North Korea’s capital city of Pyongyang
It’s like a semi-abstract still life… minus the life part.
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Image by David Guttenfelder from The Independent:
Lost world: Scenes from North Korea’s closed society
Story to go with the pictures, by David McNeill…
Excerpt:
Rating Action
On Aug. 5, 2011, Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services lowered its long-term sovereign credit rating on the United States of America to ‘AA+’ from ‘AAA’.
The outlook on the long-term rating is negative. At the same time, Standard & Poor’s affirmed its ‘A-1+’ short-term rating on the U.S. In addition, Standard & Poor’s removed both ratings from CreditWatch, where they were placed on July 14, 2011, with negative implications.
The transfer and convertibility (T&C) assessment of the U.S.–our assessment of the likelihood of official interference in the ability of U.S.-based public- and private-sector issuers to secure foreign exchange for debt service–remains ‘AAA’.
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Ten basic things to remember about social media for business:
Use the comment function below to add to the list…
– courtesy Enterprise Management Association (EMA-I.org)
Here’s one to keep you up at night:
What percentage of your fans, friends and followers are real people?
Increasingly, corporations are turning to technology for automated social media solutions, some of which offer the ability to:
As an apparent corollary to Arthur C. Clarke’s Fourth Law, the tweet below prompts us to reconsider what assumptions we have made about our on-line connections:
“In a turbulent 140-character universe, any sufficiently advanced semantic algorithm is indistinguishable from the average human.” — @humblerock, 2010
– courtesy Enterprise Management Association (EMA-I.org)
Many business managers that I meet would seem to agree that:
Social media is a very promising but potentially risky marketing tool
It sounds so reasonable.
And it’s certainly an easy position to defend:
Politically, it’s a very safe bet.
It gives you the opportunity, after the unfolding of any significant social media event (good or bad), to point out that you were right all along… “See, I told you it was risky,” or conversely, “I’ve always said it had great potential.”
My problem with the proposed statement is not its wishy-washiness, but that it presupposes Sales & Marketing as the “owner” of a company’s social media strategy, when it could just as easily–and perhaps more fittingly–belong to Public Relations & Customer Service.
Agree or disagree?
– courtesy Enterprise Management Association (EMA-I.org)
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