Over the last several years the economy has taken an alarming toll on the community benefit sector. For many organizations and foundations income is down 20% to 40% and sometimes more. No business can contract that much without suffering tremendous pain. While the markets have shown signs of rebounding over the last several weeks, other [...]
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Posted in SPURspectives, Uncategorized, community, consumer behavior, consumer perception, customer engagement, customer interaction, follower, leader, marketing, parable of tribes, social marketing, social network, spur communications on Oct 22nd, 2009
Have you heard the snickers about the supposed new civility that’s emerged recently? It’s been in the headlines coming out of Washington referring to the ratcheted up rhetoric, accusations, and shouting. It’s been in the sports pages with coaches punching coaches and basketball teams fighting with football teams. It’s become a daily event on talk [...]
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The Article: U.S. Rescue Fund Is Likely to Foster Bank Takeovers
A recent flurry of posts on a banking blog that I watch raised some interesting questions for me regarding ‘the bailout’, ‘financial assistance plan,’ or whatever you want to call it today. The chatter centered on the notion that the money coming from the bailout [...]
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