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On-demand private jets nearing takeoff
On-demand private jets nearing takeoff
03/23/2005 05:25 PMIn the future, it will be easier to hop to a city 100 miles away, but
you're going to pay for the flight service.
I guess everything Marqui does is NOT OK
I guess everything Marqui does is NOT OK
12/31/2004 10:59 AMRobin Good tears them (or at least the folks who issued the SEO
white paper) a new one.....
And
Eric Rice agrees.....
:-)
Tee Hee Hee - and we're not firing them for saying so......
:-)
Blog.Marqui.com
Blog.Marqui.com
02/01/2005 08:41 PMAfter promising for almost two months - my good friends at Marqui
have finally put up their corporate blog. We've hired a "conversation
coordinator" to make sure that they reply to and listen to what people
are blogging about them - and they've even opened up a 'dabble mode' version
of the product - so people can play with it.
This Marqui program has taught me - that even when you design
something to perfectly leverage the blogosphere and push the envelope
- even the simplest of notions can go mis-understaood.
In the case of this Marqui program - the company missed the notion
that we were setting up a pipeline - explicitely for the purpose of
getting compelling stories and usage sceanrios out into our bloggers
blogs.
With a piepline established - not only the corporate message - but
success stories and on-going updates could be fed to our paid bloggers
- utilzing their intellect and feedback to spread the Marqui meme.
But instead the entire program - up until now - has been filled
with "talking about talking" - internal retrospective kind of
blabber - which is typcial blogosphere filler - but not what we were
hoping for.
But you can't blame our bloggers. They haven't really had anything
to write about. That pisses me off. I'm bummed that Marqui hasn't
come through with more compelling stories for our bloggers to blog
about.
Maybe this post will push them into finding those stories and
feeding them to us. We've gotten some press from our program -
but the idea was not to just get press - the idea is to close sales
and recruit developers. That's when we know this program has been
successful.
And we can't get there without folks being able to try out the
product and hear responses from Marqui's management. Well we can do
that now. So NOW we're ready to launch this program!
Marqui my first Impression
Marqui my first Impression
12/19/2004 03:42 PMJust like any good geek I like to dig right into a service or
software package to see what surprises it holds for me. Geeks usually
portray this type of behavior and we only go to the manual when
needed, if your lucky enough to have one. But some people are not as
technically blessed and many people either want or need to read the
manual before using a product.
So when I evaluate a product, I also evaluate the documentation and
look to see if the author has created examples of how functions are
intended to work.
As I reviewed the online demo of Marqui I quickly clicked through the
different tabs which contained functions that on initial inspection
looked to flow well and were laid out in a way that a typical computer
user would understand. A question did arise about a function in one of
the tabs, I loaded the online help file and was impressed. So often
today companies race to put a product together and skimp on the
documentation which is beyond aggravating when you have spent your
hard earned dollars on a advanced program or product. What I found on
the Marqui demo was a concise explanation of the tool and a real world
example on how to use it.
Wanting to test a theory, I had my wife take a look at the function
and had her read the help file. Folks she has been a stay at home mom
since we were married 10 years ago, but used to work at a major travel
firm in Japan and has not been around modern business software tools.
As she clicked through some of the other functions she mentioned it
would have been real nice to have this tools available when she was in
the workforce as it would have eliminated mounds of paper and
increased productivity.
Case in point, one of the functions in the console tab is called
Task Manager. This function is designed in such a way that a office
staffer can create a document that needs to be reviewed at several
levels before it can be approved for release to the general public.
The creator loads the document onto the content management system and
initiates a approval task to his superior. Upon initiation the
superior will get a e-mail that their is a task for him or her to act
on. Opening that task in e-mail will load the CMS Console allowing him
to review approve/disapprove the document and add notes. If further
review is needed by a superior the task can then be re-assigned to the
next level. This keeps the approval process flowing and allows for
quick changes to be made in order to get the document on the
street.
As I dig deeper into Marqui over the coming weeks I will definitely
refer back to the documentation. On a scale of 1-10 I think they have
scored about a 8 in there online documentation. I did notice a couple
of referral links that did not re-direct perfectly so I deducted a
couple of points for that. It is important for companies to insure
that all links in their online documentation take them to the intended
link. The only thing I could see that could use improvement in the
task manager section would be to develop automated routing rules for
standard documents.
Most organizations go to great lengths to develop approval chop
chains, most organizations use a folder with the document tucked
inside to route it through the chop chain which is time consuming and
wastefall of resources. Most approval chains are well established and
do not change from day to day so introducing a chop chain routing rule
in the task manager would be the icing on the cake. Or even being able
to create one on the fly.
You can get more information about Marqui at www.marqui.com and if you are
interested in becoming a developer for Marqui drop me a line at
geek@geeknewscentral.com as I have the direct line to people who count
at Marqui. I will ensure you get a call back. For those companies
sitting on the fence about a Content / Communications Management
System make sure you check back here often as I will be reviewing all
of the features of the Marqui CMS platform. [www.marqui.com]
The private stuff Test pilot ready to
become the world's first private
spaceman
The private stuff Test pilot ready to
become the world's first private
spaceman
06/21/2004 04:27 AMBBC Jun 21 2004 8:53AM GMT
Marqui CMS and Paid Blogging!
Marqui CMS and Paid Blogging!
04/14/2005 07:38 PMAs you all know I have been blogging for pay for Marqui for the past 4 months as that
gig gets ready to come to a close I want to talk about what my
feelings have been, and the feedback you all have provided.
First of all I really dug into the Marqui CMS seeing how easy or
hard the application was, and if you do a search on this site for
Marqui you can get me impressions. Next Marqui provided us with some
very good case studies on companies that were running Marqui. They
gave us access to what I assume were un-edited interviews. I covered a
wide range of subjects some positive and some negative.
One thing we have always done and always will do is disclose when
we are either being paid or have been provided a free software tool to
try. There is news just today on advertising and content becoming
blurred as their is a perception and I hope no truth to the fact that
some bloggers and newsletter creators have not been fully disclosing
when a financial relationship exist.
I continue to commend Marqui as they had their entire program open
for the world to see. All of you took interest in the articles and
also commended us for being up-front. My thoughts on the product
continues to evolve and I continue to hope that Marqui introduces some
blogging components to the application and make it priced in a way
that would attract very small companies like mine as I could use it in
a collaborative way and as a web publishing system.
They only complaint I have this round of the blogging for Marqui is
the lines of communications were not as good. Marqui took the program
over from the group that was managing it initially and have not really
said very much in the last 30 days. I do not understand why as they
were on quite a roll and had a great program, it seems this second
round has not had as much sizzle.
If I were a company that was paying people like me to blog I would
overload them with info, so that we would have a variety of angles to
evaluate and consider our story topic instead of me writing how they
should run their campaign.
Recently I had a fortune 500 company approach me, to write about a
new product they were introducing, they wanted to pay me to blog but
did not want me to disclose the fact I was getting paid. This would
have involved writing 4 articles over a 2 month period. If I had
agreed to do this, I could have paid for a dedicated server here for a
year. It was real tempting considering or recent growth, thus I am
consider other options to raise the $2000.00 a year that I am going
need to put in place a solution that will carry us for the next 3
years.
The offer was tempting but I rejected it almost immediately. I
tried to work with them on acceptable language but they would not
budge and I guess if they were afraid to say they were paying me I
really did not need them as a sponsors. Meanwhile I keep the deal I
have made with all of you to disclose when I have been provided cash
or freebies.
For those of you that have a small company and your webspaces and
inter department communications are in disorder I highly recommend
that you check out Marqui Content Management Systems. [Marqui]
Blogging and Discovering about Marqui
Blogging and Discovering about Marqui
12/30/2004 01:58 PMI've been waiting a bit to see what our bloggers thought about Marqui.
There have been a few stumbles (mainly my fault) but we're finally
looking like a real program now - so I can let you all know
preliminary results:
Lucas Gonze - at least tried to
try it out and is discovering that open source alternatives are
probably just as good. So I just gently remind Lucas that Marqui
ain't for open source wonks or even bloggers - it's for Mabel at the
H&R Block office in Winnepeg office to.....
Now I'm not saying Mabel ain't gonan use open source, but it's all
about the developers who build Mabel's software for her. It's THEM
who have to know the alternatives. Hopefully what they'll find is
that for the tradeoff of spending a little money (starting at $199 a
month) Marqui is pretty dam
convienient and simple - to build out large scale 'Communications
Management' solutions.
Eric Rice on the other hand - is
glad that Marqui is using Marqui - pointing to Janet Johnson's on-line brochure
case study. Eric may even
use it himself for a project.
Robin Good has probably the best written, most articulate, most persistent and idealistic posts of
them all and is keeping us all on our toes. This comes from our
one "professional" writer/blogger.
And Meryl Evans did an in-depth
analysis of the tool - check it out. That should give you a taste
of what Marqui is. And Jon Lebkowsky is pointing out
that Marqui is
trying to go beyond just text.
DL Byron points out how
M
arqui's SEO efforts point out clearly that they need to be doing
their OWN blogging - but we all knew that already - right?
Mitch Ratcliffe just kind of
acknowledges that he's part of the program, while defending the
integrity of it, the company and himself. Right on to Mitch - is all
I can say!
Nathan Weinberg has an honest assesment of where we are right now while
Richard Murray keeps trying to break things
and push the
envelope. Coolio! I was counting on that! Thanks Richard!
Jonathan Abad keeps cranking out posts
while Geek central thinks it's
as easy to use as using Microsoft Office.
While some - like Molly - just kind of do their
duty, others completely go off - like the head lemur.
I'd say I'm blown away by the quality of the blog posts so far, but
not surpirsed. I can't wait to see what the others will come up with.
At least Mr. Claus is
considering being a client.
Meanwhile Marqui is slowly getting it's act together. 2005 will
certainly be an interesting year!
Marqui bl0g makes it debut
Marqui bl0g makes it debut
01/03/2005 03:40 AMIt took awhile but Janet Johsnon has finally gotten Marqui to start
blogging - even if it's just her for now.
Eric Rice noticed immediately.
Well at least it's up - and it made it up by the end-of-the-year
demand that Roland Tanglao made!
Richard
MacManus is bascially just being lazy, (my fault) and I'd say
there's certainly unrest in Marqui blogger-land. I just wish Richard
would look beyond the blogging tools he's addicated to - and realize
that technology gets used by LOTS of people - not just bloggers.
Marqui is not FOR blogging, we're just hiring bloggers to blog
about it.
In general I'd say it's time for a "conversation coordinator" to
come to the rescue!
Can the Marqui CMS Platform make a small
company look big
Can the Marqui CMS Platform make a small
company look big
02/05/2005 10:16 PMI am a paid to blog about Marqui see the last paragraph for my
disclaimer!
I get phone calls from time to time from sales reps or customers
asking to speak to someone in sales and I say you are on the phones
with sales, the next call could ask for the CEO and I say he's
speaking. I am sure you all get the point that their are a great
number of small companies out including mine that are basically mom
and pop shops.
I have a friend who has a small company with 3 employees, he does
99% of his business on the Internet. He said when people call they
imagine they are calling a bigger company, with rent so high here in
Hawaii they are in fact working out his extended family room in his
home. He has accomplished this selling Hawaiian products via the
Internet. He attributes his success to a website that is very much up
to date and contains new content on a regular basis.
So I described in detail the Tools that Marqui has built into their CMS
product, and asked him if he is able to leverage anything he has built
into his current website infrastructure that will match what Marqui
has available today.
He said no and nervously laughed. I went on to talk about Marqui, he was intrigued and agreed
with my line of thinking that I have developed over the past week. My
thought was this, if I were opening a new business and wanted to
assure that my branding and office communications management would be
in place from Day 1 I would be a fool not to employ a CMS solution. I
have came to that conclusion by playing with their demonstration
site.
Looking back at some business ventures I have been involved with in
the past, I realized I would have slept better back then, knowing that
from the outside at least those new ventures would look like a
seasoned company.
Having worked with collaboration tools like Groove before, I
realize now that Groove may have been great for internal discussions
and decision making, but it sure would have been sweet to have had a
web component that Marqui has.
I originally thought Marqui was only for big companies and the more
I look at it, the more I think it may have more bang for the buck for
a small company than a big one. I would recommend if your a small
company that is getting smashed in the market place and you think it
is because your web site is not keeping up with technology changes,
then you need to talk to the folks I know at Marqui.
Feel free to e-mail me at geek@geeknewscentral.com
and I will get you hooked up with the people that count. [www.marqui.com]
As a disclaimer I am paid to blog about Marqui and have spent
considerable time digging into the features and procedures that it
utilized to manage content and the communications tools. As part of
our contract we are told we can write anything positive or negative
about the product. It has been my goal from day 1 to give you my
honest and fair assessment of the product.
Jennifer Lopez And Her "Private" Private
Life
Jennifer Lopez And Her "Private" Private
Life
03/23/2005 10:38 PM“Jennifer Lopez: No more ‘soap opera’ Singer and
actress wants to keep private life private” Celebrities. You
gotta love ‘em. “I don’t want to talk about anything
that is personal or private at all, because what’s the use?
You’re open with people, and then they try and make a soap opera
out of your life,” Lopez said in an interview with The
Associated Press, according to CNN.com….
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'Jennifer Lopez And Her “Private” Private Life'
The Price of Admission to the Marqui
Content Management System
The Price of Admission to the Marqui
Content Management System
01/05/2005 03:59 PMAs I have been traversing the Marqui Content/Communications
Management System as one of their paid to blog, webloggers my thought
process has continually drifted back to how effective would this tool
be for a small business. Hence the question in the interview
yesterday. My initial conclusion is that it would be very
effective.
My second thought was how much is it going to cost. I guess most
business owners would probably ask that question first. I like to be
able to buy a product and own it. I tend to shy away from re-occurring
cost it's easier for me to swallow a one time payment even if it is
going to be a big one, in that I know there will be few surprises down
the road.
Currently the Marqui CMS pricing is based around a subscription
model. Honestly I don't care for it. The tool is terrific but
will it increase my organizations productivity enough to support the
subscription fee. Hunting around the Marqui site I was unable to find
a pricing model, this has a tendency to make me wonder why. So as a
objective paid reviewer of their service I am going to suggest a
couple of things.
1. Put pricing on your website
2. If it is as I suspect structured on the features you implement
build a table with that pricing broken out.
3. Consider a one time flat rate purchase for the product.
4. Better yet have both models to fit the needs of all business
owners.
I realize this may not fit their current business model but from
the perspective of a small business owner I think it would help you
gain market share in areas that they are not currently penetrating.
[Marqui]
Marqui modifying the content was as easy
as using Microsoft Office
Marqui modifying the content was as easy
as using Microsoft Office
12/27/2004 03:11 AMBeing a content type of guy I dug deeper into the Marqui CMS system by seeing how easy
or difficult it would be to change the content on the main page of the
demo website.
We all know that for any business to have a successful website it
is important to be able to quickly modify, and add content to the
site. Too many times I have came across a companies website that had
old content on it this gives a terrible first impression.
So my thought process was this. If I am a business owner and I am
using the Marqui Communications
Management System how fast could I update or change the layout on the
main page.
When I logger in it took me 3 clicks to bring up the main page
content editing window. In that window I could change the Page Title
and Subtitle. I could then delete the entire content of the page and
add new graphics and content with active html links using modern
editing tools within the editing window. The following editing
tools were available Bold, Italic, Underline, Right/Left/Center Align,
Create Bullets and List, decrease and increase the indent, insert
graphics, link html, insert a form, inset a table and a few other
options to choose font etc. Additionally if I wanted to change the
banner I could choose from a list of pre-designed banners and also add
Promotional links.
Something that I found in this package that I have never seen
in any package before was a way to add metadata that help search
engines index the page correctly. Many times even on this site I wish
I could have unique metadata for each article in our archive. This is
built into Marqui CMS and I was
impressed.
How many times have you made changes to a page and kicked yourself
real hard because you made a mistake. Well they have thought this
through, the system keeps a copy of previous revisions so that you can
roll back with the click of a button if a mistake is found.
Keeping with the idea that Marqui is used with various types of
companies the administrator can set permissions on who can modify what
pages. So if a mail clerk is angry and about to get fired he cannot go
into the management system and deface the main page. The system also
tracks who has given permissions to ownership of the page.
I think what blew me away the most was the ability to add menu
items on the fly and easily re-arrange the stacking of the menus.
Last week Marqui responded to a concern I had with their help
system and have assured me it is in the process of being updated and
even gave me a projected completion date. I will check back on that
date and see how they have progressed. I am extremely encouraged that
they are responding to my comments. I keep trying to find something
that I don't like and thus far I haven't but I am going to dig deeper
into the actual architect of the system next week and see what I can
find.
Disclaimer: I am paid by Marqui to Blog about
their product. I have vowed to all of you to give a honest opinion of
the product and will point out anything I find that does not meet my
expectations. I encourage companies looking to roll-out a Content
Management System to look at Marqui. I am your direct line to the
people that count at Marqui, and I can expedite your getting an
account to try the same features that I am reviewing. Developers need
to be aware that Marqui wants to work with you. So drop me a line and
I will hook you up. [Marqui]
Marqui wins 2005 InnoTech Innovation
Award
Marqui wins 2005 InnoTech Innovation
Award
03/17/2005 03:07 AMMarqui has chalked up another award by winning a 2005 InnoTech
Innovation Award. For the full details check out their press
release.
I am paid to blog about Marqui
and their Content/Communications Management System. Today concludes 3
months of paid blogging. I have chosen to continue for the next 2
months and will only be producing a few articles a month. My plan is
to try and make those reviews very significant. Marqui's paid to blog
program has been interesting in that the company stuck their neck out
on the line and allowed everyday bloggers to write what the felt about
the company and the product line.
I congratulate them for being forward thinking and I thank all of
you for the wonderful feedback on the program over the past 3
months.
Guns and jets
Guns and jets
03/08/2004 11:03 PMMy friend Brad, a jet pilot with heroic
flying skills, graciously agreed to help me with the
Commercial maneuvers and precision landings today. We hauled
N505WT out of its hangar and headed out to Worcester with the GPS
turned off and the gyro-stabilized compass covered up. Flying
along at 2500' it was actually a bit tough to pick out landmarks from
the VFR chart. After 10 landings we decided it was time for some
of the free cookies that they bake at the Worcester FBO (airplane gas
station) so we taxied into the ramp. The scene was one of utter
desolation. The main terminal building looked empty. The
last scheduled airline flights from Worcester ceased about one year
ago. The general aviation area contained a small collection of
cheap piston-powered airplanes (like mine!). At Bedford,
N505WT's home airport, there is always at least $300 million of
private jets on the ramp, waiting to take hard-working public
corporation executives from golf game to weekend house. The
woman behind the desk confirmed that not a single jet had landed at
Worcester all day.
As we were starting up N505WT a good-sized business jet was taxiing
in. A van drove up to meet the passengers at the side of the $10
million twin-turbojet-powered plane. "What luxury!" we
thought. "This is the only way to travel. They're probably
just back from a resort in Mexico." A couple of guys got out of
the van and walked around the plane wearing guns. Security for
someone important! The one passenger got out, a teenager wearing
a rather plain jumpsuit. Then we noticed that his legs were
chained together...
Yet another thing that America's richest and poorest citizens
share: traveling by private jet.
Oh yes, speaking of guns. A friend from the MIT Media
Lab sent around a home video yesterday. It seems that he
has put the filmmaking skills that he learned there to good use and
has made effective use of the Internet in distributing his
creation. Click right on the following link and then "Save
Target As" before playing from your own hard disk in a separate player
window (100 or 200% size is best): boyhood
dream.
Twenty years ago people talked about Arpanet/Internet leading to an
explosion in video creativity and distribution but it just wasn't
practical with the available bandwidth and percentage of consumers
hooked up. Today all the pieces are in place.
U.S. jets must have defibrillators
U.S. jets must have defibrillators
04/12/2004 03:41 AMUSA Today Apr 12 2004 7:43AM GMT
My backpack's got jets.
My backpack's got jets.
01/06/2005 12:16 PM
MC Chris is the pseudonym of
Chris Ward, comedian, writer, and aspiring rap star. Most popular as
the voice of Hesh on
Sealab 2021, his site is a great little
archive of silly (but good) songs, and improv comedy bits- some from
his UCB Theater days with now-
Daily Show reporter Ed Helms.
Jets must have defibs
Jets must have defibs
04/12/2004 03:41 AMUSA Today Apr 12 2004 7:35AM GMT
Wobbly sun causes plasma jets
Wobbly sun causes plasma jets
07/29/2004 11:38 AM127-year-old mystery solved
FAA: Jets must be altered (USATODAY.com)
FAA: Jets must be altered (USATODAY.com)
02/17/2004 08:52 AMUSATODAY.com - The federal government plans to announce Tuesday that
it will require airlines to install safety devices found to prevent
fuel-tank explosions like the one that blew up TWA Flight 800 just off
Long Island, several sources told USA TODAY.
Great bustard jets into Britain
Great bustard jets into Britain
08/03/2004 04:01 AMThe extinct great bustard is back in Britain after 30 chicks arrived
from the Russian steppes on Monday.
India moves for used Mirage jets
India moves for used Mirage jets
03/29/2005 02:01 PMIndia looks to buy 12 used Mirage jet fighters from Qatar following
the US move to sell F-16s to Pakistan.
Low-Flying Jets Investigated (Reuters)
Low-Flying Jets Investigated (Reuters)
05/18/2004 10:21 AMReuters - Germany's air traffic control agency
said Tuesday it was investigating complaints that Swiss fighter
jets violated airspace rules with a low-level aerobatic flight
over the center of Berlin's government quarter.
Jets force plane down near Rome
Jets force plane down near Rome
04/08/2005 12:31 PMTwo military jets intercept a plane flying over Rome where world
leaders gathered for the Pope's funeral.
Jets, Vikings See Playoffs Despite
Losses (AP)
Jets, Vikings See Playoffs Despite
Losses (AP)
01/03/2005 03:05 AMAP - The Rams, Vikings, Jets and Broncos squeezed into the NFL
playoffs and found familiar opponents waiting for them.
U.S. Jets Hit Insurgent Areas in
Fallujah (AP)
U.S. Jets Hit Insurgent Areas in
Fallujah (AP)
09/08/2004 08:29 PMAP - U.S. jets pounded insurgent positions in Fallujah for a second
straight day Wednesday, raising plumes of smoke but leaving no
extensive damage or signs of weakening the Sunni militants who have
steadily expanded their control of this city about 30 miles west of
Baghdad.
Ready for Supersonic Business Jets?
Ready for Supersonic Business Jets?
06/23/2004 09:06 AMFortune Jun 23 2004 1:15PM GMT
Israeli jets strike south Lebanon
Israeli jets strike south Lebanon
05/05/2004 07:54 PMIsraeli jets bomb southern Lebanon after a day of escalating tension
on the Israeli-Lebanese border.
U.S. to Sell Jets to Pakistan; India
Upset (AP)
U.S. to Sell Jets to Pakistan; India
Upset (AP)
03/25/2005 05:18 PMAP - The United States has agreed to sell about two dozen
sophisticated F-16 fighter planes to Pakistan, a diplomatically
sensitive move that rewards Pakistan for its help in fighting the war
on terror but has angered next-door rival India.
Jets Lose Cornerback Mickens to Torn ACL
(AP)
Jets Lose Cornerback Mickens to Torn ACL
(AP)
09/08/2004 11:04 AMAP - Jets cornerback Ray Mickens was placed on injured reserve
Wednesday with a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee,
while Terrell Buckley was signed to take his place.
USATODAY.com - NORAD had drills of jets
as weapons
USATODAY.com - NORAD had drills of jets
as weapons
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