"We created a protocol where brands can still be in charge of content they create. We treat the brands as the director, and we are the producer."
"It lets us mature those stories and participate as executive producers and equity shareholders in the platform."
-- Paul Speaker, president Time, Inc. Studios
re: Time's video production unit and the move toward print becoming multimedia
"You have a captive audience. People want to get through security as fast as they can and they want to get as close to the gate as they can. Then they tend to relax, ... come up for air and decide on something to eat and read."
-- Bobbi Passavanti, spokeswoman, The Paradies Shops Detroit Airport (manages CNBC and Times stores in Detroit Airport)
re: the opening of the first USAToday store in Detroit Airport terminal)
"Eventually, we're all going to have everyone else's shows. And who is going to have a better address to go to than TV.com?"
-- Les Moonves, Chief Executive Officer, CBS
When you think about it, it's a little bit like competitive Twittering.
-- MTV's digital team
re: BackChannel, MTV's microblogging-tv mashup
"Do we have a plan for the future, or are we just sort of reacting as things come at us?"
-- Tom Rosenstiel, director of the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism
"Part of the strategy is get people to stop thinking that we're a weekly magazine."
-- John Tyrangiel, managing editor of time.com
re: the strategy behind the Time.com web site redesign
"ABC News' Charlie Gibson landed the biggest get of this presidential cycle, but he didn't reap all the benefits on the Web. More people have watched clips of Gibson's interview on YouTube (2,821,305) than on ABCNews.com (600,000)."
-- Silicon Valley Insider story
“I’ve seen companies with too much revenue. Having too much money, too many resources, means you don’t have to work smart, so you work dumb. And then you lose your market position to smaller, hungrier competitors. Also, when you have too much cash and power, you tend to attract employees who are very good at organisational politics but who are really bad at everything else.”
-- Craig Newmark, founder, Craigslist
"So if you’re in the market for a dead moose, now you know where to look.”
-- Jim Buckmaster, Craigslist
"I treasure the magazine experience of, like, going into this little world that's been prepared for you by somebody else." It's not like the Web, where there's just this constant cacophony of noise."
-- David Granger, editor-in-chief, Esquire Magazine
“What you know is who you know.”
-- Herminia Ibarra, INSEAD Professor of Organisational Behaviour
There are two dimensions of strategic agility, namely strategic sensitivity – that is, the way in which an organization views the world and whether it is ‘open-minded’ and attentive enough to sense new opportunities and discontinuities – and secondly, ‘resource fluidity’ which relates to whether companies can redeploy resources rapidly enough to quickly exploit emerging opportunities in a complex and fast-changing environment.
--Fast Strategy: How strategic agility will help you stay ahead of the game
by Yves Doz and Mikko Kosenen
“Humour is a very good social lubricant. In many categories, humour can only play the role of breaking the ice. Further down, you’ve got to have an intense relationship to be able to get into [the customer’s] life … You can’t constantly keep cracking jokes and expect the customer to be humoured by you.”
-- Prasoon Joshi, chairman and regional executive creative director, Asia-Pacific, McCann World Group at the World Effie Festival 2008
"At my home, the living room is stationary. But on the road, my “room” may collide with yours."
Keefe Leung, Manager, Advanced Connectivity Technology Group, Chysler
referring to the launch of UConnect, a service that turns Chysler vehicles into Internet wireless hotspots.
"It is the virtual substitute for Bill Marriott visiting every hotel"
--Kathleen Matthews, Global Communications, Marriott International
Employees around the world make up about one-fifth of the blog's readership and they comment frequently.
Bill Marriott doesn't use computers. Instead, he dictates entries into a recorder
and a staff member transcribes and posts them. The audio is also on the
site, which averages about 6,000 visitors per week and has had more
than 600,000 total visitors since its inception in January 2007.
via Washington Post
"The traditional newspaper model doesn't exist anymore. "The next-generation media company is a company that facilitates transactions and helps buyers and sellers come together."
--Bob Bellack, President, digital media, classified and development, Times Media Group
referring to their launch of real estate auction site, ZetaBid
editorial comment: whooohoo - something I've been saying for 5 years! Celebrate - big media is learning the secret!
“What this proves is that the pipes still work. If you put on programming that’s compelling enough for the audience they’ll show up.”
--Jeff Zucker, President & CEO NBC Universal
regarding NBC viewership of the 2008 Olympics
"TV, for the most part, has been unmeasurable." "We're making TV as accountable as the Internet is."
--Keval Desai, Program Manager, Google TV Ads
“A lot of things are not things that you would put on a traditional Web site. If someone directed a desk officer to create an article, it would not be about how to order lunch. That might seem trivial — but getting food into the main State Department building is not an easy task.”
-- Eric M. Johnson, U.S. State Department, Office of eDiplomacy
regarding Diplopedia, the department's internal wiki
"Technology is just a tool to let you do what your are interested in."
--Bill Gates
in an interview with Donny Deutsch, The Big Idea, CNBC
