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 out [...]

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 [...]

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 music.
Scott’s post [...]

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.  [...]

Following stark October results offline, online retailers have been wondering how everyone else fared in November.  Last week, Shop.org teamed up with Forrester Research to conduct a quick survey of online retailers** — the results are now in, and posted on the message boards.
While 2008 is certainly very different from recent years, all is not [...]