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Jack Yan: the Persuader Blog
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One of the web's pioneers on globalization, branding, the media and social responsibility.
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Surprises at GM and Chrysler this week
This has been a fascinating week not so much for me (the Mayor has always maintained to me that she would consider a fourth term, and Sir Robert Jones’s quip about being the corporate backer behind a mayoral candidate and council was on the cards f...
Google will frustrate plans to charge for news
We publishers had a very entertaining morning at Trentham Racecourse on Melbourne Cup Day Tuesday, organized by our printer, Format Print, and one of the presenters mentioned that if News Corp. wanted to begin charging for content, it would likely su...
Campaign graphics for Your Wellington
I blogged today on my free wifi ideas at Your Wellington and mentioned that there are campaign graphics to download. There’s a feature with the Mimbo theme we’re using at yourwellington.org where the images are automatically resized (it’s...
Notes from my Sunrise appearance
It was very enjoyable heading over to the TV3 Wellington studio for my spot on Sunrise last Thursday. It was the first time I mentioned my Wellington mayoral campaign on live network television, even if the rest of the segment was about getting...
Tourism Tech notes and slides up
I told the audience at my Tourism Tech keynote that my speech notes and slides would be online at the event’s site. I’ve had a few requests in the days after as they hadn’t been uploaded, which is totally forgiveable: if you knew that co-hosts ...
The US car industry is looking familiar
The largest car maker in the land was effectively nationalized. It then killed more brands and product lines, even ones that could have survived. Chrysler, hanging on to unloved mainstream sedans such as the Avenger, was in a deep crisis ...


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