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University of Michigan Professor of Robotics Chad Jenkins, center, speaks with attendees on day four of the Distributed Teaching Collaborative Summer Session at the Ford Motor Company Robotics Building on the North Campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on Wednesday, June 28, 2023.
Participants from Berea College, Howard University, Kennesaw State University, and Morehouse College spent the final week of June at the University of Michigan College of Engineering Robotics Department participating in the Distributed Teaching Collaborative Summer Session in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The program, which began with the new Robotics 101 course in Fall 2020 being remotely taught to Morehouse and Spelman College students, enables instructors from different institutions, including Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs), to benefit from open-source resources available for new course development at R1 institutions. This collaboration provides students from HBCUs and MSIs with access to cutting-edge robotics education and helps promote equity in STEM fields.
In March of this year Robotics PhD student Jana Pavlasek and Professor Chad Jenkins were awarded the Claudia Joan Alexander Trailblazer Award for their work developing the new course for undergraduate students, Rob 102: Introduction to AI and Programming. Their commitment to creating opportunity in AI and Robotics continues to extend beyond the University of Michigan. In Fall 2023, Robotics 102 will be offered in this collaborative distributed format to the partner schools. This initiative will help to provide equitable opportunities for students from diverse backgrounds to learn and grow in the field of robotics.
Photo: Brenda Ahearn/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Communications and Marketing
Mayor Bill de Blasio delivers remarks and distributes medals for FDNY Medal Day at the South Street Seaport on Wednesday, April 14, 2021. Credit: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office
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Agro-pastoralists in Tin Akof, northern Burkina Faso, at a Red Cross distribution of food vouchers.The Sahel region of Burkina Faso has been hit hard by erratic rains resulting in a poor harvest, little pasture for livestock and little resources to buy food in the market where the price of a bag of millet has more than doubled in the last year..Food vouchers distributed by the Burkinabe Red Cross will allow beneficiaries to procure the following items from local traders: •15 kilos millet.•15 kilos rice.•1 kilo sugar.•1 kilo salt.•1 ltr oil.Feb 2012
Photo: Sarah Oughton BRC
Mitch Hagney
Distributed Urban Agriculture
While the majority of the population now lives in urban areas, the vast majority of our food still comes from far distant rural farms using increasingly destructive strategies to maximize their yield. All of a sudden, however, technology and the market are giving producers the opportunity to scale urban agriculture up to help make cities sustainable. Innovations in remote sensing, data conglomeration, irrigation design, and lighting are enabling farmers to grow healthy produce on a tiny footprint with fewer dangerous chemicals. In the process, urban farmers can reuse waste as construction material and fertilizer, while operating farms distributed throughout cities in derelict and underutilized spaces.
Flyer distributed around Melbourne in the lead up to the 2018 Victorian Election targeting the Andrews Labor government on a number of policies - notably the Voluntary Assisted Dying Act which was passed in December 2017 and comes into effect in 2019. In addition is the controversial Safe Schools Program and the Drug Injecting facility in inner urban Richmond.
MAGYARKANIZSA, SERBIA - SEPTEMBER 07: An aid worker distributes bread and supplies to migrants at a transition camp September 7, 2015 in Magyarkanizsa, Serbia. Thousands of migrants crossed into Hungary today from Serbia near the town of Horgas. Since the beginning of 2015 the number of migrants using the so-called 'Balkans route' has exploded with migrants arriving in Greece from Turkey and then travelling on through Macedonia and Serbia before entering the EU via Hungary. The number of people leaving their homes in war torn countries such as Syria, marks the largest migration of people since World War II. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
The distributed power unit on NS eastbound train 189 finds itself caught between cuts of auto rack cars. The image was made in Hartford City, Indiana.
Werewolf Universal Monster Animated Halloween Figure by Telco, distributed in USA by SunHill, re-design Circa 1991-1992 by MiMo, Mike Mozart.
MiMo Mike Mozart created thousands of commercial products, books toys and infomercial items, with many signed Michael Wolfe! An adaptation of his real name Wolfgang Mikyáll Mozart often shortened to Wolf or Wolfie
A long and successful career, with his first children’s book sold at age 15 which continues to this day at age 60!
In the early 1980’s, MiMo, Mike Mozart, Co-hosted with TX Critter ( that developed into ALF), the classic KidsTime Express on UHF Channel 20, WTXX Waterbury CT TV Show. Paul Fusco, the original puppeteer and creator of the show went on to create the character and TV Show ALF!
Illustrated over 100 Childrens books, many licensed Walt Disney, Muppets, Looney Toons, Ninja Turtles, Uncle Scrooge McDuck and More!
Created thousands of Holiday and Seasonal
Products, many featuring the pantheon of Walt Disneys top licensed characters! Known for the exceptional designs of season Nutcrackers and sweeping product lines for major Retailers for Horizon’s East. And Christmas, Easter-and Halloween licensed character products for SunHill Industries. Massive product lines featuring the Mickey Mouse line of Basic Characters, Mickey, Minnie, Goofy, Pluto Donald Duck and Daisy Duck.
Disney’s Ducktales
Disney’s the Little Mermaid
Disney’s Aladdin
Disney’s Beauty and the Beast
Disney’s, Bambi
Disney’s Hunchback of Notre Dame
Disney’s 100 Dalmatians
Disney’s Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers
Also:
The Flintstones
Teletubbies
Looney Tunes
Crayola
Scooby Doo
The M&Ms Character Family
Universal Monsters
Assisted and wrote gags for top Newspaper comic strip cartoonists throughout the 1980’s, including Bob Weber of Moose and Molly fame, Guy Gilchrist artist of the Muppets Comic Strips, Jerry Marcus of the strip Trudy, Dik Brown of Hagar the Horrible and Hi and Lois, Orlando Busino of Gus, and many more!
A continuing Voice over talent for imported Japanese cartoons, TV Commercials and seasonal animated an sound products for Halloween and Christmas!
Appeared live on QVC and HSN for over a decade live presenting products of his invention and design. Created top selling infomercial items in the 1980’s and 1990’s!
Notable lawn and garden products, tools and household products.
Was a Top Twenty All Time Most viewed and Subscribed for the first 7 years of YouTube garnering more than a Half Billion Views! Many on TheToyChannel and Jeepersmedia on YouTube!
More Recently, A known fine artist having been the Ghost Artist Designer and Mentor to Alec Monopoly.
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Mayor Bill de Blasio joins a local Cure Violence provider on a site visit to Queensbridge Houses as they distribute face coverings and educate members of the community about social distancing. Queensbridge Houses, Queens. Tuesday, May 26, 2020. Credit: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office.
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House Wren
The House Wren (Troglodytes aedon) is a very small songbird of the wren family, Troglodytidae. It occurs from Canada to southernmost South America, and is thus the most widely distributed bird in the Americas. It occurs in most suburban areas in its range and it is the single most common wren. Its taxonomy is highly complex and some subspecies groups are often considered separate species.
For more info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_wren
Allaire Village
4265 Atlantic Avenue
Farmingdale, NJ 07727
Allaire State Park is a park located in Wall Township in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States, near the borough of Farmingdale, operated and maintained by the New Jersey Division of Parks and Forestry and is part of the New Jersey Coastal Heritage Trail Route. The park is known for its restored 19th century ironworks, Allaire Village, on the park premises. It is named after James P. Allaire, founder of the Howell Works at the same site. The park also hosts the Pine Creek Railroad, a tourist railroad.
Back in the early 1800′s James P. Allaire, a New York iron manufacturer and engine builder purchased a large track of land here in New Jersey that became known as the Howell Works. The Works were a rich source of bog iron at the time and became a major industrial center in the 1830′s. James Allaire ultimately retired to the Howell Works and spent the remainder of his life in this house.
RCDP distributed Honey Bee boxes amng youth for earning livelihood.
By: Gul Hamaad Farooqi
CHITRAL: Honey bee boxes distributed among different youth groups of Chitral for earning their livelihood with an honest way. In this connection a function was held at the office of Rural Community Development Program (RCDP). Director Agriculture Jan Muhammad Khan was chief guest on the occasion while the ceremony was presided over by Muhammad Zahir Khan chief Municipal Officer TMA Chital. They were supported by South Asia Partnership program. Addressing on the occasion the speakers hailed contribution of South Asia partnership program and efforts of RCDP for providing honey bee boxes free of cost among the youth of Chitral. They said that at present 25 boxes will be distributed among the youth of Chitral and 50 boxes will be provided them later on. They stressed upon the youth and beneficiaries to care of these honey bee and try of their best to boost this sector and to increase their number of boxes and to convert it in a best source of income
activity. Engineer Temour Shah Coordinator of RCDP said that RCDP working in chitral since 1997 in different developmental and women empowerment sectors. He said that they prioritized sewing and handicraft center of women, computer centers and library for women at village level.
He said that on the demand of local community they distributing honey bee boxes among the youth of Chitral with collaboration of South Asia partnership. He said that is best way of income for jobless youth. Jan Muhammad Khan Director Agriculture guided participants on technical point of view regarding keeping honey bee. Rahmat Wali Admin officer of TMA Chitral also briefed the stakeholders as expert of honey bee keeping. Chief municipal officer Zahir Khan stressed on youth to not take it lightly and deals it carefully. He said that you can earn your livelihood by this way with a honor way and easily. Nasreen Bibi deputy Coordinator RCDP emphasized on youth to also assure positively participation of women folk because they can keep it with a best way which is reasonable source of their income and boosting their respect in society. At last chief guest along with other guests distributed honey bee boxes with relevant equipments and agreements papers.
Experts guided the youth to save these honey bee from wasp which is harmful for these honey bee.
G.H. Farooqi C/O Manager bank Islami Main branch Chitral phone No 0943-320737, 0943-316052, 0943-414418 , 03025989602, 03337069572, 03159698446, 03469002167
email: gulhamad@gmail.com
Many Thanks to "Douglass Distributing" of www.douglassdistributing.com , based out of Sherman, TX for the donation of Hydraulic Fluid for our E-Tractor Project.
IOM distributes 1200 hygiene and dignity kits to typhoon Haiyan victims across seven barangays including three island barangays in Tacloban, Leyte last 30 Jan. © IOM 2014
REACH food packages distributed to Iraqi displaced family in northern Iraq
Christian Aid’s partner REACH continues to meet displaced families and assess their needs. They are doing all they can, with your support, to help children and families tragically affected by the conflict. This is critical to help people suffering in this latest crisis. For more information, visit our website: www.christianaid.org.uk/iraq
The Postcard
A postally unused postcard that was distributed in the late 1960's by J. Hyman of Hove. The card, which has a divided back, was printed in Holland.
Saltdean
Saltdean is a coastal village near the city of Brighton and Hove. Saltdean is approximately 5 miles (8 km) east of central Brighton, 5 miles (8 km) west of Newhaven, and 6 miles (9.7 km) south of Lewes. It is bordered by farmland and the South Downs National Park.
Saltdean was open farmland, originally a part of the village of Rottingdean, and almost uninhabited until 1924 when land was sold off for speculative housing and property development. Some of this was promoted by entrepreneur Charles W. Neville, who had set up a company to develop the site. He also eventually built the nearby town of Peacehaven and parts of Rottingdean.
Saltdean has a mainly shingle beach, fronted by a promenade, the Undercliff Walk, which can be reached directly from the cliff top, by steps from the coast road, or by a subway tunnel from the nearby Lido.
The Undercliffe Walk continues to Brighton, ending by the Palace Pier. The buildings nearest the beach are the most architecturally varied, and include some influenced by international trends of the inter-war years, e.g. Bauhaus and Cubism, and there are some which are Spanish influenced.
The best known building is the Grade II* listed Saltdean Lido community centre, which includes a public library and the iconic open air swimming-pool, designed by architect R.W.H. Jones.
The Grand Ocean Hotel
Jones also designed other buildings in the area, including the former Grand Ocean Hotel, built using Art Deco 'ocean liner' architecture. Notable features include the internal staircase and foyer.
The hotel opened in 1938. During the Second World War the building was taken over by the fire service, and used as a fire service college. It was then bought by Billy Butlin in 1953 and became a Butlin's Holiday camp. In 2005 a theatrical production, Dirty Wonderland, was staged in the former hotel.
Shortly thereafter the main hotel building was redeveloped into luxury apartments.
IMAGE DISTRIBUTED FOR FOX SEARCHLIGHT - Actress Sofia Vergara attends the Fox Golden Globes Party on Sunday, January 13, 2013, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Todd Williamson/Invision for Fox Searchlight/AP Images)
Jessy Grizzle, the Elmer G. Gilbert Distinguished University Professor, center, works with Jeremiah Keimonn Hillman, left, and Kylin Davis, both students at Kennesaw State University, at day four of the Distributed Teaching Collaborative Summer Session at the Ford Motor Company Robotics Building on the North Campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on Thursday, June 29, 2023.
Participants from Berea College, Howard University, Kennesaw State University, and Morehouse College spent the final week of June at the University of Michigan College of Engineering Robotics Department participating in the Distributed Teaching Collaborative Summer Session in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The program, which began with the new Robotics 101 course in Fall 2020 being remotely taught to Morehouse and Spelman College students, enables instructors from different institutions, including Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs), to benefit from open-source resources available for new course development at R1 institutions. This collaboration provides students from HBCUs and MSIs with access to cutting-edge robotics education and helps promote equity in STEM fields.
In March of this year Robotics PhD student Jana Pavlasek and Professor Chad Jenkins were awarded the Claudia Joan Alexander Trailblazer Award for their work developing the new course for undergraduate students, Rob 102: Introduction to AI and Programming. Their commitment to creating opportunity in AI and Robotics continues to extend beyond the University of Michigan. In Fall 2023, Robotics 102 will be offered in this collaborative distributed format to the partner schools. This initiative will help to provide equitable opportunities for students from diverse backgrounds to learn and grow in the field of robotics.
Photo: Brenda Ahearn/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Communications and Marketing
Habitat: This species is distributed locally where larval food plant is found, mainly in limestone areas of the midlands and west of Ireland.
It has only one annual brood.
Flight Times: The adult may be found at almost any time except mid-summer.
Larval food plants:
Buckthorn Rhamnus catharticus
Alder Buckthorn Frangula alnus
Hibernation: Overwinters as an adult butterfly
The male Brimstone is often found quite a long distance from its food plant.
The Brimstone hibernates as an adult but often comes out of hibernation on mild, sunny winter days returning later to resume hibernation.
Life Cycle of the Brimstone
Ovum:
The bottle shaped eggs are laid singly on the underside of leaves or shoots. They can be laid up to a height of 4 metres or more, between mid-April and the beginning of July, but peaking in May and early June.
They are c.1.3mm in height and initially nearly white in colour but after a few days become a deep yellow turning grey before hatching. The egg stage lasts c.2 weeks.
Larva:
The mature larva is between 32-34 mm in length with a green body which changes to a blue-green on the lateral surfaces above the white supra-spiracular line. The body is finely speckled with black bristles as is the green head. Larvae can be found in June and July. The early instar rests on the upper side
of the leaf along the midrid with it claspers at the base and feeds by eating down through the
layers leaving the characteristic holes, the later instar rests on the leaf edge or along a petiole
and eats the entire leaf. The larval stage lasts for c. 30 days.
Pupa:
When fully fed the larva leaves the food plant to pupate at a suitable site - generally the underside of a leaf or stem in low vegetation. The pupa is attached to the plant by the cresmater and supported by a loose silken girdle.
Pupation takes place in July and lasts c. 2 weeks.
Adult:
After emerging in early July the Brimstone butterfly is active untill the end of September but does not mate and lay eggs until the following spring. Instead it feeds extensively in order to fortify itself for hibernation.
It has a preference for purple and mauve flowers such as thistle, purple loosestrife, buddleia and teasle.
Towards the end of September it goes in search of a suitable hibernation site.
The upperside of the male Brimstone wings are a clear lemon yellow but the hindwings have a slightly greener hue. There is an orange spot in the centre of each forewing near the upper margin and in the centre of both hindwings, and a series of small brown spots along the wing margins at the termination of each vein.
The female Brimstone has much paler upper wings with a green tint.
Both male and female have sharply angled wings and prominent veins and when at rest the colour and shape of their closed wings closely resemble pale yellow leaves. This gives perfect camouflage while overwintering among the holly, ivy or bramble leaves between September and May.
With the tides tending to collect the shingle to one end of the beach, it must be re-distributed from time to time by putting some of it back on the other end of the beach - 40 tonnes at a time. Walmer, Kent, UK
A Budweiser-on-ice graphic refrigerated van trailer and tractor at Kentucky Eagle Distributing, Lexington KY.
Detail photo of hands working together to assemble a Mbot, the three-wheeled Robot used at the University of Michigan to teach AI and programing, in Peter Gaskell’s lab in the Ford Motor Company Robotics Building on the North Campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on Wednesday, June 28, 2023.
Participants from Berea College, Howard University, Kennesaw State University, and Morehouse College spent the final week of June at the University of Michigan College of Engineering Robotics Department participating in the Distributed Teaching Collaborative Summer Session in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The program, which began with the new Robotics 101 course in Fall 2020 being remotely taught to Morehouse and Spelman College students, enables instructors from different institutions, including Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs), to benefit from open-source resources available for new course development at R1 institutions. This collaboration provides students from HBCUs and MSIs with access to cutting-edge robotics education and helps promote equity in STEM fields.
In March of this year Robotics PhD student Jana Pavlasek and Professor Chad Jenkins were awarded the Claudia Joan Alexander Trailblazer Award for their work developing the new course for undergraduate students, Rob 102: Introduction to AI and Programming. Their commitment to creating opportunity in AI and Robotics continues to extend beyond the University of Michigan. In Fall 2023, Robotics 102 will be offered in this collaborative distributed format to the partner schools. This initiative will help to provide equitable opportunities for students from diverse backgrounds to learn and grow in the field of robotics.
Photo: Brenda Ahearn/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Communications and Marketing
Volunteers distribute donated food at Occupy Wall Street
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Handicap International staff distributing tents in the province of Panay. A member of Handicap International's
EMERGENCY APPEAL
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Click here to find out more about Handicap International's emergency response in the Philippinesemergency team is seen distributing tents in the photo. 200 tents were distributed on the day the photo was taken.
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Chandler Mayor Kevin Hartke speaking with attendees at the 2023 Annual Awards Celebration hosted by the Arizona Chamber of Commerce & Industry at Republic National Distributing Company in Phoenix, Arizona.
Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere.
Rohi Aman Mela, Rahim Yar Khan, Punjab Province, Pakistan Feb23 - 2014
The heirs of Khawja Ghulam Farid organized a ROHI MELA in Feroza, Tehsil Khanpur of District Rahim Yar Khan from 22nd February to 24th February, 2014. Various civil society’s organizations, networks, intellectuals and activists from across Pakistan, particularly from Sindh, Balochistan, KPK and Punjab participated in this wonderful event.
UNDP GEF SGP headed by Masood Lohar, Country Coordinator organized the:
1) Awareness Session on use of Solar Energy
• SUFI Conference was also hold in the event, Mr. Nabeel Javed (Deputy Commissioner Rahim Yar Khan) and Mr. Masood Lohar (National Coordinator-UNDP) were the chief guest of the conference, SHAHBAZ Solar Lantern with Cell Phone charging option were distributed among the participants of Horse and Camel riding competition.
• Mr. Shahid Siddique briefed about the charging and usage of SHAHBAZ SOLAR LANTERN.
2) Workshop on GEF-SGP Partners Network, SGP Phase 5
Proposal of building a network of like minded organizations, having participation of Private Organizations CEO/ Owners and technocrats.
Name of Mr. Pervaiz Lodhie was suggested for the member ship of Network.
GEF (Global Environment facility)
SGP (Small Grants Programme)
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Mayor Bill de Blasio distributes food at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens in celebration of Lunar New Year. 79-01 Broadway, Elmhurst, Friday, February 19, 2021. Credit: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office.
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Distributing blister rust infected Ribes leaves in the inoculation chamber. Dorena Genetic Resource Center. Cottage Grove, Oregon.
Photo by: Richard Sniezko
Date: September 13, 2006
Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, Umpqua National Forest, Dorena Genetic Resource Center.
Source: DRGC digital photo collection; courtesy Richard Sniezko, Cottage Grove, Oregon.
The following description of the inoculation process at Dorena is excerpted from pages 72 and 73 of the Whitebark Pine Restoration Strategy for the Pacific Northwest Region. 2009–2013 (available here: ecoshare.info/uploads/documents/WPB_Strategy_PNW_093008cl...):
"The Dorena Genetic Resource Center (Dorena), a component of the regional genetics program of Pacific Northwest Region (and a partner with the regional Forest Health Protection group), has established protocols for blister rust resistance testing of whitebark pine. These protocols are based on those developed and successfully used for screening of western white pine (P. monticola) and sugar pine (P. lambertiana) over the past 5 decades (Danchok et al. 2003).
Resistance testing involves inoculation of young (usually 2-year-old) seedlings with spores of C. ribicola and evaluation of seedlings for up to 5 years after inoculation. Inoculation usually takes place in late August or during September (which coincides with time of natural infection in the field). Seedlings are moved into a climate-controlled inoculation chamber. Temperature within the inoculation chamber is maintained at around 16.7° C (62° F) and relative humidity at 100 percent.
Ribes spp. are the alternative host for C. ribicola, and spores from infected Ribes spp. are necessary to infect the pines. Ribes spp. leaves infected with C. ribicola at the telial stage are collected from forests in Oregon and Washington or from the Ribes garden at Dorena. The Ribes leaves are placed on wire frames above the seedlings, telial side down. Spore fall is monitored until the desired (target) inoculum density of basiospores is reached for each box; the Ribes leaves are then removed. After the target inoculum density is reached for the last box, the temperature is raised to 20° C, and the seedlings are left in the inoculation chamber for approximately 48 hours to ensure spore germination and infection of the pine needles.
Following inoculation, the seedlings are transported outside. The seedlings are evaluated over a period of 5 years for the presence of disease symptoms and mortality. The first symptoms to develop are needle lesions, or ‘spots.’ These are typically assessed approximately 9 months and 1 year after inoculation. Presence and number of stem symptoms along with mortality is assessed annually for 5 years after inoculation."
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
IOM distributes 1200 hygiene and dignity kits to typhoon Haiyan victims across seven barangays including three island barangays in Tacloban, Leyte last 30 Jan. © IOM 2014
Mayor Bill de Blasio delivers remarks and distributes medals for FDNY Medal Day at the South Street Seaport on Wednesday, April 14, 2021. Credit: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office
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Distributed Marketing systems, in the broader ecosystem of Marketing Resource Management, isn’t a simple shoe-in to solve for the challenges of decentralized marketing organizations. And perhaps especially due to the relatively young nature of the industry, both the technology, and the partner selected, need to be the proper fit to meet the challenges of such an organization head-on.
I thought about this while reading an article recently published by Adweek titled The Trouble with Back-Ends: Why Publishers can’t Publish on the Web.
The article highlights the high-probability of failure for Content Management System (or CMS) installations, even recounting a $20 million debacle at BusinessWeek that purportedly led to the publication’s financial demise. The giant takeaway from the article? There is no silver-bullet…..Every publisher has different needs for how they manage their content online.
Why do so many get it wrong? The lucky few were lucky….or they had enough foresight to think through all business requirements, and how the organization can grow with the platform to which they commit. For the unlucky? Over time, millions of dollars are invested – both in hard-costs and labor – which inevitably gets tossed aside once the white flag goes up.
So how can a decentralized marketing organization avoid the same pitfalls publications are making when choosing their CMS systems? There are a few key points that come to mind helping decision makers at decentralized marketing entities choose the proper distributed marketing partner.
Software versus Service – Does Your Partner Provide Both?
Perhaps the greatest point to look for in your partner: to what extent are they strictly a software company versus a marketing services company? How does your potential partner make a living? Let me explain why this is important.
Surely – no matter what type of company you look at, they must build, configure and maintain their own technology. The difference is software companies will license you their software (they make money on the software). A marketing services company, on the other hand, will provide you the software as a means to provide services to the field (they make money on the marketing services behind it).
All things the same…..which one is better? It depends.
Without a doubt, the number one rule in running a successful distributed marketing strategy to properly support decentralized marketing initiatives is putting people behind those initiatives. This includes strong Account Management (to be guiding forces of best practices through the use of software) and strong field customer service (knowledgeable experts on the phone to guide end-users of the software and preach local marketing best practices). Typically, a marketing services organization will provide much stronger Account Support when compared to a pure-play software company (whose Account support may be non-existent).
Large Fortune 100 enterprises may prefer the pure-software route because they want to operationally staff and manage the entire initiative – including the whole vendor marketing execution chain behind the system. On the other hand, organizations that feel it would be better served outsourced, or simply don’t have the resources to add another operational layer, often require strong account management.
We often like to quote a famous line from Field of Dreams – “If you build it, they will come.” In reality, nothing can be further from the truth. You need to push methods for strong field and user engagement behind the platform. Either way you slice it – the general rule of thumb is that without strong support (usually with a pure software install), a distributed marketing initiative will fail.
An Ad Builder? Or a Marketing Platform? Know the Difference.
Second rule. Whenever the onus is placed on the field to finish the marketing execution chain, it impacts adoption (negatively). We often refer to this as the “last-mile problem”.
What do we mean by this? Many companies represent that they have a marketing platform, but at the end of the day, all it really is is an Ad-Builder. The user builds an Ad (in whatever medium – e-mail, direct mail, social media, etc.), but then he/she is responsible for taking it the last mile…. to an e-mail system to send the e-mail, or a printer to mail the file, or a social media site to broadcast the message.
If your system can’t handle this in a turnkey manner, deflecting the responsibility to the field is a sure-fire way to decrease use of your marketing programs/materials and lead to a failed initiative.
Concentrate on Your Core Requirements, but Make sure you can Grow
In consideration to the above requirement, the honest feedback is that no one company has “all-areas” covered. You’ll also most likely need to take baby steps on how you launch your platform and corresponding services to the field. Its a marathon, not a sprint.
In marketing, we always love to focus on the buzz words of what’s hot. But what are your core requirements? What does your organization spend 80% of their time supporting, or what is the most difficult challenges you are facing with your field? By focusing there first, you are solving for problems that are immediate and most important, rather than getting jazzed up by a certain feature that may have little overall relevance in the beginnings of your system.
That being said, you also MUST explore your partner’s growth potential to ensure your future objectives are aligned with the product and service roadmap of your company of choice. In evaluating your partner, to what extent is their core focus squarely focused on solving the needs of decentralized marketing organizations? What is on their product roadmap, and to what extent do your opinions matter in developing this roadmap. Is this their core platform, or just an extension of their system outside their area of focus? Is development finished on the software platform, or are their continued IT resources improving the technology? What are these resources?
By not focusing on core requirements, and/or choosing a company not dedicated to solving the complex challenges for decentralized marketing initiatives, long-term viability of your solution is poor.
In conclusion – always remember……be forward thinking about the potential growth of your marketing intiatives. Where you will be two years down the line will be a lot different from today. Avoid the pitfalls of the CMS landscape by understanding who your partner really is – and their philosophies on helping you drive strategy to deliver valuable local marketing solutions for your network.
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February 1, 2022 - Bronx - Today, Governor Kathy Hochul, joined by Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson and the World Central Kitchen, distributes hot meals for 56 families at the Alden Hotel who were displaced by the Bronx Apartment Fire on January 9, 2022. World Central Kitchen is a not-for-profit non-governmental organization devoted to providing meals in the wake of natural disasters. Founded in 2010 by celebrity chef José Andrés, the organization prepared food in Haiti following its devastating earthquake. (Kevin P. Coughlin / Office of Governor Kathy Hochul )
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IOM distributes 625 hygiene and dignity kits to seven barangays of Libacao in the province of Aklan last Feb 2. Some of the beneficiaries came from far flung barangays and had to hire motorcycles and travel 30 minutes to an hour just to reach the town proper. Those who can’t afford to hire a motorbike had to walk for 2-3 hours. © IOM 2014 (Photo by Alan Motus)