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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 [...]
Relationship = Attention x Trust
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As I talk with many of you about the new mindset and business model for local information, you often say something like “There is just too much. How do I use my limited time on information that is truly meaningful to me?”
Blogs, tweets, links, flashes, facebook, myspace, linkedin – it all [...]
On the road, no time to rest
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Two weeks ago, I outlined the new mindset, tasks and organization necessary to create C3. The week following, our senior managers met, and determined that we needed to really work hard to make sure that at least the top couple dozen managers in our company deeply understand the issues, so that [...]
Information in the First Instance
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Being with Bill Densmore and the group he assembled at Missouri this week was a refreshing introduction to new people and ideas. We were gathered to create the “blueprint” for the Information Valet Project, which we tentatively described as:
A permission-based ecosystem assuring privacy that allows you, in a trustworthy way, to share personal [...]
New Mindset for New Game Highlights New Tasks Performed in New Organization Which Develops New Shared Mindset
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It really felt like a turning point when I read that thoughtful industry veteran Buzz Wurzer’s first item on his 16 Point Checklist for Newspaper Publishers was:
I would fire myself as Publisher and rehire myself as CEO, Local (Your Market) Information Utility
It was nice to see this coming from a respected [...]
