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Following our robust conversations on Tuesday, I am looking forward to another set of employee annual review meetings today, at 9 AM and 3 PM CDT.
You can follow the live blog on CoverItLive at the site below:
5/6 Employee Meetings
The slides are the same as Tuesdays, and can be found at:
Gazette employee meetings 5.4.10 [...]
Employee Review Meetings – Tuesday, May 4, 2010
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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 [...]
NAAMXC10
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After three days with industry leaders, and sharp outside perspectives, I am more encouraged about our direction, and our ability to make progress quickly.
I started writing this blog two years ago after my first presentation at an NAA MediaXChange.
At that time, I was very concerned about our industry’s approach to the fundamental changes [...]
Branding a System of Information
Our company is blessed with very strong brands, including The Gazette and KCRG. As I mentioned here recently,
We have created deep emotional ties to our products, both within our company and within our communities. We need to begin to create emotional ties to an integrated local information ecosystem, and the multiple ways we can access [...]
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 [...]
C3 Employee Live Blogs
We will be discussing the state of the company and the implications of the changing community information environment outlined in my recent post C3 with interested employees over the next two days. In the spirit of transparency and maximum participation, please join us for a live blog of at least two of the upcoming [...]
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 [...]
Reflections after #MTS at Google
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I have been back from the Media and Technology Summit (#mts on Twitter) for 10 days. The reentry back into work and an early Winter in Iowa has been harder than usual. Some of that is due to the pace of play in October, coupled with some strong personal challenges for [...]
Media Technology Summit by UC Berkeley at Google
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Dean Neil Henry, Adjunct Professor Alan Mutter (@newsosaur on Twitter) and the faculty and staff of the University of California at Berkeley have arranged a very interesting group of presenters and participants which are meeting at the Google headquarters in Mountain View California starting at 8:30 AM PDT September 30th and continuing on [...]
Focus on Essential New Tasks
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As business models change, those who pursued the old model are often portrayed as stupid or evil. Creating a new model is very hard work.
Our C3 work is all about exploring, and creating, new models. Many in our industry seem to be stuck on erecting walls around the old model. As I noted [...]
