Monthly Archives: December 2008

Dec30

Holiday Season Results

By Josh Greene | Published: December 30, 2008
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First off, many thanks to you if you participated in last week’s Shop.org and Forrester joint survey of holiday season results.  In all, 84 companies repsonded to our anonymous follow up survey of how topline sales fared this holiday season vs.  last. We were happy to see that, contrary to the prevailing rather gloomy impression [...]

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Dec30

Shop.org Scholarship fund

By Josh Greene | Published: December 30, 2008
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We recently put out a press release, announcing the tremendous success of CyberMonday.com, in raising over $400,000 for the Ray M. Greenly Scholarship Fund. We’re currently looking for universities that are interested in participating in the scholarship program. If your alma mater would be interested, have them visit the information page on the Shop.org Scholarship [...]

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Dec23

Dust Off Your Crystal Ball: 2009 E-commerce Predictions

By Adam Weinroth | Pluck | Published: December 23, 2008
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As we head out of 2008, we head into a year full of challenges and opportunities for e-commerce. Around the web we’ve seen various experts and consultancies compiling their own projections, such as Peter Kim’s Social Media Predictions Roundup, Jeremy Liew’s Consumer Internet Predictions and eMarketer’s Digital Marketing and Media Predictions. While these touch on [...]

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Dec18

Public policy news

By Josh Greene | Published: December 18, 2008
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Shop.org will be hosting a webinar on January 28th, How Washington Can Affect The Web – What you Don’t Know May Hurt You. Topics will range from comprehensive online privacy legislation that Congress may be considering to behavioral targeting. There’s certainly no shortage of public policy news this week. NY governor proposes tax on downloaded [...]

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Dec17

I’m on LinkedIn, Now What?

By Josh Greene | Published: December 17, 2008
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Jason Alba runs a popular career management site, JibberJobber.com.  He’s just out with the second version of his book, I’m on LinkedIn, Now What? and he graciously sent me a review copy. It’s very timely – you’ll notice that on the right side of the blog, we’ve added links to our LinkedIn and Facebook groups.  [...]

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