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Folks, This weekend, my 18 month old grandaughter Sophie Morvan, visited my wife and I for a long weekend. My son, Jonathan, 27 years old, a Divinity Student at Gordon Conwell, assembled

I read yet another comment on character blogging today. My comment reads: I’ve pondered character blogs for quite a while now. My feeling is that ALL bloggers have some sort of

Folks, The following is a letter from Steven, my responses are in bold Dear Dr. Ron, I work in testing lab in Hong Kong. Recently we have received many inquiries on WEEE and RoHS regarding exempted

I am moblogging from the annual paean to all things Semiconductor, Semicon West. in San Francisco. This event brings semiconductor manufacturers and their materials, equipment, process, and

Folks, I try to take my students to dinner 3 or 4 at a time, two times a week or so. This term it will be a challenge to fit all 190 of the students in! This past Wednesday I had a large group of 7

Jan writes: Thanks for all your help. I re-read an email that a gentleman had sent to you on March 14th trying to get a better understanding of the exemption for Medical devices. I was under the

Jeffrey Gitomer really nails the issue in this article. Read his list of “16.5 elements to look for, look out for, … “ when preparing a PowerPoint

Advertising is an important part of Marcom. Just like everyone else, advertisers occasionally go too far – even in theB2B arena. A very concise and meaningful article on just this topic is

I met IBM’s B2B Marcom expert Sher Taton (Corporate HQ, Armonk, NY, USA) at a recent American Marketing Association seminar called Blogs: Marketing Beyond The Website (previous post). I was

Folks, Several companies have developed hand held units to aid in screening for RoHS compliance Let me start off by saying that I think such a unit would be very helpful; however one needs to be a

Folks, My class at Dartmouth, Materials: The Substance of Civilization has attracted almost 200 students or about 19% of the class of 2007. The 2007 students have to spend this summer on campus. It

On my buccolic commute home last night I bisected numerous plots of farm land. The smell of ripe strawberies on a steamy summer night was beyond description. I was surprised to see how tall the corn

Folks, This past Friday, I was asked to give a presentation on my blog by the American Marketing Association at their Boston Blog Workshop. My colleague and blog muse Rick Short was

With a topic as dynamic as blogging, the latest AMA Hot Topic Series seminar, Blogs: Marketing Beyond The Website was pretty lively. Everyone gained, and virtually everyone had something to share and

On a personal note, it has been mucho hot here in Upstate New York (and summer just arrived). On my way to lunch today I noticed that my car thermometer was reading 113F! By the time I thought of

Dr. Ron Lasky and I presented at the American Marketing Association’s blogging seminar in Boston, MA today (image is of Dana VanDen Heuvel, myself, Toby Bloomberg, and Dr. Lasky). While there I

George writes: Dear Dr. Ron: The first exemption in the RoHS Annex is that of mercury in compact fluorescent lamps cannot exceed 5 mg per lamp. I would like to inquire what is the definition of

He is a Marcom Director’s dream. Of course I am talking about our own Dr. Ning-Cheng Lee. He is smart, accomplished, proven, acknowledged, creative, and humble. Additionally, he loves to

I am proud of a recent Marcom development executed by the Indium team. I want to use this space to thank each and everyone involved for their contribution. It was a long, hard road that could only be

Note from Dr. Ron: Kathy Hickey is a former graduate student of mine (Smith and Dartmouth graduate) who is a principal in NeoVention, a start up company focusing on bringing medical device prototypes

I've been doing a lot of talking about blogging, and Marcom in general, lately. I feel that the practice of preparing for a presentation is very helpful to the presentor. We all know the old