Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Potential Dunwoody Business Group

Would you be interested in joining?
A lot of Dunwoody residents work out of their home or work in one of the many local executive suites which is their home office away from home. I personally have serviced a lot of this group and recognized that these soho (small office/home office) folks have similar questions covering topics like computers, law, accounting, insurance etc but no community to interact with in the area to network and discuss like topics. I am in the process of starting a lunch-and-learn group that would meet periodically in Dunwoody to listen to a speaker who would discuss a topic specifically for this soho community. If you’d be interested in joining this group that would meet every 3 weeks or so for a casual yet valuable lunch, please let me know asap so I can start building a roster.

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Wednesday, June 13, 2007

DON’T BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU READ

Back in May 2007, an editor at PC World Magazine was fired because he wanted to publish a story that painted one of their advertisers in a bad light. Story here:

http://www.news.com/PC-World-editor-resigns-over-apparent-ad-pressure/2100-1030_3-6181075.html?

The point here is to never rely on one source for product reviews. Ask your friends, neighbors, your computer guy, etc. There was a similar story a few years ago with Amazon.Com. A program error caused the real names of the Amazon reviewers to be shown and what was revealed was that authors, using formerly hidden usernames, were reviewing their own books, awarding them 5 stars and skewing the ratings system.