The original LOLcats source, the founder of this web site lost his job. In diligently searching the web for his next option, he saw this photo that he thought was, well, just very funny. He built a web site around the photo and more like it. With over 200,000 daily hits a huge community participates, and new lines of jokes continue to…
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Propaganda 1882 – Gauchos
Fun Ads, But Will They Work? The quirky series of video ads for 1882 (Gauchos here), an herbal digestif in Argentina, is very entertaining and offbeat. Will they work though? Or will they suffer the fate of many Superbowl commercials, with people remembering the ads, but not what they’re for? (Source: http://www.youtube.com/)…
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Setting Expectations for Keeping Up With the Joneses
Setting Expectations for Keeping Up With the Joneses You know the old saying about lying with statistics? Well supress your amazement when reading here about organizations sometimes issuing press releases using genuine statistics to mislead and drive the profits of an industry segment, in this case those making money off of weddings. Mean, median, mode…who cares?…
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How many legs does this elephant have?
How many legs does this elephant have? Writing today about how we’ll invest so much into gathering data, but leave the presentation to chance. The reports I often see at clients are sort of like optical illusions. At first they seem normal, but the longer I look, the more I notice that something is wrong. You’ve…
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Office Tyrants
Office Tyrants Ever had to grovel for the most basic things at the office, just so work will get done? This Cubicle Culture article takes a look at the little things that can send productivity and morale into a tailspin. If more managers paid attention to the informal networks of power, think what we could do without…
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