All of 14 months...

Whats going on with little girl now that she's all of 14 month's old? 

Ahhh...my sweet little girl just keeps growing bigger and taller and getting cuter and cuter.  She's picking up things so quickly and her little personality is getting stronger and stronger.

She is still a skinny little thing...but eats just about anything we put in front of  her.  Most recently she's tried shrimp...

And sushi...



Someone's got a Temper with a capital T.  The terrible twos fourteen months have started...If they start 10 months early does that mean they end ten months early?



She's fallen in love with her blankies now and carries them around with her.



They are almost always over her shoulder so we decided maybe she needed a cape?



And when there is one caped girl you can always find another...



I gave her a box the other day and its become the favored lounge spot...





She and big sissy Madmad love to dance.  Their favorite song is YMCA.




She says baba for bottle, bah-bah for bye bye, hawwwt for hot, pbttttt for elephant and her best "first word" was just the other day...she saw her dad come in the door and said, "Dadddeeeeeeeeee."  Now she's non-stop chatterbox.

She loves to read stories.  Her favorite books right now are pop up books or lift the flap books.

She can identify eyes, nose, mouth and bellybutton.  Be aware that if you ask her to say bellybutton you better be prepared to bare your midriff and show yours.  :)

She loves Sesame Street and we watch "1...2...3...Count with me" pretty much every day...she likes to sit in her box while its on...at least until number 12 "Honk around the Clock" comes on and then she's up and grooving.

She's fascinated by the dishwasher...and weirdly enough likes to lick it.  Ugh...yeah...so today dad caught her trying to lick the soap dish.  Blech.

Last, but not least she is a waterbaby.  This summer we'll be going to the pool and learning to swim. 


She's learned to go to sleep all on her own.  I'm so proud of her.  We put her in her crib and she lays down and then waits for us to give her a baba (bottle).  Then she snuggles up and goes right to sleep. 

With that in mind...we bid you all a good night.  Bah-Bah!
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...so I ran away screaming

I love seven.

Maddie:  Guess what He said to me at school today?

Me:  What?  And who is He?

Maddie:  I don't know his name.  He won't tell me.

Me:  Oh, ok.  So, what did He say?

Maddie:  You're cute!....  so I ran away screaming.

Me:  Good job.  You keep doing that when boys say you're cute.


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6 things the iPad means for B2B Marketers

Yesterday, Steve Jobs announced Apple's latest device, the iPad. A 10 inch, touch-screen tablet with Wi-Fi access, and an extension of the iPhone/iPod platform for both application development and media purchase. It's a beautiful device, as is expected from Apple, and will surely see plenty of uptake over the coming year.

The transition that this causes in the consumer market, and to book sellers, has already been much discussed. As a marketer focused on selling to businesses, however, there remains the question of what effect this will have.

Here are six important changes that we will likely see, as B2B marketers, as the iPad and its peers become more commonplace:

1) Returning relevance of print media: the iPad is designed to shake up the print landscape, for newspapers, magazines, and periodicals. If it succeeds in this, we will see the transition of that subscriber base from off-line to digital. This means that print advertising, long too untargeted to be a mainstay of B2B marketing, may make its return. With pay-for-performance price models and highly precise targeting, the advertising opportunities may be as interesting to B2B marketers as search engines were 5 years ago.

2) Integration of offline and online experiences: the form factor of a tablet makes it extremely easy to have with you at all points in the day. For B2B marketers at offline events such as seminars and tradeshows, this means that the online and offline experiences can be melded seamlessly. A salesperson carrying an iPad can easily segue into a live demonstration if the conversation goes that way, and a prospect carrying an iPad can be guided to online resources during the booth conversation if it makes sense to. The integrated experience can be much greater than either alone.

3) Books and whitepapers become interactive: as books and whitepapers are more and more read on devices like an iPad, rich interactive aspects become increasingly possible. Embedded videos within a book, links for more detailed exploration of topics, and interactive experiences to highlight a point all become possible, allowing us to rethink the book and whitepaper formats entirely.

4) Location awareness in everything: Although only the 3G model of the iPad appears to have GPS, the Wi-Fi will enable location detection, and it is not a great leap to assume that GPS will be commonplace in future models. As more devices become location aware, more applications will be re-factored to take advantage of that location knowledge. New applications like foursquare, or older applications like LinkedIn will build deep location knowledge of people in your network, allowing new forms of social networking to increasingly bridge the physical divide. Similarly, this will allow much more accurate location-based message targeting and may revive the local breakfast or lunch event as it becomes easier to connect with only local executives.

5) Application explosion: The prevalence of iPad devices, if successful, in the executive audiences who make most B2B purchase decisions could mean a great opportunity for freemium iPad applications that would help those executives in one aspect of their daily lives, while building the case for your full solution.

6) Sales enablement enrichment: A field sales person is another likely candidate for iPad adoption, and their ability to remain mobile while working with a full-size form factor device means that their need for insights and data on leads will greatly increase. Rather than just wanting the name and phone number of a lead sent to their Blackberry, they will insist on rich activity data and deeper insights being available on their iPad.

If the iPad is successful, it will certainly affect all aspects of society, much as the iPhone has done. As B2B marketers, we will benefit from watching these trends as they unfold and hopefully being ahead of them.

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Four Reasons for an Information Concierge

There is a role in modern sales and marketing that is just starting to form. I call it the “Information Concierge”, but I suspect a similar role is called many things in many different organizations. This role bridges the gap between potential buyers and the information we have that is of value to them.

In many ways, this is what many of us are doing in social media, discovering conversations that relate to the topics of interest to us, and helping the people in those conversations through sharing data, perspective, anecdotes, and frameworks.

This, in essence, is the role of a concierge – helping to connect those seeking information with the information itself. But, it’s not purely an altruistic pursuit, we do it in order to ensure that our data, our perspectives, our anecdotes, and our frameworks make their way into the conversation. We do this in a non-salesy way, but we do it in a way that works to guide prospects our way slowly over time.

So why not search?

We’re all aware of the power of Google and Bing to find information, and the trends in the market towards deeper searches with more words. It is the main driver of website traffic for many businesses, and many of us have put great effort into being found by the search engines, so it may seem a little counter-intuitive to need an “information concierge” role. After all, it seems like it is an inefficient, human-based way to solve a challenge that the search engines solve so much more efficiently.

The Need for an Information Concierge

I believe though, that there are four reasons that the information concierge role is necessary, and will continue to grow, even as search engines continue to improve:

Clarity: As buyers look for deeper and deeper content, the clarity with which they must craft their search query increases. If you are looking for “measuring email deliverability rates for dedicated sending IPs”, you may or may not find an article that discusses “monitoring email sender reputations and non-delivered email counts by sender address”, even though it may be precisely what you are looking for. The information concierge role, however, can put these two together easily, and guide a person who asks that question in a discussion to the right discussion.

Priority: We all know that the first page of results on Google, and only the first few results there, are what generates nearly all the clicks. If a great article does not find its way to that top list, it will not be discovered by searchers in most cases. The information concierge can prioritize differently, and ensure that the best article, or perspective, for the question at hand is the one that is presented.

Ease: Let’s be honest, it can be difficult to find the information you need sometimes, and just asking a question in an active forum can result in a very quick set of detailed and valuable responses. As we move away from attempting to sell to buyers and towards facilitating their buying processes, the easier we can make it on them, the better.

Perspective: Perhaps the most important reason is the occasional need to change a buyer’s perspective. If they are not aware of your solution category, are thinking about the problem in an outdated way, or are attaching too much weight to the wrong decision criteria, only an information concierge can detect this, and provide them with a carefully crafted and well presented case for changing that perspective.

Search is an incredibly powerful and highly relevant way in which buyers obtain their information, but it remains only one part of the picture. As we move forward, I would suspect we’ll see a much clearer formalization of the “Information Concierge” role.

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Hi, this is something interesting isn't it? But, this is what my requirement. I will tell you in detail. I have a gridview on my page and another table with the same number of columns. Grid view is for showing and updating data. And I have one extra table for adding a new record. This table immediately follows the actual grid view. The extra table named the class as "tableAdd". So, user sees the gridview header and enter the data into the tableAdd row and hit save button and gridview will refresh and shows up the newly created record.

But there is a problem in look and feel. Because both are in different tables, when the browser width changes or resolution changes the columns in both tables are not in sync, even if they have same columns and same width. So, how to make them sync? Then I got an idea to implement a solution  using JQuery. So, I planned to grab both tables on client side and merge them into one.

<table class="gridview"><tr><td>col1</td><td>col2</td></tr></table>
<table class="tableAdd"><tr><td><input type="text" /></td><td><input type="button" /></td></tr></table>

Now, above are two tables I have and now I need to merge them into one and delete the second table from the DOM.

$(".gridview > tbody:last").append($(".tableAdd > tbody").html());   
$(".tableAdd").remove();

Hope, you understood it well and may helps in some scenarios. Please let me know, if you have any problems.

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JQuery Append a table row at first and last positions of a table

This is something you need to know when you have some requirement to add rows to table on client side using some java script technology. I have chosen JQuery and the requirement is, I need to add the rows at first and last of the existing table. Below is the way to achieve that.

Add as first row of a table:
$(".gridview").prepend("<tr></tr>");
Add as last row of a table:
$(".gridview > tbody:last").append("<tr></tr>");

I think, you feel it's simple. Yes it is easy and helps in solving some issues. And remember the class gridview I have used in this example, is the table class name. And the string "<tr></tr>" is the actual table row content.

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Dynamics of Influencers

One of the most important uses of social media in a B2B environment is to build and maintain relationships with influencers in your space. There is much agreement with that, but there is also the sense that this is somehow new within the world of social media.

An Old Challenge

Managing influencers, however, has long been a part of the role of marketing – analyst relations and public relations have long had this as their main goal. By carefully managing and cultivating good relationships with influencers such as analysts, journalists, and editors, you would find your perspectives known and understood by the writers, you would be included in mentions, and you might even find a slightly more positive perspective on your company than without such a strong relationship.

Influencers in a Social Media World

In today’s world, this core dynamic is still there. Good relationships with influencers can lead to being present in mentions, having perspective understood and appreciated, and having a slightly more positive bias. However, while the core dynamic remains, the approach that we need to use to manage influencers has changed significantly.

More But Smaller

The first major change is that the influencers have changed in number and in size. Whereas historically, there may have been a few analysts worth focusing on, and a similar number of publications, there are now many, many more blogs, lifestreams, content sites, and magazines (let’s call them all "publications" just to keep things simple). This is brought about by the fact that the cost of infrastructure needed to publish information has gone down to nearly zero. This explosion in the number of publications is matched by a corresponding decrease in their individual size. Many only have a few thousand viewers, or focus on a highly specialized niche that would have been unprofitable for a major news outlet.

Changing Relationships

With this change in size comes a change in how relationships are maintained. Major news and publishing outlets forced structure on the process in order to keep things under control. This led to formal briefing processes, embargoed news releases, and the use of news wires for the release of news. Now, with an explosion of publishers, each of whom influence a niche area of the market, this process is not necessarily as formal – it is a much more social process of relationship building.

However, these new publishers – bloggers, independent writers, and niche experts – do not want to follow the formalized briefing processes of yesterday. What they want are the direct relationships with the key people of relevance to their area of interest or writing. These are often the subject matter experts who truly understand the content that is relevant to the topic at hand.

To build and maintain these relationships, the same rigor we applied to building and maintaining relationships with analysts and journalists over the past few decades, but with two new twists:

- the relationships must be maintained in larger numbers

- they must be maintained by many key people on your team, executives, subject matter experts, and thought leaders, rather than just the PR group


Easier Relationships

Making this easier, however, is the fact that the dynamics of these relationships are changing quite a bit. As Chris Brogan and Julien Smith discuss in Trust Agents (link is to Kathleen Schaub's discussion on this specific topic), the technologies of social media make it easier to maintain relationships with “half strangers” – and in doing so it is easier to maintain a larger number of relationships.

These relationships can be maintained through much more scalable interactions – interacting on Twitter, good conversations on blogs, discussions on LinkedIn, and various other forms. Many relationships are developed this way while only meeting face-to-face once or even not at all.

New People, New Influence

This change, while seeming small, fundamentally changes the dynamics of how we as B2B organizations manage how we influence the influencers in our spaces. The number of influencers has increased dramatically, while their relative size and the formality of their briefing processes had decreased a comparable amount. At the same time, the people they are interested in having a relationship with are the subject matter experts in our organizations. This is the reason why it is critical to have more people in your organization “join the conversation” – each of them maintains a number of relationships with a few key influencers, and in doing so, broadens your influence in the overall market. Read More...

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...by whether or not you can sing karaoke in front of them.

And yes...I'm so glad that John and I have found a couple that I can belt out Hotel California and Livin' on a Prayer with during our Rock Band Gig.  I think what I'm most proud of is that I actually scored in the high 80% on my first two tries.  :)

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This is the most of times QA team will try to do and file bugs in web applications. They tries to enter the HTML into the textbox and the request fails as usual. The page renders with an .net generic exception if it is asp.net web application. This is because of the security problems. ASP.NET [OR I am not sure how different languages treat the html in textbox] if any HTML in the input textbox then it treats that it as "script injection attack".
If you think that the web application is safe to enter HTML tags in the input controls then there are two solutions.
  • For the specific page, I mean in the page directive just add extra attribute ValidateRequest="false". This will apply to only that page, so you can enter HTML into the text boxes for that page.
  • If you want to solve this problem for all pages in the application then in the web.config file, add ValidateRequest="false" for <pages> tag.
But, as we discussed this is not the 100% true solution, because there are chances of script injection attack. So, how to solve this problem? Today these days, everyone started using javascript or JQuery in their web applications. I have chosen JQuery to fix this problem. Below is the solution.
$(document).ready(function() {
$("input").live("keyup", function() {
RemoveTheHTMLFromTextBox($(this));
});
$("input").blur(function() {
RemoveTheHTMLFromTextBox($(this));
});
$("input").live("click", function() {
RemoveTheHTMLFromTextBox($(this));
});
function RemoveTheHTMLFromTextBox(obj) {
var inputValue = $(obj).val();
if (inputValue.indexOf('<') > -1 || inputValue.indexOf(">") > -1) {
$(obj).val($(obj).val()
.replace(/"/g, "")
.replace(/</G, ??)
.replace(/>/g, "")
.replace(/&/g, ""));
}
}
});

This will look for any HTML tags [<>] and replace them with empty space. This solution will work perfectly. Hope you like it. What is your opinion? any best solution?

Note: Don’t forget to add the JQuery file before you access this script.

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How to check JQuery object is null

This is simple and no need to write post for it. You may feel same right? But, this is the question I received from almost 10 people till now. So, I thought of writing a post on it. So that, it may help people who are looking for the same through out the world.

By default JQuery returns object when you declare $("$id") or $(".class"). If you write code for it as below, then that's wrong.

if($("#id") != null)
{
//Write code if the object is not null
}

if($(".class") != null)
{
//Write code if the object is not null
}

If you write the above code for checking null condition then if condition always success and will execute code inside of the if condition. So, the correct solution is,

if($("#id").length > 0)
{
//Write code if the object is not null
}

if($(".class").length > 0)
{
//Write code if the object is not null
}

It tries to find all objects which has the given id or class and if any exists then the length will be equal to the number of times the id or class occurred. So, if the length is zero then it's nothing but the id or class don't exist and the object is null.

Hope, this solved your problem and this is a new tip for today. Is this helpful?

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CEOs and Marketing Metrics

CEOs may not be involved in the day to day challenges of the marketing department, but they can strongly influence its evolution through the questions that they ask and the metrics that they track, both in the marketing and sales teams. Done well, this structure and encouragement can facilitate a transition to a buyer-centered, efficient marketing and sales organization. Done poorly, however, the structure and metrics that a CEO imposes on his or her team can prevent the needed transitions from taking place.

High Level Framework

At the executive team and board levels, CEOs should measure marketing on objective, standard metrics around marketing’s ability to create, nurture, and qualify sales-ready buyers. By looking at Marketing’s ability to manage the top end of the revenue funnel through balance sheet and income statement metrics, CEOs will instill the discipline of defining the stages of the buying process, measuring leads against these stages, and facilitating buyers’ movement through each stage by carefully targeted campaigning.

Similarly, CEOs must work to have Sales and Marketing present their views of revenue projections, and the needed investments, in a coordinated fashion. The hand-off of a lead from Marketing to Sales should be based upon a mutually agreed-upon definition, and thus should enable a common view of the entire funnel from the earliest stages of awareness to the final closure of a deal. With this in place, and with an understanding of the conversion times and percentages between each two stages, there is an ability to see potential revenue shortfalls well in advance and adjust investment across the entire Sales and Marketing spectrum accordingly.

Conflicting Metrics

Without this coordinated focus, it is easy for conflicting metrics to develop. For example, if a Marketing team is focusing on only handing highly qualified leads to Sales, they will naturally reduce the number of leads that are passed. If, however, the Sales team is managed and measured based on activity metrics such as the number of calls per day, they will resist the reduction in lead volume from Marketing, even though the lead quality is significantly higher.

In measuring Marketing, CEOs encourage the right behavior when they think in terms of the buyers’ buying process:

- How is awareness of your solution category first developed?

- How do buyers educate themselves, and is that education process something you should be a part of?

- When prospective buyers understand a business challenge or opportunity and seek to solve it, do they discover your company?

- How are solutions selected and validated in your category?
What criteria are used, and how have we educated buyer on why to select us?

These questions focus marketing on understanding and facilitating buyers throughout the entire buying process.

What this may mean, however, is that Marketing focuses more on processes that continuously nurture prospective buyers, continually allow your solutions to be found, and gradually establish buying criteria that allow your solution to be selected. This can often reduce the number of large, one-off campaigns that attract significant internal attention, but may do far less to engage with buyers, as they are timed and targeted based on the company’s needs and schedules rather than those of the buyers.

Results in Terms of Buyers

CEOs that ask Marketing for results that are defined in terms of the prospective buyers – such as the movement of prospects between one stage of their buying process and the next – allow Marketing to better focus on campaigns that facilitate buyers. While large one-off campaigns can at times be useful, they often attract a disproportionate amount of internal attention due to their higher internal visibility. CEOs that avoid the temptation to only ask for and look at large one-off campaigns are guiding Marketing teams in a direction that is more focused on the needs of buyers.

Driving a Marketing team to look at hard metrics for their campaigns, and to take responsibility for those metrics has some interesting repercussions. A marketing team can commit to revenue metrics, delivery of objectively qualified leads, and to managing an overall healthy and predictable revenue pipeline. With this responsibility and measurement, however, comes the associated ability to associate compensation with directly measurable performance. CEOs should not be afraid to challenge long-held beliefs on compensation levels between Sale and Marketing. Even institutions such as Presidents’ Club, long the purview of Sales, should be opened up to anyone in the Marketing organization performing sufficiently well against objectively defined metrics.

CEOs that set the right framework and structure for their Marketing and Sales teams can drive an evolution of performance. However, simple actions and metrics, or long-held beliefs that are not challenged, can easily derail the best intentions of Marketing and Sales executives seeking to improve their own performance.
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