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Blog like a journalist
Worth a read: American newspaper reporter and mommy blogger Kelby Carr gives her top tips for hacks who blog: http://kelbycarr.com/how-to-blog-like-a-journalist/
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Golden Spider award: good content keeps users coming back for more
Clear Ink editorial client, InsolvencyJournal.ie, scooped Best Professional Services website last night. The site was recognised for its high quality presentation of relevant content and its smart use of effective and appropriate technology. Risteard Cooper, master of ceremonies for the night, said the judges thought “What is striking about insolvencyjournal.ie is the quality of its execution. Great content, [...]
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NAMA – the questions looking for amendments
Although NAMA is going ahead, many issues and questions still remain. More than 135 amendments have been suggested at the debate stage. Here are some of the issues that need to be addressed on behalf of the public. Some of theses come from a list I “tweeted” to Prime Time last night after @marklittlenews asked [...]
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September 15th marks one year since Lehman Brothers – an investment bank that I worked for in the 1990s – was allowed to crash and burn. What, if anything, has the financial sector learned since then? Well, if President Obama’s opinions are anything to go by it’s not much. Today he told an audience in downtown New [...]
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October 31, 2009
From WSJ: “[US] banks have generally been keeping a lid on commercial real-estate losses by extending these mortgages upon maturity. However, that practice, billed by many industry observers as “extending and pretending,” has come under criticism by some analysts and investors as it promises to put off the pains into the future… Critics say the new rules [...]
October 30, 2009
I was on the panel for Leviathan last night talking about NAMA.
October 29, 2009
Last night’s Leviathan debate was an interesting one – despite the egg-throwing – and it showed even more clearly that Nama is not fit for its purpose and that the politicans have no idea what they are doing. They are truly making it up as they go along. Nama, according to its website, is an independent commerical entity [...]
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Margaret tries not to take life too seriously. This is probably a weird reaction to working in serious industries – business journalism and Wall St. – most of her life. To keep from laughing out loud during meetings she has exorcised her humour demons by writing columns for the Irish Times (Platform, Cents & Nonsense), the Irish Marketing Journal, everymonday.ie and insolvencyjournal.ie. (more…)
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