we are learning much every day. As Mike Coleman, our Director of Technology likes to say: BLUF – Bottom Line Up Front – I am more convinced every day that we are on the right path, but we certainly don’t have the [...]
C3?
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We have our quarterly board and employee meetings this week. We are an ESOP company, owned by our original founding families (over 126 years in business), and the Employee Stock Ownership Trust. So everyone is interested.
The last time I made a formal report, we were having difficulty forecasting our sales, and we [...]
A year of learning – what are we doing?
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Summarizing a year of learning
When starting this blog, a little over a year ago, I knew we needed to learn the attributes and explore the ramifications of a new mindset. We will not succeed in the new relationship economy with a mindset developed by and for the industrial production economy. Openness, collaboration, transparency [...]
We are way behind
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When I made my presentation last week at the NAA’s MediaXChange, many commented that our C3 effort was way too far ahead of the newspaper industry.
In fact, we are too far behind in our C3 effort to be able to participate successfully in the relationship economy.
For the best overview of the intellectual framework, [...]
Powerful Communities
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As you know, I am a fan of Neil Perkin’s slide shows. As anyone in our company can attest, building a C3 – Complete Community Connection is challenging and disconcerting, particularly in this time of economic contraction. When pressed about the purpose of such an effort, I commented:
a bigger goal of C3 is [...]
Earlier View
Neil Perkin shared his thoughts on the future of media in this slide show seven months ago. I just saw it yesterday. I wish I had seen it last June. Very succinctly, he outlines the need for, and concepts behind, our efforts here at C3.
What do you think?
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Transparency and Engagement
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Starting the new year with new energy to make C3 happen. Why C3? While covered before, the essence is:
If each individual in the community has exactly the information they need, when and where they want it, and can develop stronger relationships with those in their defined communities, each of those communities will be [...]
