Author: Rick Klau

A K-Log Pilot Recapby Rick KlauOriginally published: November 11, 2002Comments/questions: E-mail me To any who are interested, I thought I’d give an update on ourmonth-old pilot of a Radio-based k-log. (For more on k-logs generally, check out the archive of the K-Logs group at Yahoo. In short: it’s a network of weblogs throughout an organization…

Great article from MarketingProfs.com about the dangers of poorly thought out marketing campaigns: Surely marketing message disasters happen only to sad little mom and pops run by two guys and a German Shepherd selling plastic garden furniture to consumers living inside the Arctic Circle? Afraid not, folks. It can happen to anyone. Even you. Across…

“The job I am going on is about as desperate a venture as has ever been undertaken by any force in the world’s history.” – General George S. Patton, immediately prior to leading the Allied invasion of North Africa.On this day 60 years ago, Operation Torch began. There are some great resources online about this…

The Lawyer, the excellent UK legal pub, today released its 2002 rankings for the Top 100 firms in the UK. Some notable stats: Revenue for Top 100 firms up 10 percent to £8.48bMagic Circle firms (Allen & Overy, Clifford Chance, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Linklaters and Slaughter and May) accounted for 38 percent of the Top 100…

Very cool. Got my copies of the direct mail brochure the ABA put together for my book, The Lawyer’s Guide to Marketing on the Internet. Very well done, and they’re sending out many thousand copies of the brochure (how retro!). Ernie recently posted some nice comments about the book on his site, and apparently several reviews…

Strategy + Business: Best Business Books of 2002 This appears to be a great collection of books, separated by category and reviewed by the editors of Strategy + Business .

From Ross Mayfield’s blog: Mapping Trust and Other Social Networks. The seminal article I mentioned in my post on Trust Networks that lays out 3 networks (Trust, Advice, Communication) is Informal Networks: The Company Behind the Chart by David Krackhardt and Jeffery Hanson, HBR 1993.  Karen Stephenson lays out 6 networks which overlap with the original 3. …

John Ellis: “The coming Democratic purge will be helpful. Getting rid of Terry Mac and Gephardt and eventually Daschle would, in an ideal Democratic scenario, happen sooner rather than later. More important, 2002 ends the whole 2000-we-won-even-though-we-lost dementia. Last night, the country essentially ratified Bush’s victory in 2000. The upside of being completely out of…

Andrew Sullivan: “This was a vote for Bush, for prosecuting the war on terror, for the tax cut. More important, it was a vote against the hollow negativism, cowardice and mediocrity of the current Democratic Party. They have nothing to say; and that matters. Their predicament is deeper than this result suggests.”

William Saletan blogs the election in Slate: “Moaning isn’t enough. Whether through lack of resolve, lack of agreement, or lack of imagination, a party that can’t summarize its economic philosophy—and can’t connect that philosophy to the boom that occurred on its watch—is in for a long decade.”