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Developers Sue Purchasers to Complete Sales

Western investor article about developers suing purchasers who are trying to dodge out on their condo purchases, due to volatile markets....interesting.

"Just Landed in _________" Tweets.

This 3D rendering generates where someone is tweeting from and where they have "just landed"......

Still trying to figure out why.....

Just Landed - 36 Hours from blprnt on Vimeo.

Cornerstone Senior Mgmt Outlook on Business

Read the Cornerstone Senior MGMT outlook. 

Kill your website?

Interesting post by David Armano...makes a good case for a blog VS traditional website. 

Future of Business

Click on full screen for better viewing. Some interesting insights and predictions from Ross Dawson on the future of business.
The Future of Global Business: Implications and Opportunities

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Aviawest Corporate Retreat (Strategy-Session)

As most of you may know and have heard by now, there is a group of about 30 or so Aviawest leaders heading for the hill next week for a couple of days.

Why? Skiing? nope, closed for the season. Hiking? Biking? Too much snow. Chew the fat and drink beer session? Well, there probably will be some of that, but seriously, here's what we hope to achieve:

1. Review of where Aviawest has been, where we are now. Transparency, which should filter down through the organization.

2. Gaining the input of the leadership team on where we appear to be headed in the next year, 2 years and 5 years...and where they think we should be headed.

3. Continuing the process of defining exactly "what" Aviawest could be the best in the world at, and how are we going to get there. If you're interested in reading more about the framework we've chosen to model after, take a look here.

4. Parkside Victoria completion and operational strategy. It will be open in the next 2 months, and we will be working out some of the final strategy regarding opening that project.

When we're not able to invite everyone to this type of event, it's a difficult situation. At "home", we need to keep the lights on, doors open and things operational. It's also a matter of balancing resources which are available to us. (We're doing this planning session on a minimal budget)

Our apologies to anyone who feels they should have been invited, but were not. Let us know. We'll listen and if you have a good case, we'll make a sincere effort to put you on the list next time.

This strategy and planning session is probably one of the most important things we can do to help get the organization to the next level and to integrate Parkside into the Aviawest mix. Thanks for your support and efforts which contribute to making it possible.

Jim Pearson / CEO

Twitter. Tweeting. Retweet. Why I am a Twit(ter')

I first heard about twitter about June of 2008. My initial reaction was...why? Why on earth would anyone 'mass text message' a bunch of (mostly) strangers? Perhaps there are a lot of celebrities and dotcom millionaires with waaay too much time on their hands. What else could the attraction be? really? Who has the time? 

First what is twitter? It's basically a micro blog. 140 characters, no more, but less is fine. You can follow anyone, and other twitter's may choose to follow you, without permission. 

To discover the value, I can retrace my steps of how I got on the bandwagon. February of 2009, I was in California following the Tour of California  bike race for a few days with some friends. Lance armstrong tweets. My friend Dave, who is far too enamored with Sir Lance tried to convince me that Lance was actually updating from his blackberry all sorts of great insider images and information about the race. There's no way I said. "It's his publiscist Dave! - you're a sucker!

Well, it turns out I'm the sucker. Dave was right. Lance definitely tweets, and it's not his 'peeps'...the real guy. Lance, at the time of this post was the 12th most followed person on Twitter (646,925 followers) and had tweeted 1473 times in the last 6 months, since he started on twitter. That's an average of over 8 tweets a day. Like I said, there's a reason celebrities are the power users.

But where's the real value? For me, it's been a few things. Its like facebook, but not as social and more random. I think Twitter is here for the long term. It's more business and value, less entertainment. The main reason I use it, and barely use facebook is time. 140 Characters is attractive to me. 

As the cliche goes, a picture is worth a 1000 words. Image courtesy of www.applicant.com Click on the image to enlarge.

Oh ya. Follow my innane tweets on @ http://twitter.com/jim_pearson

Good Reads

Great book review site. 

Live Video Broadcasting, from iPhone...while driving?

This was quite something. The guy (Joel) is was driving down the road and doing a live streaming video cast, from his iPhone. It won't appear live now, but there are probably other "Ustream" feeds to take a look at. 

The implications this has for broadcasting yourself, your company, your service, your cause are incredible. Live information, as it happens.

Cisco CEO on how to compete in the future