David, the LiveWorld CFO, told me a story recently of calling tech support for a company. The tech support specialist introduced himself as “Tim” and politely asked how he could help. Of course, Tim had a very noticeable Indian accent so during a part of the conversation while they were waiting for the machine to [...]
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Sasha Strauss, Managing Director of Innovation Protocol a brand strategy consulting firm, makes a very compelling case for utilizing LinkedIn as a source of referrals. Referrals can be the lifeblood of a business and LinkedIn is the tool Sasha utilized [...]
Allow me to rant for a moment - and join the rant if you like. Marketing has run amok in our political process. As an immigrant from a socialist country, I take my "Americanism" very seriously. And as a marketing...
Is authenticity a natural state? Or is authenticity achieved as a result of living a long life filled with many experiences that define who we are? Do children grow out of being authentic or do adults cloak their authenticity to...
There are over eight hundred million passenger cars that travel on the streets and on the roads all round the world every day and these exclude the trucks and busses. There are about three hundred million passenger vehicles in the US alone. The population of cars is growing be 6.9% compared to the 1.8% [...]
“The Nordic King ” of mobile phones has launched a nine luxury jewelry, the Nokia 8800 Carbon Arts. It keeps the lines terminal design of previous models (8800 and 8800 Sapphire Arts Arts), only that this time the sapphires place was taken by the carbon and titanium, joined with a specific premium products. The insertions [...]
“The Nordic King ” of mobile phones has launched a nine luxury jewelry, the Nokia 8800 Carbon Arts. It keeps the lines terminal design of previous models (8800 and 8800 Sapphire Arts Arts), only that this time the sapphires place was taken by the carbon and titanium, joined with a specific premium products. The insertions [...]
Why did the American Advertising Federation launch the campaign “Advertising. The way great brands get to be great brands.” in 2001? Because advertising no longer works as well as it once did. Companies in consumer and business markets now pay...
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The age of the faceless corporation is over. In the new business era of the twenty first century, great brands and products must evoke a dynamic personality in order to attract passionate customers.
Although many organizations hide their personality behind layers of packaged messaging and advertising, social media guru and influencer Rohit Bhargava counters that [.
HashTab is a Windows shell extension which adds a tab called "File Hashes" to the Windows Explorer file properties.You may find that many download sites list the MD5 hash along with the download link which is used to verify the integrity and authenticity of that file. The HashTab makes it very simple for Windows users to check these hashes on any file on the system without using external tools.The
In Many instances you do not know whether the email address exists or not. You can use Emil Address Checker to check the authenticity of an email address.The checker works in real time and can detect whether an email box exists or not. Just enter the email address and enter the code provided in captcha and hit enter. In few seconds you will get to know whether the email address is a valid address or not. Alternatively you can use Sprika eVerify. eVerify does not actually send any messages to the email address to be validated, but only connects to the server to check whether the email address exists or not. The application is free for trial and it can be purchased for $39.95 only.Please share your views about this post.For more tips subscribe to my feeds
Fear of purchasing counterfeit artwork soon will be a thing of the past for many art collectors, thanks to digital technology from Prova Group, Inc.The company has signed a letter of understanding with Artfest International, Inc., which prints and sells limited-edition, signed and numbered fine art and photography. Under the agreement, Prova will provide Artfest with a patent-pending secure digital system that ensures signature authenticity and helps mitigate fraud."Fraud and counterfeiting are prevalent in the fine arts marketplace, and until now, art collectors had to rely on paper certificates and numbered stickers that assert a piece's authenticity," said Edward Vakser, chief executive officer for Artfest. "Unfortunately, paper and label documentation can be even easier to forge than t
Bert Stern, Marilyn MonroeHow to judge the authenticity of photographs? This is an important question for buyers of photographs at auction houses and galleries. David Rudd Cycleback is an art historian specializing in the issues of authenticity and has published an Online Guide as well as the book Judging the Authenticity of Photographs which is much more detailed. Cycleback explains the concepts of original prints, vintage prints, printed later, etc. and how to identify the different types of prints like albumen, chromogentic or gelatin silver prints. So the reader gets some basic information about the imaging processes and the history of photography. It's very important to use a microscope of 30X to 100X power to examine a photograph. Cycleback presents some examples e.g. how to identify
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Some days I think about to what end people will go to further themselves. Its absurd to see how far away from themselves they go in order to make others percieve them as something they totally are not. Yet we all do it to some degree. We all sacrifice our authenticity in order to "fit in". People don't like people that are too different than them.
Where does your level of
Ted Mininni wrote a great post, Just Say ‘No’ to Tobacco, about an upscale grocery store chain, Andronico, which announced it will stop selling tobacco products this week. For people living in Rochester, NY this has a familiar ring, Wegmans already announced in early January that it would stop selling tobacco on February 10.
Not [...]
Authenticity?Reality, Reliability and Access in Performance and Media11 April 2008Department of Film, Theatre & Television — University of ReadingSupported by the Standing Committee of University Drama Departments (SCUDD) and the Graduate School in Arts and Humanities, University of Reading.What do we really mean when we say something is authentic? How important are questions of authenticity to our engagement with media texts, performance and institutions? As a concept, authenticity remains imprecise despite its frequent association with many aspects of film, theatre, television and new media. JAM 2008, the sixth annual conference for postgraduates run by postgraduates at the Department of Film, Theatre and Television welcomes proposals that interrogate and put pressure on the idea of "authenticity' in film, theatre, television and new media.The following themes and sample issues are central but not exclusive:• Narrative - How important are issues of narrative status to b
Via TC, I discovered IBM released a report on how the they think the $550 billion global ad market might change in the coming years. The predictions look bleak for most ad agencies and traditional media gatekeepers, but good for niche publishers who have a solid stream of attention:
The “voice” delivering a message, along with [...]
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Authenticity and the Paradox of Power
To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.
- Oscar Wilde
Being forthright, or forthcoming, is an active form of truth-telling. This is what people mean when they speak of transparency—an active revealing of...
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17 West at the Berghoff17 West Adams StreetChicagoIL 60603http://www.theberghoff.com/http://www.berghoff.com/Where is it?From the entrance you’ll turn directly right into a waiting area. To go to the dining room and host you’ll head left. Don’t. Instead head right down the stairs to the basement. At the base of the stairs you turn back on yourself. Keep on going ahead and then right. The toilets are at the end.What’s it like?Opened in 1898 Berghoffs is a Chicago institution. Go look at the second website and you can get a full history. Famed for its German fare it closed early in 2006 when the third generation of Berghoffs decided to retire. Nevertheless, nothing seems to have changed to the place since 2001 when I last visited. The main dining hall still has the cavernous feel of any beer hall in Munchen, and has plenty of space for the big groups of people that pack in.Even better the place still offers good beer, sauerkraut and the other German food you’d expect. My choice
When I began writing and attempting to minister to others through my website and blogs, it was because of the leading of the Holy Spirit. I was led to share my life and my life experiences in a way that would glorify the Lord, and Him alone. I do this by being authentic and transparent in my writings. I share anything about myself, without fear of condemnation. It does not take courage on my part, because I have faith that the Lord has forgiven all my sins, and is shaping me into the person I am to become. He has also used my past to shape me into who I am today. I belong to the most wonderful church- Clovis Hills. Part of their philosophy is to live in Joyful Authenticity."Healthy things grow. They are fed, pruned, bear fruit and experience a harvest. If they don’t, they wither, shrink and eventually die. Our spiritual lives are no different. They don’t just grow on their own, they have to be nurtured, cared for and invested in.God desires to transform our lives into reflections o
I loved the comments that SeaRabbit and Wondering Coyote left on my last post. I loved them because they made me think and feel. When I started this blog, I was hoping to share my story, help other people feel less alone and less afraid. I never realized how much I would learn from blogging. I learn stuff not just upon reflection of what I write and through the therapeutic release of letting it
A London filmmaker has filed a $20 million lawsuit against The Andy Warhol Foundation in New York, saying it is part of a "deeply corrupt enterprise" regarding the authentication of the Pittsburgh-born artist's works. Read more: post-gazette.comPhoto Cred: news.agendainc
He himself said ‘By Him in Whose Hands my life is!I would love to attack and be martyred, then attack again and be martyred, then attack again and be martyred.’Those are the words of Osama Bin Laden in a short clip from a longer As Sahab video obtained by LauraMansfield.com. In the clip, 50 seconds long, Bin Laden says:The seal of the prophets and all messengers (reference to Prophet Mohammed), prayers and peace be upon him, wished this status. So be alert, be wise and think.What is this status that the best of mankind wished for himself? He wished to be a martyr. He wished upon himself this status. Happy is the one who was chosen by god as a martyr.The remainder of the video includes various clips showing jihadist fighters reading their final wills, as well as statements from new Al Qaeda in Afghanistan commander Abu Yazid.
Lady Tottington Smythe - Born FreeLady Tottington, many thanks for the material below. We think you are a little gem so far. Lisa Blakemore Brown may well have a soft space in her heart but I don't. Psychologists are in touch with emotions whereas I am more of a practical person - as ex doctor, I had to be. Old habits die hard. There is of course still a matter of a complaint you made to the GMC and your reasons for it. There are two ways of looking at this - either we fight down to the ground which is possible and if so you need to agree to accepting the pre-action on JR for the GMC as you are an interested party. The second way is for you to examine the reasons you made the complaint in the first place. My view of you is this - and I am going to publicly say this - there is no doubt you have had a lot to deal with in your life. The manner of my writings earlier this year was due to the fact that the material below could have been given to us sometime ago thereby avoiding substantia
In an age of commodified culture and globalization, does true authenticity even exist?
Authenticity. It’s the buzzword of the enlightened traveler. We seek the genuine experience, something unspoiled by commercialism or prior visitors; we seek the perfect interaction with the culture we’re visiting.
Maybe our fantasy is to be adopted by a tribe, to receive some kind of acknowledgment that we’re not just another camera-toting white-shoe wearing tourist. Maybe it’s to have a time travel moment, to visit a land seemingly unspoiled by progress.
Maybe we want to boldly go where no man has gone before. We are out of luck.
For some reason, writing about authenticity in travel has been flying across my radar lately. I read stories punctuated with introspective commentary about polluted cultures or an inability to leave our world behind.
I’m starting to think we are missing the point.
The Inescapable Us
We live in a small world. In a day and a half, we can be in the African bush
Quite a discussion is taking place on several blogs on the matter of branding and authenticity.
Starting with William Arruda on his excellent Personal Branding blog:
All successful branding is based in authenticity - that is - what's true and genuine and unique about you. Brands are uncovered, not fabricated. The myth that branding is about spin or packaging and image management needs to be replaced by the truth that "you can't be someone you are not.'
More on Bobby Lehew in Your Brand - Authenticity rules:
I think the field has been covered well, but to state (again) the obvious: branding is not about conveying something you are not but about revealing who you are.
Last, but not least on ThinkingSparks, excellent point raised by Pepita:
Authenticity isn't necessarily good. Nor does it mean good. I think of Al Qaeda, IRA, ETA, the mafia, street gangs etc. They would qualify as an authentic brand
After studying Transformational Leadership for a while, you may come to the conclusion that there are a lot of technical things to remember to do, and even then you might not get it right.
So what is the magical ingredient to leading that makes it work? Well first of all, you probably know by now [...]
