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Hakuna matata
In: Business
18 Sep 2009
I really admire how Hyundai made a killing in the US market mostly through clever marketing techniques. Offer a buyback option without impact on credit score to car buyers who are to lose jobs after the purchase during the [...]
Details. Details. Details. Can’t emphasize this enough. A few of my acquaintances who have just recently graduated are wondering why getting a job suddenly became so tough compared to how graduates from last year had it. Well, for one, the global economy is really shot. Most multinationals (the biggest employers in the country) have frozen [...]
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- Tags: Business, Jobs, Work
Bro Coding
In: Business| Entertainment
28 Jun 2009Just finished reading The Bro Code by “Barney Stinson” and what a fun read that was. Too bad, most of the provisions doesn’t really apply to my current lifestyle since, as far as predicaments go, I’m more of a Marshall (sans the law thing and the height) than a Ted or Barney.
But as far [...]
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- Tags: Books, The Bro Code
What is in it for me?
21 Jun 2009As far as organizational communication goes, this is one question that many a communicator should always take into account. Place oneself into the target audience’s shoes and ask, “What’s in it for me?”
Whenever I teach business communication, the part on which I give most emphasis always is communication planning and audience analysis. The problem [...]
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- Tags: Business, Communication, Organization, Writing
What is the business case for Globelines P2P throttling?
In: Business| Technology
17 May 2009Globelines Broadband subscribers are really pissed off. Many of them are threatening to jump ship and not at all threatened by the lock-in clause. If only class action lawsuits aren’t that foreign in this country, I’m pretty sure that Innove/Globelines would be facing one right now.
Rumor has it that Globelines will be making a [...]
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- Tags: Broadband, Cap, Globelines, Internet, P2P, Peer-to-Peer, Throttling
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Hi! I'm Alex, a 20-something blogger writing about the discourses of social media. Once in a while I still let slip posts about the mundane, the asinine, and the trivial. Feel free to contact me.
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- j: I pay about $25/month here in the U.S. for a 9MB broadband connection. Not sure what the current rat [...]
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