Category Archives: Marketing
Taking a look back
Friday the 13th was the end of one journey and, in a week, the beginning of a new one. I wanted to share some thoughts on some insights gained from my time in the scientific software industry all these years. Back in 2003 when I was a naive young product manager, I had [...]
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What can we learn from 37 Signals
Love ‘em or hate ‘em, the folks at 37signals are among the standard bearers for the new Web. The company is synonymous with Ruby on Rails, and in yours truly has a rather loyal customer (Backpack, Highrise and Basecamp), even though I sometimes disagree with their software development ideas. Having said that, at [...]
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Video, science and marketing
I’ve been on the video horse lately, so lets keep riding for a bit. This post aims to bring together some recurring bbgm favorites, video and marketing.
Something that Sandra Porter said in a recent post about SciVee got me thinking. We know scientists are bad marketers. Larry Page says so and who [...]
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Adwords as a driver for marketing science
Via Pedro and Bill, I learned about Jeremiah Faith’s attempts at Open Notebook Science. I will not dwell on that aspect, but rather something else that Jeremiah wrote about; advertising in science.
Scientists are poor marketers and whether you are in academia or industry, marketing takes effort and some skill. Not all [...]
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Attention, science and money