From this IEDC press release: Earlier this month the Wall Street Journal reported that Indiana has the largest percentage increase in jobs of any state in 2010 at 1.9 percent. The state’s private sector employment has grown by 2.1 percent this year, with a total gain of 47,900 jobs according to the U.S. Department of [...]
From the excellent MarketingCharts blog, a charts: It’s a bit hard to read, but of ad dollars spent on digital media, digital out-of-home (aka digital signage) makes up less than 1%. On the positive side, that means the playing field is wide open. And another chart in this series reveals that 100% of digital out-of-home [...]
Ok, so following up on yesterday’s post I’m going to start digging into US Patent 7,685,259, the very obvious software patent for a “Locally responsive kiosk signage from on-line source,” using M-CAM’s Doors software (some of which, coincidentally, I helped write, to pat my own back). The biggest way that these kind of crap patents [...]
From the IEDC release: ATLANTA (March 4, 2010) – Elkhart, Ind. was the top destination for new corporate investment in 2009 among metropolitan areas with populations less than 200,000, according to data tracked in Conway Data Inc.’s New Plant Database. … Governor’s Cup winners are selected based on the number of new corporate location projects [...]
A fascinating article over at 538: There is a common theme across the internet: US manufacturing is dead and it’s never coming back. Well, there’s a big problem with that analysis: it’s not true. In fact, as the chart above indicates, it’s actually false. Note that since 1960, the index of industrial production has risen [...]
Email signatures really have got out of hand. They started out as a nifty feature way back in the 90s where you could predefine signatures for your email messages so you wouldn’t have to copy and paste something standard every time you wrote an email. But they’re really out of hand. They’ve gotten so long, [...]
There’s a big campaign going on right now to “Move Your Money” from the huge national banks to local/regional banks, the logic being that the big guys caused the financial crisis and, if we take our money out off their balance sheets, they’ll be forced to change their ways. You’ll also, on average, get better [...]
Danny sent me this article, from AdAge: Indeed, all web ads pale when stacked up to TV and print, which can claim twice the favorability among consumers, according to Dynamic Logic’s Ad Reactions 2009 study. Among 2,000 consumers surveyed in August 2009, 22% expressed a positive attitude toward ads on social media, the same as [...]
From time to time in various fields, people proclaim the death of this or that because of technological change. The current favorites seem to be journalism and literacy/writing. Oh, woe is us. We are doomed, technology killed everything beautiful and wonderful in our lives. My career revolves around technology: I love pondering the dangers and [...]
According to this Nielsen study, yes, they do: According to a new consumer survey by the Nielsen research firm on “Awareness and Effectiveness of Digital Display Screens Installed In Grocery Stores,” digital out-of-home Media (DOOH) increases sales at the point of sale (POS). Four out of five product brands experienced significant increases of up to [...]
