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Emerce Eday 2008: Brian Kalma
Brian reveiled the secret behind Zappos' success (one billion dollar revenue): extreme customer centric, open, loyal and web 2.0: twitter, blogs, internet tv. Motto: happy customers are your ambassadors.
Slideshow of his presentation:
http://www.slideshare.net/Emerce/emerce-eday-2008-brian-kalma-zappos-presentation/
Get an impression of Emerce Eday 2008 here at Flickr:
http://flickr.com/photos/emerce/sets/72157607371590174/
The after party eNight at club Thalia Lounge in Rotterdam afterwards is seen here on Flickr:
http://flickr.com/photos/emerce/sets/72157607607597455/
Length: 2313
Rating: 0.00 (0 ratings)
Tags: zappos emerce eday rotterdam emerceeday shoes ecommerce shop store billion miljard omzet klantenservice service
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Mickey Kaus on Palin, Blogs, Race and the 2008 Elections
Slate.com and Bloggingheads.tv contributor Mickey Kaus defends political blogging, discusses race as a factor in the 2008 Presidential elections, and examines rumors concerning Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin's baby.
FORA.tv coverage of the RNC: http://fora.tv/topic/republican_convention
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Mickey Kaus writes "Kausfiles" for Slate.com. He has written about public policy for Newsweek and several other publications, including the New Republic and the Washington Monthly, where he remains a contributing editor. Kaus published The End of Equality in 1992. The book was co-winner of the 1992 Washington Monthly Political Book Award. He is a co-founder and frequent contributor to Bloggingheads.tv. Kaus currently lives in Los Angeles.
Brian Gruber is Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of FORA.tv. Gruber has twenty years experience successfully building and marketing media enterprises. As the senior marketing officer for a range of respected media institutions, he has managed billion dollar revenue budgets and large and small marketing teams. As the first marketing director for C-SPAN, he built its affiliate sales and marketing organization, launching C-SPAN II with the largest subscriber base ever for a cable network at launch.
Length: 397
Rating: 4.00 (6 ratings)
Tags: blogs bloggingheads tv bloggers race racism obama sarah palin daughter baby scandal controversy vp vice president foratv
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Public Affairs with Jeff Berkowitz - Scott Harper
13th CD Dem. Nominee Scott Harper on the War, Gas Prices, Federal Bailouts of Big Lenders and the Mortgage Crisis, Taxes. Free Trade, Abortion, Guns and Same Sex Marriage.
Scott Harper (D-Lockport), the 13th Cong. District Democratic Nominee, discusses and debates domestic, foreign and cultural public policy issues with show host Jeff Berkowitz. Topics discussed include, among others, differences in approach to the energy issue and high gas prices by Presidential candidates Obama and McCain, the War in Iraq, high gas prices, alternative energy sources and expanded off shore drilling, the housing and mortgage "crisis," federal bailouts of "Big Lenders" like Countrywide, raising or lowering federal taxes, free and/or fair trade, the federal ban on partial birth abortion, the expired federal assault weapon ban and same sex marriage. Democratic challenger Scott Harper is taking on, in the fall general election, ten-year Republican incumbent, Judy Biggert (R-Hinsdale).
Scott Harper's background and experience:
Scott Harper, 13th Cong. District Democratic Nominee, grew up in Naperville and graduated from Naperville Central High School. He received his undergraduate degree from Wheaton College, an MBA from the University of Chicago and a Master's Degree from Oxford University in England.
Harper worked as an executive focusing on labor relations for an automotive company. He subsequently helped grow a firm, Closer Look, from a staff of two to about a forty person, five million dollar revenue office in media, design and marketing. Scott Harper sold his interest, recently, in Closer Look to focus full-time on the 13th Cong. District race.
Harper was a member of Old St. Patrick's church in Chicago, IL. He is divorced, with two grown up daughters: one at the Pratt Institute of Design and the other at Barnard/Columbia
To find out more about Scott Harper, please go to www.ScottHarperForCongress.Com
The 13th Cong. District:
About one half of the 13th CD is in DuPage county and that portion of the District includes the following or portions of the following cities: Naperville, Downers Grove, Hinsdale,Westmont, Woodridge, Lisle and Oak Brook. About thirty-five percent of the 13th CD is in Will County and that portion of the District includes the following or portions of the following cities: Aurora, Bolingbrook, Romeoville, Lockport, Joliet and Lemont. About fifteen per cent of the District is in Cook County and that portion of the District includes the following or portions of the following cities: Palos Hills, Lyons, Orland Park and Orland Hills.
The District includes Argonne National Laboratory and the Headquarters for Ace Hardware, Federal Signal, McDonald's and its Hamburger University.
Length: 1761
Rating: 4.00 (8 ratings)
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Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski on the 2008 Election
MSNBC's "Morning Joe" hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski discuss issues in the 2008 Presidential election with FORA.tv CEO Brian Gruber. This interview was recorded at the Republican National Convention on September 1, 2008.
FORA.tv coverage of the RNC: http://fora.tv/topic/republican_convention
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Former Congressman Joe Scarborough (R-Fla.) serves as host of "Morning Joe," weekdays from 6-9 a.m. ET on MSNBC. "Morning Joe" features interviews with top newsmakers and politicians and in-depth analysis of the day's biggest stories.
Previously, Scarborough hosted "Scarborough Country," in primetime on MSNBC.
Prior to the launch of "Scarborough Country" in April 2003, Scarborough was the publisher and editor of the award-winning newspaper "The Florida Sun."
Mika Brzezinski is a co-host of "Morning Joe" and an MSNBC anchor. Brzezinski also reports on "NBC Nightly News" and is an alternating news anchor for "Weekend Today."
Prior to joining MSNBC in January 2007, Brzezinski was an anchor of the "CBS Evening News Weekend Edition" and a CBS News correspondent who frequently contributed to "CBS Sunday Morning" and "60 Minutes." Brzezinski joined CBS News in 1997 as the anchor of "CBS News Up To The Minute," but took a short hiatus in 2000 to co-host MSNBC's weekday afternoon program "Homepage." In September 2001, she returned to CBS to become their principal "Ground Zero" reporter for the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Brian Gruber is Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of FORA.tv. Gruber has twenty years experience successfully building and marketing media enterprises. As the senior marketing officer for a range of respected media institutions, he has managed billion dollar revenue budgets and large and small marketing teams. As the first marketing director for C-SPAN, he built its affiliate sales and marketing organization, launching C-SPAN II with the largest subscriber base ever for a cable network at launch.
Length: 489
Rating: 4.50 (8 ratings)
Tags: john mccain barack obama president bush economy foreign policy race racism racial black african american campaign foratv
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A Fateful Harvest - part 5 - A heroin lab bust
The Taliban uses profits from opium as a source of revenue. Video of an anti-narcotic police bust of a heroin lab in Badakhshaan province.
Two AM in Badahkshan province and the anti-narcotics police begin their operation. With the morning light, they arrive in a remote village. They've lost time and -- possibly - the element of surprise ...
Amin: Where is your father?
Man: Responds
Colonel Amin Ali -- head of the provincial anti-drug force -- hurries with his team through the village ... There's still far to go and no certainty they'll find what they've come for... But the portable generator is a good sign.
And further along the ravine, they find it... A makeshift heroin processing lab ... with 600 kilograms of opium ready to be processed into 75 kilograms of heroin.
Wholesale value in neighboring Iran a quarter of a million dollars ...
This time, the lab workers were tipped off and escaped ... but not before converting the raw opium into a solid morphine base, -- the step before refining it further into heroin.
Amin:
The water is [collected] then brought in big bowls and Then is boiled in these barrels Then, when the water boils, the opium is put in.
The opium dissolves into a brown liquid and ultimately becomes the morphine base.
It can later be processed into various grades of heroin for smoking or injecting.
Given the remote location and difficulty of the terrain, Amin will have his men pour out the liquid here and destroy any remaining raw opium or bags of chemicals.
This is the eleventh lab Colonel Amin and his men have raided in Badakhshan during the last year.
But it's too soon to declare a victory in the province's drug war. Police reports claim many other primitive heroin labs in Badakhshan. They exist because the big money's in processing.
Barnet Rubin:
The UN office on drugs and crime, has estimated in recent years that the farmers are getting from 20-30% and that traffickers, corrupt officials, Taliban and other participants in it like people who make heroin out of opium are getting the remaining seventy or eighty percent '
Seventy to eighty percent of a yearly four billion dollar revenue stream is a staggering amount of money. The average per capita income in Afghanistan is under 400 dollars a year. Few legal jobs can match the money earned in the drug trade.
Length: 201
Rating: 4.70 (12 ratings)
Tags: opium afghanistan afghan heroin poppy drug trade taliban ill
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Eric Alterman - Does Print Journalism Have a Future?
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/03/26/Eric_Alterman_in_Conversation
Columnist and CUNY Professor of Journalism Eric Alterman speculates on the future of newspapers, in a conversation with FORA.tv founder and CEO Brian Gruber.
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Liberal columinst, blogger and author Eric Alterman sits down for an interview with FORA.tv Founder and CEO Brian Gruber to discuss his most recent book Why We're Liberals, the meaning of liberalism, and the state of politics in the United States.
Eric Alterman is distinguished professor of English at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York and professor of journalism at the Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, as well as the liberal columnist for The Nation and Altercation blogger for Media Matters for America(formerly at MSNBC.com) in Washington, DC, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress in Washington, DC, where he writes and edits the "Think Again" column, a senior fellow (since 1985) at the World Policy Institute at The New School in New York, and a history consultant to HBO Films.
Alterman is the author of seven books, including the national bestsellers, What Liberal Media? The Truth About Bias and the News (2003, 2004), and The Book on Bush: How George W. (Mis)leads America (with Mark Green, 2004).
The others include: When Presidents Lie: A History of Official Deception and its Consequences, (2004, 2005). His Sound & Fury: The Making of the Punditocracy (1992, 2000), won the 1992 George Orwell Award and his It Ain't No Sin to be Glad You're Alive: The Promise of Bruce Springsteen (1999, 2001), won the 1999 Stephen Crane Literary Award, and Who Speaks for America? Why Democracy Matters in Foreign Policy, (1998).
His newest book is Why We're Liberals: A Political Handbook to Post-Bush America, (2008).
Brian Gruber is Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of FORA.tv.
Gruber has twenty years experience successfully building and marketing media enterprises. As the senior marketing officer for a range of respected media institutions, he has managed billion dollar revenue budgets and large and small marketing teams. As the first marketing director for C-SPAN, he built its affiliate sales and marketing organization, launching C-SPAN II with the largest subscriber base ever for a cable network at launch. As director of marketing for News Corp's FOXTEL, he helped build the most successful cable television brand in Australia, going from number three to number one in cable subscriptions, brand equity and consumer awareness. As the head of marketing of the largest urban divisions of 3 top ten cable companies (MSO's), he turned flat or negative subscriber growth into substantial gains. And as president of g/media and Principals.com, he has helped more than twenty new media companies develop brands, marketing strategies, and consumer products.
He also acted as the media advisor and new media producer for the World Affairs Council of Northern California, the nation's most prolific presenter of quality world affairs events.
Length: 304
Rating: 5.00 (3 ratings)
Tags: web 2.0 net internet information media news newspapers journalists journalism story stories tv technology tech foratv
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Marilyn Monroe Sings Happy Birthday!
Marilyn is upset at NBC for pulling the plug on one of her favorite You-tubers and I hear she is going to be mounting a campaign to try to convince NBC to allow Ross The intern to go back to posting on YouTube.
Days before Ross Mathews (Ross The Intern) on NBC's The Tonight show was to celebrate his birthday with all his Youtube fans... NBC yanked him from Youtube.
Although his site is still up at...the web address listed below...NBC no longer allows him to post his daily video blog on the Youtube site.
http://www.youtube.com/user/rossthein...
NBC told Ross that they had just discovered that he was posting over at Youtube and that they only wanted him to post on NBC's social networking site...MyNBC.com...
Yeh...right...they just found out...sure... That is very hard to believe. It sounds more like they probably used Ross, Youtube and us, the fans to build a solid web community around Ross so that when it got to a large enough mass NBC could then export Ross' Youtube community over to NBC.
"Yeh...Why don't we just let Ross keep up building a solid web community over there at Youtube ...then we yank the plug and force all of Ross' fans to come over to www.MyNBC.com to sign up for our website so that we can make all the future advertising dollar revenue.
We let Ross, his fans and Youtube do all the work then we swoop in and highjack large numbers of eyeballs over to our NBC site. What a simple way to steal a large web audience from Youtube and we don't have to do all the ground work to create the community...we just swipe it...After all we are paying Ross a salary to blog and we don't have to fill him in with our plan. Besides he's too nice and truthful. He would never go for this plan if we told him up front. He wouldn't understand that business has to be cutthroat. what he doesn't know won't hurt him...at least not yet."
Well it hurts now. We could see that Ross' feelings were hurt when he had to try to explain to his fans who trust him why he could no longer post videos on youtube.
And NBC hurt us, Ross' Youtube fans. Many of us do not want to be signing up for a whole new social networking site hosted by NBC's parent company General Electric. And we don't like General Electric and NBC coming in and destroying our happy and loving community. That wasn't very nice nor ethical of you, NBC.
Very sneaky NBC...but That wasn't nice to do that to Ross and stick him in the middle of your manipulative plan.
Ross is a sweet trusting person and you should treat him with respect and be transparent with your plans with him upfront..instead you chose to use Ross, Youtube and Ross's Youtube web community to build up your own bank account.
NBC...shame on you.
Any one want to help her try to get Ross The Intern back on Youtube leave her friend, Sharon A. Fox a message. This is a serious and dangerous mission...but somebody's got to lead it. Ross is in jeopardy...and I'm not talking about the Merv Griffin game show.
In the meantime we all wish Ross The Intern a Happy and Wonderful Birthday!
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Written and performed by Sharon A. Fox
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Length: 99
Rating: 2.90 (19 ratings)
Tags: Ross The Intern Matthews Marilyn Monroe Tonight Show Happy Birthday Sharon A. Fox
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Marilyn Monroe Trys to Save Tonight Show's Ross The Intern!
Marilyn is upset at NBC for pulling the plug on one of her favorite You-tubers Ross Mathews (Ross The Intern of NBC's "The Tonight Show") ... and I hear she is going to be mounting a campaign to try to convince NBC to allow Ross The intern to go back to posting on YouTube.
Days before Ross Mathews (Ross The Intern) on NBC's The Tonight show was to celebrate his birthday with all his Youtube fans... NBC yanked him from Youtube.
Although his site is still up at...the web address listed below...NBC no longer allows him to post his daily video blog on the Youtube site.
http://www.youtube.com/user/rosstheintern
NBC told Ross that they had just discovered that he was posting over at Youtube and that they only wanted him to post on NBC's social networking site...MyNBC.com...
Yeh...right...they just found out...sure... That is very hard to believe. It sounds more like they probably used Ross, Youtube and us, the fans to build a solid web community around Ross so that when it got to a large enough mass NBC could then export Ross' Youtube community over to NBC.
"Yeh...Why don't we just let Ross keep up building a solid web community over there at Youtube ...then we yank the plug and force all of Ross' fans to come over to www.MyNBC.com to sign up for our website so that we can make all the future advertising dollar revenue.
We let Ross, his fans and Youtube do all the work then we swoop in and highjack large numbers of eyeballs over to our NBC site. What a simple way to steal a large web audience from Youtube and we don't have to do all the ground work to create the community...we just swipe it...After all we are paying Ross a salary to blog and we don't have to fill him in with our plan. Besides he's too nice and truthful. He would never go for this plan if we told him up front. He wouldn't understand that business has to be cutthroat. what he doesn't know won't hurt him...at least not yet."
Well it hurts now. We could see that Ross' feelings were hurt when he had to try to explain to his fans who trust him why he could no longer post videos on youtube.
And NBC hurt us, Ross' Youtube fans. Many of us do not want to be signing up for a whole new social networking site hosted by NBC's parent company General Electric. And we don't like General Electric and NBC coming in and destroying our happy and loving community. That wasn't very nice nor ethical of you, NBC.
Very sneaky NBC...but That wasn't nice to do that to Ross and stick him in the middle of your manipulative plan.
Ross is a sweet trusting person and you should treat him with respect and be transparent with your plans with him upfront..instead you chose to use Ross, Youtube and Ross's Youtube web community to build up your own bank account.
NBC...shame on you.
NBC...you should let Ross go free and allow him to return to posting his videos on Youtube.
And ,NBC, you should always be upfront and transparent when you make agreements with Ross or anyone else. Honesty is the best policy.
Ross' YouTube community of fans is heart broken that NBC has put a stop to his video posting on YouTube....and we would like to see him back at his Youtube home.
Any one want to help her try to get Ross The Intern back on Youtube leave her friend, Sharon A. Fox a message. This is a serious and dangerous mission...but somebody's got to lead it. Ross is in jeopardy...and I'm not talking about the Merv Griffin game show.
In the meantime we all wish Ross The Intern a Happy and Wonderful Birthday!
Have A Great New Year Ross (and Louise)!
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Big Shout Out Thank You to Nick Sklias www.youtube.com/NickSklias...for the Birthday balloons for the Ross the Intern Birthday party. You Are The Best!
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Written and performed by Sharon A. Fox
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Length: 363
Rating: 4.10 (14 ratings)
Tags: Marilyn Monroe The Tonight Show Ross Intern Diamonds Sharon A. Fox
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Arianna Huffington on the Success of the Huffington Post
Author, blogger and political commentator Arianna Huffington discusses the success of her blogging community website, the Huffington Post. This interview was recorded at the Republican National Convention on September 1, 2008.
FORA.tv coverage of the RNC: http://fora.tv/topic/republican_convention
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Arianna Huffington is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post, a nationally syndicated columnist, and author of twelve books. She is also co-host of "Left, Right & Center," public radio's popular political roundtable program.
In May 2005, she launched The Huffington Post, a news and blog site that has quickly become one of the most widely-read, linked to, and frequently-cited media brands on the Internet. In 2006, she was named to the Time 100, Time Magazine's list of the world's 100 most influential people.
Originally from Greece, she moved to England when she was 16 and graduated from Cambridge University with an M.A. in economics. At 21, she became president of the famed debating society, the Cambridge Union.
Brian Gruber is Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of FORA.tv. Gruber has twenty years experience successfully building and marketing media enterprises. As the senior marketing officer for a range of respected media institutions, he has managed billion dollar revenue budgets and large and small marketing teams. As the first marketing director for C-SPAN, he built its affiliate sales and marketing organization, launching C-SPAN II with the largest subscriber base ever for a cable network at launch.
Length: 127
Rating: 3.00 (2 ratings)
Tags: news media blogs blogging huffpo liberal left conservative right blog website commentary politics political foratv
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