All Things Cahill

In honor of their release of the new album “Meanest Times” here are the darlings of Boston – Celtic punkers (but they’re from Southie) The Dropkick Murphys performing “State of Massachusetts” live.  Over the past couple years, since they were used in the soundtrack for the movie “The Departed”, they’ve really taken off, but hardcore fans have complained they’d left them behind.  This album, the band has stated, is a return to their roots. Dig Deeper: Official Website Buy “The…

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Thanks to Andy Dickinson for the link… Paul Bradshaw nails it on the head after debating on the Online Journalism Facebook Group… The strengths of the online medium are essentially twofold, and contradictory: speed, and depth. New media technologies are able to publish news faster than the previous kings of speed: TV and radio. Think mobile and email updates. Think moblogs. Think Twitter. At the same time, the unlimited space and time of the web, and its hypertextual and ‘pull’…

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I’ve got a lot going on today, but wanted to share a few links and provide a few quick comments. Kinetic Ideas on Marketing Through Social and Business Networks And some powerful traffic drivers that you may not have considered are the social networking sites. MySpace is not just for teenagers and Facebook is not just for college students. There are many celebrities, politicians, and business professionals who are leveraging the traffic that these types of sites can bring. I…

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A haunting piece in a classical jazz style we have not heard in years. This one’s in high rotation on my personal play lists… Dig Deeper Band Website: switchyardmusic.com GarageBand.com Page (has mp3 version for free download…) MySpace Page

I love the smell of disruptive technology in the morning…;-) Steve Rubel posted back on August 20 that the next disruptive development for large traffic sites will be the Cut and Paste Web…a place where our content truly becomes separated from our delivery means. A place where it is mixed, folded and mutilated by all manner of APIs (*application protocol interfaces), RSS Feeds, PageFlake-type clipping services, web services and all kinds of neat bits of content delivery/repurposing technology that we…

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For anyone that hasn’t really figured out social media yet, Lee White posted this nice quick Powerpoint deck on SlideShare… (note: I had wrongly attributed this – Lee White is the video creator! – sorry)

I was talking with Chris Murray yesterday and the subject of the woeful state of corporate Intranets came up. First, let’s think a little about what a Corporate Intranet should be…starting from this via Wikipedia: Briefly, an intranet can be understood as “a private version of the Internet,” or as a version of the Internet confined to an organization. The promise of the Intranet is that it will give us an easy means to communicate within our companies, using many…

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Steve Yelvington weighed in on the Google/AP deal the other day, and as usual, he’s got something good to add to the discussion. (We’ve previously discussed this here…) Local news websites are under tremendous pressure to build audience. Having generic AP content isn’t an effective way to do that, so they’re turning to blogging, photo galleries, social networking tools and databases of local information. At some point, wire copy is not merely of low value, it’s of negative value. Local…

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Those that have fallen stand tall within our hearts.

We’ve covered it here before…here and here and here…the business card is often the first tangible thing people see of your business, and they will make judgments about your business based on that. Jeff Cornwall of Belmont University and The Entrepreneurial Mind Blog covers this very subject today. His excellent list (go to his post here to read the full explanations…) – Never cut corners. – Pay attention to the little things. – Include all critical data, but none that…

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