Word: connections
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Nokia has recently tapped into that trend to build on its brand. At its flagship store in Moscow, customers can use display phones to send images and messages and, eventually, to connect with people globally through its mobile gaming network. As more flagships open around the world, shoppers will be able to join a live gaming community by directly competing against scores posted by players at other stores. "Learn to get close to your consumer; it's going to keep you alive," says Cliff Crosbie, director of global retail and trade marketing for Nokia...
...voter and consumer needs mostly what Ted Danson and his cheerful barfly compatriots desired—that “sometimes you want to go/ where everybody knows your name.”In “Applebee’s America: How Successful Political Business, and Religious Leaders Connect with the New American Community,” Fournier and political strategists Douglas B. Sosnik and Matthew J. Dowd guide aspiring politicians and business owners on how to market their platform or product in the twenty-first century. The key to winning the hearts and minds of Americans, whether selling...
...season highlights on iTunes. The theatrically minded CEO, usually tight-lipped about his next big thing, even teased at a product that will launch in January, code-named iTV. As eagerly anticipated as the movie-download store itself, the iTV looks like a Mac mini, and is intended to connect to your TV set and connect wirelessly to computers to retrieve video and audio content. Other products like this have been on the market for years, but industry watchers think Apple has the charm and design savvy to sell "media servers" to a mainstream audience...
...only connection I felt to Irwin was that we were both fathers and husbands. So, like many people, I first thought about his wife Terri, daughter Bindi and son Bob. Irwin was foremost a family man. His working life-or that part of it open to public view-was enmeshed with kin, three generations of the clan riding in the Team Irwin prime mover, sharing the same passions and one another's company. But the genuine shock and sadness of parents and kids as the news spread in my children's playground after school last Monday told me that Irwin...
...past. For example, Hong Kong's foundations tend to be family run, with little openness. "It's based on relationships," says Edith Terry, author of a 2005 report on the city's charity sector for the Asia Foundation. Organizations with promising ideas for philanthropic projects can't easily connect with the family foundations, she says. "In that environment, it's inevitable that some worthy ideas are going to be missed." But Terry points out that as younger family members begin to replace their elders in managerial roles, they may modernize foundations just as they modernize family businesses...