SYNTHESiST Refines for Better Focus – Content – Experience – Reach 294.0

Fast changes in Google search and Facebook social graph technologies dictate continuous learning of new skills and techniques for SYNTHESiST. On top of these internal changes, I have put in place changes to refine its focus, content, experience and reach to better serve her community – a relentless challenge indeed. I am sharing on a [...]

The New York Times Truly Takes up Social Media 267.0

I was pleasantly surprised to see my good facebook friends, Atty. Luie Guia and Denis Du, on the front page, onscreen of my online New York Times in the box, Latest in My Network. It turns out that they have used the links button on New York Times online to recommend articles on Facebook. As [...]

Apple Growth Derives from Planned Product Obsolescence 222.0

As shown again by the IPhone 4, Apple’s growth strategy is just planned product obsolescence with a twist. In the olden days of three-to-five year product development cycles, planned product obsolescence, and therefore consumer upgrades, was driven by annual style changes. In the much shorter product cycles of recent years, Apple is the champion of [...]

SYNTHESiST Completes Migration to Magazine Theme 214.0

Fifteen months from its first post, SYNTHESiST completed the first phase of its migration to the Magazine theme. The migration supports many purposes. The foremost is to create a rich conversation within a community of like-minded people on the domain of innovation systems and change management for emerging markets. SYNTHESiST becomes a content management system [...]

SYNTHESiST Engages for a Makeover 210.0

To become more engaging, SYNTHESiST will have a makeover into a blog and website/CMS combo using StudioPress’ Magazine theme. (Note: Please be patient if our migration will create some access inconvenience in the next few days.) The Magazine theme is beautiful. It is also powerful. It has two navigation lines. One navigation line is for [...]

Pro-Gibo Post-Bayani Urinal by MMDA 194.0

Change management, at its most efficient, in an emerging market. The order of execution: Communications objective. Develop concept – change to green from fuchsia. Prototype and test. Plan, schedule and budget. Mobilize resources. Execute on a thousand toilets. Check quality. Turn-over. Can’t do quicker or better for this coming automated elections. Need I say more!

SYNTHESiST Continues to Improve Internet Visibility 192.0

Alexa rank is 494,714. SYNTHESiST is #2 on Page 1 in Google Search. Today, for the first time, SYNTHESiST broke above the 500,000 rank on Alexa from 8,600,000 when I enlisted ninety days ago. Google PageRank stays at 3/10 after thirteen months, 192 substantial posts and 6 pages on the Internet. Content still King. Blog [...]

Kindle for Mac is now FREE to Download 189.0

The best marketing response for Amazon against Apple iPad Amazon has done today exactly as I said in my January 29 post, Apple iPad Intrudes on Amazon Kindle e-Reader Space, one day after Apple launched its iPAd the best marketing response to Apple. Today, at 4:08 pm Manila time, I received an email for the [...]

SYNTHESiST gets Google Buzz Button 176.0

To enhance shareability and improve searchability As you can see, I just installed a Google Buzz This button at the top of each SYNTHESiST post. The button installs such “-abilities” on the blog that is so necessary to compete robustly for attention in the blogosphere. Again, I thank my internet marketing guru and friend, Raque [...]

Birdwatching – Innovative Eco Tourism Product for the Philippines 164.0

Tourism Secretary Ace Durano makes the country a birdwatching destination As part of a diversification strategy, creativity goes a long way to promote growth for the Philippines in a way that is hard for other countries to compete. Imagine birdwatching! For eco-tourism and just recently to support his diversification strategy, Sec Ace Durano also promoted [...]

Real Time Market Feedback through the Cloud 163.0

A Keyword cloud to tell the true story behind SYNTHESiST searches I have installed the Keyword cloud plugin designed by RomeLoft on the Sidebar at right. The plugin will accumulate and print in real time the specific keywords used by visitors from search engines in finding a post in SYNTHESiST. In effect it is a [...]

Spices as Antioxidants and Salt Replacers 162.0

McCormick innovates in marketing traditional spices In the consumer space, massive Mc Cormick who truthfully prides itself as the “global leader in the manufacture, marketing and distribution of spices, seasonings and flavors to the entire food industry” has always been very creative in marketing what are essentially commodities. McCormick passes the true test of market [...]

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