Month: March 2006
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L’Oreal snaps up British icon
Now this is an interesting business acquisition, announced today: High Street beauty products retailer Body Shop has agreed to be taken over by French cosmetics giant L’Oreal in a deal worth £652m. The offer of 300p a share from the…
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Communication measurement 101
I was reading some of the excellent commentaries posted in the new IABC Communication Commons series of blogs which launched last month. One gem in particular caught my attention – Connecting inputs to outcomes, a common-sense and concise view of…
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A mission for TypePad
If you use the TypePad hosted blog service, you’ll likely find TypePad Hacks extremely useful as a resource to figure out how to, well, hack TypePad. You’ll undoubtedly find the 40 ways TypePad could rock even harder very useful in…
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Dutch introduce controversial immigration test
New requirements came into force this week for some non-Dutch people who wish to live in The Netherlands. The big news is a new immigration test where would-be immigrants have to take a compulsory exam on what they know about…
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The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #120: March 16, 2006
Content summary: Debbie Weil’s new podcast; Rob Safuto’s new venture and blog; Eric Schwarzman interviews the Washington Post; corporate reputation report from Hill & Knowlton; Forrester Research on social computing; Heidi Miller and Apple’s customer service experience; The Guardian launches…