Tuesday, September 15, 2009

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Google drops the ball (again)

by Cinda Baxter on September 15, 2009

in Google, The 3/50 Project

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Please know that my heart is at a full stop when I say this: Google Docs are screwed up yet again.

For the second time in a month, their forms and spreadsheet service is malfunctioning, vaporizing completed forms after the fact. What does that mean in street terms? You fill out an online form, click the “submit” button, and assume the company on other end has received your info. What’s happening instead? That info disappears once you click the button…and no one on either end of the transaction knows it until it’s too late.

To my horror, the “vaporizing” process has reached out and touched The 3/50 Project yet again, wiping out all Other Brick and Mortar Businesses registrations dating back to September 1st. The others forms on the site are fine–only the second category on our Jump In page has been affected. [click here to continue…]

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Another historic gem files Chapter 11, but….

by Cinda Baxter on September 15, 2009

in Economy, New York

tavern_on_the_greenAdmittedly, this one breaks my heart.

Tavern on the Green isn’t just a beloved gem in New York; to me, it’s the home of many happy memories: attending the National Stationery Show party with Mom the first time we went to market…dinner with dear, wonderful Vicki Hoffstetter who helped me begin my path into industry leadership…co-presenting the inaugural Rep of the Year Award at the REA dinner with Carol Schroeder…flirting with a certain tall, dark, and handsome gentleman in the gift industry who, to this day, has no clue what a crush I had on  him…and the night a handful of us danced beneath thousands of twinkling lights on the back terrace, music wafting over from a wedding reception on the neighboring patio. To some, Tavern may be a cliché, but to me, it’s a treasure box. [click here to continue…]

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