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The News – 09/19/00

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Recommended Reading

I realize this is the only newsletter you’ll ever need, but if you want more in-depth detail, check out:

Stan Hustad’s The Coaching Connection

Management Signature's The Express Read

Will the last one onto the Web please turn on the light?

This reminds me of a hilarious Saturday Night Live mock commercial from last year. WARNING: the punchline is a bit rude, so scroll on if you’re sensitive.  Anyway, it’s a few years in the future, and all, and I mean all, of the good domain names are taken.  A backward bank finally decides to take the plunge, but has to use the only domain name left: www.clownpenis.fart.  

This scenario is trying to come true: There are still a few Fortune 1000 companies who have yet to put up a corporate site. The race is on to see who will be last...

Newfactor

Disintermediate this!

Remove the middlemen and sell things better, faster, cheaper, right? Not necessarily so, as this article discusses.

ClickZ

Getting Your Marketing Program off the Ground

Where would the biggest brands in the world, the Cokes, the Fords, the Nikes, be without relentless marketing?  But in the brave new world of clicks, it’s not all that apparent how to get started.

ClickZ

Here a click, there a click . . .

Incubators are on the skids, right?  Then why are the likes of IBM, Microsoft and Andersen backing Enfrastructure?

CNet

Briefly Noted

  • Shameless Self-Promotion Dept.:StratVantage has launched a new service, CTOMentor™, designed to allow Chief Technology Officers and other technical leaders to get rid of the Guilt Stack, that pile of magazines you’ll get around to reading someday.

    CTOMentor is a subscription advisory service tailored to customers’ industry and personal information needs. Four times a year CTOMentor provides a four-hour briefing for subscribers and their staffs on the most important emerging technology trends that could affect their businesses. As part of the service, subscribers also get a weekly email newsletter, Just the Right Stuff™, containing links to the Top 10 Must Read articles needed to stay current. These and other CTOMentor services will let you Burn Your Inbox™.

    As part of its launch, CTOMentor is offering a two-part white paper on peer-to-peer technology: Peer-to-Peer Computing and Business Networks: More Than Meets the Ear. Part 1, What is P2P?, is available for free on the CTOMentor Web site. Part 2, How Are Businesses Using P2P?, is available for $50.
    CTOMentor


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Alert SNS Reader Hall of Fame

This newsletter would be a good deal less interesting if it were not for the legions of Alert SNS Readers who send me ideas for columns. Below are those who have been honored by admission to the Alert SNS Reader Hall of Fame.

Alert SNS Reader (tally)
Roger Hamm (14)

Larry Kuhn (13)

Andrew Hargreave (12)

David Dabbs (11)

Bill Lehnertz (9)
Andy Stevko (5)

Nick Stanley (4)

Todd Mortenson (4)

Jeff Ellsworth (4)

Doug Laney (4)

Tim Plas (3)

John Gehring (3)

Mike Todey (3)

Ken Florian (3)

Seth Freeman (3)
Dr. Andrew Odlyzko (2)

John Skach (2)

Dean Cowdery (2)

Jacob Jaffe (2)

Peter Ellsworth

(2)
Pete Simpson

Jacqueline Miller

Eric Strauss

Valerie Janda

Steve Harr

Marv Vikla

Bob Burkhart

Dave Harkins

Deb Ellsworth

Nick Caffarra

Claudia Swan

Frank Siegler
Patty Kolbo
Robert Koerner


About The Author

During his 21 year IT career, Mike Ellsworth has pushed the technology envelope time and again. While at ACNielsen, Ellsworth helped set Dun & Bradstreet's Internet strategy and developed the vision that resulted in the consumer packaged goods industry's first Web application in early 1995.

Also at ACNielsen, Ellsworth established the company's eCommerce infrastructure, developed the first company Web site and intranet, and created its first Web-based online decision support application. As VP, Strategic Planning for Internet start-up B2BXchange, Ellsworth helped chart the course for this ambitious B2B portal.

Now an independent emerging technology consultant with StratVantage, and founder of wireless Internet hotspot company, The WiMAX Guys, Ellsworth helps companies make better technology decisions about fast-moving technologies such as wireless, mobile computing, eBusiness, and security. He also runs permission-based email campaigns, and writes online newsletters and technology white papers.

Mike Ellsworth can help advise and inform your company's strategy, separating the technologies that are ready from the expensive adventures that could sap your bottom line. Together you can craft a plan that effectively leverages emerging technologies to give your company a sustainable competitive advantage.

Call or email now and mention this newsletter to get a free one hour initial consultation.

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Can’t Get Enough of ME?

In the unlikely event that you want more of my opinions, I’ve started a Weblog. It’s the fashionable thing for pundits to do, and I’m doing it too. A Weblog is a datestamped collection of somewhat random thoughts and ideas assembled on a Web page. If you’d like to subject the world to your thoughts, as I do, you can create your own Weblog. You need to have a Web site that allows you FTP access, and the free software from www.blogger.com. This allows you to right click on a Web page and append your pithy thoughts to your Weblog.

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In Memoriam

Gerald M. Ellsworth

March 14, 1928 - July 5, 2003

In Memoriam

Jane C. Ellsworth

July 20, 1928 - July 20, 2003