Gettysburg National Military Park draws 1.6million visitors a year, supporting 2653 full-time jobs, generating $52.2million in revenues locally, and contributing $17million in taxes.
Other Civil War sites are less famous and draw smaller crowds. Many are disappearing under urban development.
What makes the difference between success and oblivion?
Archive for June, 2008
A Little Marketing
Posted in Business, History, Marketing on June 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Online Video Use
Posted in Internet, Marketing, Technology on June 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Did you know: 1/3 of all young male web users view video online daily.
Almost 1/3 of all web users view video online a couple of times a week,[Burst Media survey]
Privacy Across Social Networks
Posted in Internet, Privacy on June 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Did you know that some social networks allow you to share settings with other sites? When you update your Myspace account, you can share the changes with Twitter, Yahoo, eBay and Photobucket.
Facebook has been blocking Google’s Friend Connect because it claims Google shares user information with 3rd parties. Google counter-claims that this is at the [...]
TV on Your Cel Phone
Posted in Internet, Marketing, Technology on June 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
53% of people surveyed by IBM would like to be able to watch TV on their mobile.
Google Health
Posted in Internet on June 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I am a huge fan of Google, but do you want to use Google Health? You now can store and access all your medical records online through your Google gmail account.
Google has partnered with the medical profession to import your records into your profile. That’s good insofar as it gives you access, which may make [...]
TV Commercial Costs
Posted in Uncategorized on June 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The average TV commercial costs $245,000 to produce. That includes shooting and post-production, but not air time.
Broadband in the USA
Posted in Internet on June 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The USA ranks 15 out of 30 in terms of bandwidth penetration and people pay more for it than they do in most countries. Think twice about launching Web 2.0 apps.
Someone Built a Dam on the Trickle-Down Effect
Posted in Uncategorized on June 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
According to StatsCan, our median income, after adjusting for inflation, was the same in 2004 as it was in 1982.
The figure is comparable to the USA where we also know that for the richest 1% of US citizens, real wealth increased 160% and for the top 0.1%, it rose 350%.
A History Lesson
Posted in Internet, tagged Internet on June 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s a history of the Internet. Just remember that the edge is about 5 years in front of most users. Some of this technology existed, but most of us couldn’t access it.
1965 Email between mainframes.
1965 The Arpanet. A limited web designed for file sharing.
1970 WYSIWYG web.
1973 TCP/IP protocals for file sharing
1980 Usenet. [...]
An Ethnography of the Workplace
Posted in Business on June 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I found an online pdf (31 pages, no short read) about the 4 generations currently in the workforce, their desires, expectations and how best to manage them. The document also contains a blueprint for a better workplace. It’s succinct and well-written. The analysis is believable.
The file is called Managing the Generation Mix 2007.
