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Tim Peter for Marketing

I talked to someone who has both a vision as well as an impressive track record for marketing.  Tim Peter (www.timpeter.com) describes his services on his website as "proven solutions to improve your e-commerce results and your Internet marketing". I came across his...

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The Impact of “Pulse”

"Information from the Pulse will become part of models that are dynamically simulating and forecasting businesses and the consequences of management decisions ... it will have at least the following four types of impact:" "Decisions based on responses to macro-trends...

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Duct Tape Marketing Interview/Podcast

The people at Duct Tape Marketing interviewed me for my book Pulse: The New Science of Harnessing Internet Buzz to Track Threats and Opportunities. You can find a short summary and the podcast itself here...

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Amazon’s email blast for Pulse

Amazon just sent out its email blast for my next book Pulse: The New Science of Harnessing Internet Buzz to Track Threats and Opportunities. If you get those, you know what I mean (e.g., "If you like book X you will like this new book" etc.). With my previous books,...

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Pulse is hitting the shelves

My new book, Pulse: The New Science of Harnessing Internet Buzz to Track Threats and Opportunities, just came in the mail.  Amazon says it is available now and it should be on bookstore shelves in a day or two. This book seems to generate the most excitement of all of...

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The great IT risk measurement debate

CSO, 2/28/2011 Risk evaluation models in IT are broken, but we can do more with available data than you might think by correcting for known errors in risk perception. Those are a few of the conclusions Alex Hutton and Doug Hubbard came to in their dissection of risk...

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The Zurich Risk Management Paper

Back in September of 2010, I had the honor of speaking at the Zurich annual Supply Chain Risk Management Conference in Lucerne, Switzerland.  As much fun as the event was, I was equally honored when they asked me to co-author their white paper on risk management. This...

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Pulse: The new book

My next book - Pulse: The New Science of Harnessing Internet Buzz to Track Threats and Opportunities - is on track to come out in April.  We are just going the edit process for the manuscript. This book is an expansion on a concept I mentioned in How to Measure...

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