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San Francisco based content strategist, cupcake maker and voracious reader.
With her award-winning marketing background, Laura teaches everyone from individuals to Fortune 100 companies the keys to great storytelling and how to sell yourself and your brand.
She's edited and authored over 20 books as tech editor of Instructables, and is currently writing her latest book on fostering creativity and "intrapreneurs" in the workplace.
She's spoken to audiences on technology, personal empowerment and brand marketing at Women 2.0, Concordia University and across North American and Europe.
Her work in social media has been inducted into the Viral Marketing Hall of Fame.
I began managing social media for Intel Software in July 2013. My role includes strategy and creative direction, content creation, editorial calendar management, media buying and measurement.
For samples of my work with Intel, please see:
As a storyteller at heart, I help companies and individuals succeed in sharing their stories and vision. I've worked with companies such as GE, Autodesk, Intel, Atlassian and Instructables on developing and implementing content and community strategies that strengthen their brand personalities. My experience spans a mix of Fortune 100 companies and startups, across B2B, B2C and B2Developer audiences.
I successfully managed the content strategy and writing for the GE Software Design Hub, a central repository of design standards that covers all sectors of GE's businesses.
My work included IA and UX recommendations as well as a comprehensive re-write of the site, to provide greater clarity and usefulness to GE employees.
★ StackMob is a SaaS platform, enabling mobile developers to build apps more quickly.
★ Started every campaign from a data-driven standpoint. Using Marketo, Salesforce, Sprout Social and Google Analytics to measure, monitor and adjust campaigns.
★ Developed targeted editorial calendar for StackMob, increasing visits to our blog by 390%.
★ Created content strategy to fill the funnel and developing lead nurturing campaigns to pull prospects through the sales funnel.
★ Partnered with the business development team to create compelling marketing communications including case studies, sales materials, website content, newsletters, webinars, social media content and speaking engagement presentations.
★ Instructables is a project sharing website for DIY enthusiasts. All content is created by visitors to the site who post projects. Sold to Autodesk in August 2011.
★ Engaged with 10 million monthly visitors to improve user submitted content and increase community activity.
★ Rewarded the community with prizes, contests, giveaways and early access programs, resulting in 30% increase in posted projects and improved user submitted content by 58%.
★ Leveraged social media to increase new visitors and organized outreach campaigns to potential authors, increasing new authors by 15%.
★ Scout Labs provided a social media monitoring platform. Acquired by Lithium Technologies in May 2010.
★ Product marketing responsibilities included collecting market research, define product positioning vs competition and integrating new pricing models.
★ Project managed complete redesign and rewrite of website, engaged key stakeholders and increased visitors to pricing page by 55%.
★ Focused heavily on sales enablement collateral, webinar creation, demo training and product videos.
★ Atlassian is a software company focused on building tools for technical teams.
★ Managed public relations for seven products, garnering over a hundred stories in online and print media.
★ Maintained customer blog and wrote timely posts. Pioneered social media strategy over Twitter and Facebook in 2007 to connect with our community, gather product feedback, uncover trends and develop social media metrics.
I just received the Samsung Chromebook and have been putting it through its paces. Here's a quick writeup of my initial thoughts:
Why a Chromebook?
90% of my work is done in the following applications:
(10% of my work on a monthly basis is done using desktop applications such as Keynote).
As a consultant, I am rarely at one desk all day, often moving between coffee shops, coworking spaces and client offices. I don't have a car, so a lightweight laptop is extremely important to me if I'm carrying it all day. My MacBook Pro feels like such dead weight.
Cost — I initially considered the MacBook Air, but I couldn't justify the price tag. And realizing that I do most of my work online, it didn't seem to make sense.
Product Review
The Samsung Chromebook is $248 for the Wi-Fi version and weights 2.4 pounds (lighter than the MacBook Air)
Now that I've been using the Chromebook for a couple days, I am very happy with my decision to purchase it.
Offline capabilities are great for Google Drive and Email. I may end up switching from Evernote to using Google Drive more for note taking because of this.
It is so light! I just love how portable this device is.
The battery is awesome. I haven't had the chance to let it fully drain, but I'm getting at least 6 hours (probably more), without charging.
Yes, you can download PDFs and files. You'll end up having to view them in Google Drive, but that's fine by me.
It's fast! If I'd purchased a traditional desktop computer for $250 bucks you better believe it would feel sluggish. Not the Chromebook! It's super speedy.
Onto the things that are a little funky:
Why didn't anyone bother to mention they got rid of the CAPS LOCK? If you never use the caps lock, this may not matter to you, but I taught myself to capitalize using this key (weird, I know). I'm begrudgingly using the shift key, and I'll obviously be forced to adapt, but I am not thrilled about this.
Why is the ALT key on the left side of the space bar so freaking huge? What the heck is that about? I keep accidentally pressing it.
Other than these keyboard complaints, I really have nothing bad to say about the keyboard. It appears full sized and is pretty easy to adjust to.
My final gripe is that I have to jump through an extra hurdle to print and I can only use 1Password with read-only access. These aren't dealbreakers, but not being able to write to 1Password is pretty annoying.
Final thoughts
It does take adjusting to doing everything in a browser. But that takes about a day to figure out — and then you're up and running. For $250 I definitely think it's a great value. Is it missing some features? Sure. But for day to day web workers, I think it's a really awesome alternative to your regular laptop.
Heroku is my favorite service to deploy my Rails apps on. It can be a simple joy to use, or it can be a complete nightmare. It's not difficult to deploy to Heroku, but there are a few things you must keep in mind:
1. Make sure your Rails app is located in a top level directory of your git repository. If you try to create an app anywhere else, it will fail to deploy to Heroku.
2. Heroku will not work with SQLite. You need to install Postgres if you're working with Heroku. If you'd like to continue using SQLite in development, that has to be specified in the Gemfile. Ideally, you Gemfile should look like this:
gem 'heroku'
group :development, :test do
gem 'sqlite3′
group :production do
gem 'pg'
3. Once you've updated your Gemfile, run
bundle install.
4. If this is a new repository, you'll need to initialize it in the terminal with
git init.
5. After your repository has been initialized,
git add . and
git commit -m "Your message" .
6. Now we're ready to push to Heroku! You'll want to create your Heroku repo on the Cedar Stack. This is Heroku's default runtime stack and works with Ruby, Rails, Python (and many more) languages. Run the command
heroku create --stack cedar to create your repo.
7. Finally, run
git push heroku master to push your code to heroku. You'll notice that if you've been successful, Heroku gives you the URL in the terminal to visit your app.
If you already have a database in development, remember that isn't going to be uploaded. You'll need to run heroku
heroku run rake db:migrate to setup your database on Heroku.
That's Heroku in a nutshell. If and when you do encounter problems updating Heroku, run
heroku logs to help identify where the problem may lie. Whenever I've failed to deploy successfully to Heroku it's because something is already broken in the app, that I didn't catch in my development environment.
Good luck and please post other questions and Heroku advice in the comments!
One of the biggest challenges newbies to programming face is learning how to ask the right questions to fix problems and overcome challenges. Programming is just full of bugs and without knowing the tools that can help you overcome those challenges, bug fixing can seems like a miserable, infuriating slog.
My favorite debugging tool when working on Rails apps is Pry. It has, in a word, REVOLUTIONIZED my ability to deal with problems in the code and drill down to figure out where pain points lie. If you're not using Pry in your Rails app, here's how to get started:
Add Pry to your Gemfile and specify that you'll be using it for development:
bundle install
Next, move into
config/environments/development.rb file within your rails app and at the bottom of the file tell your app you want to use Pry in development:
Awesome! Now that we've got Pry installed in our Rails app, let's put it to work. In my example, I want to investigate why a piece of code is breaking. Based on the output I see in localhost, I know that there is something wrong with my code around
user.username = auth.info.nickname in my app/models/users.rb file. Username is throwing a NoMethodError, so I'm going to place
binding.pry on the line above where my code is breaking. This will spring pry into action so I can investigate that line further when I relaunch my server.
Restarting the Rails server, recreate the action that causes your program to break. In doing so, you'll notice a couple things: 1) The site will hang 2) The console shows you that Pry is at work and you can now dig down into the broken lines of code to see what might be wrong:
Within the terminal we're now in Pry, so just like IRB, we can begin digging into what problems lie.
In my case, I had forgotten to add Username to my User table, hence the NoMethodError. As you can see in the example above, I have since fixed it.
I'm only scratching the surface of why Pry can do. There's a lot more information their site, along with a great introductory video that will help get you started.
Terminals are basic, kinda ugly and wonderfully utilitarian. If you've ever thought about "tricking out" your terminal, there's only so much you can do from the terminal application preferences pane. Changing the background and you can go all black window on green text, "super1337haxor living in the Matrix" style, but that's as exciting as it gets.
Taking a few more steps, you can transform your terminal into a snazzy window, with awesome colors and welcoming ASCII art. This tutorial is aimed at Mac users that have Homebrew installed. If you're on Linux, I assume you're smart enough to figure it out.
Here's how to go from dull to dazzling in your terminal window:
1. Let's play around a bit. In the terminal, type:
brew install fortune
Once this has installed, in the terminal, type:
Keep running it and see all the awesome fortunes that you'll get!
2. Next we're going to install this awesome program for the terminal called lolcat. This will effectively make anything you type into a beautiful range of colors.
From the terminal, run this command:
brew install lolcat
Once lolcat has installed, try running
fortune | lolcat
Pretty cool, huh!
Let's take it a step further — ASCII ART!!
Sidenote: This stuff is amazing. ASCII art has been around since the dawn of the computer age (or 1966, according to Wikipedia, when Bell Labs' Kenneth Knowlton created the first known ASCII art). Originally used to print out images with characters before printers had the ability to print actual graphics, ASCII art has gone the way of the punch card and is largely relegated to the computer graphics graveyard.
Aside from ASCII art being totally rad, it is mad OG and using it in your terminal as I am about to demonstrate gives you about 1000 internet points. So there.
We're going to be making ASCII art appear in your terminal every time you open up a new window. This is super simple. In fact, the hardest part is going to be deciding what ASCII art to choose. So let's get started.
First, pick out the ASCII image you like. There are tons of resources online. My favorite is http://www.chris.com/ascii/
There is a plethora of amazing ASCII art. Case in point:
You'll want to use your mouse to select the art you like. Copy it and move to the next step.
Next, open up your terminal move to you home directory. Type:
ls -a
You'll notice a bunch of files appear, including a lot of files that are preceded by a dot(.) These are hidden files. Notice you have a file called "
.bash_profile" (on Mac). If you're on Linux (and probably Windows) it's ".bashrc". You need to open up that file in your text editor. I'm using Textmate:
mate .bash_profile
Once you're in .bash_profile, click on the empty space at the bottom of the page and type in this command exactly as written:
read -r -d '' VAR <<'EOF'
Paste in your ASCII art below this command. Don't move it around! Even if it looks weird, just keep it as is.
On the line above below your ASCII art, write:
echo "$VAR" | lolcat
Save your file and then open up a terminal window. You should see your ASCII art in color! If it looks a little wonky, head back into .bash_profile and make minor edits to the ASCII.
Share your art in the comments!
So you want to learn Rails? Well you're in luck. There are a ton of resources online to help you do just that.
At App Academy we stared by reading the monolithic tome of OMGRAILSLEARNEVERYTHING, otherwise known as Michael Hartl's Ruby on Rails Tutorial. Hartl's tutorial is free, completely exhaustive and will definitely have you up and running with a beautiful Rails app. If you're new to programming, Hartl will take you on a deep dive of Test Driven Development, Rails and putting your application on the web. It's awesome, but it's also extremely in depth and probably more than an absolute beginner can grok.
Here's my advice: start with a simple app that you can build in an hour. That both gives you the satisfaction of actually doing something and seeing it work AND help you understand the Rails MVC framework.
Try that a couple times and then spend a week or two with Hartl.
Here's how to get up and running with Rails, from n00b to novice (that's right, novice. Becoming anything more than that is going to take months of experience).
I've structured my advice around increasing order of time and difficulty. You can knock out the first three tutorials in a day. The last two will be more of a time (and brain) commitment:
1. Get down the basics of Ruby. Code School has an awesome and interactive free Ruby tutorial. Go ahead and play with it to learn the basics.
2. Build a URL shortener with Rails. This was a great tutorial and very easy to follow. It goes through the very basics of Rails and will have you up and running with your own URL shortener in about an hour. Warning: It does have a couple typos, so please check out my code on GitHub to see a working version.
3. JumpStartLab has some solid tutorials for learning more about Ruby and/or Rails. I highly recommend checking out the One Day Rails project. You'll be building a blogger clone.
4. [OPTIONAL] Now that you've built that simple URL shortener, head back to Code School and complete their free course called Rails for Zombies. This is still a high level overview of Rails, but it is interactive, so it will test out your skill and help you get a clearer idea of how Rails works. This should take a couple hours to complete.
5. Move onto Rails Guide next. This tutorial may take you the weekend to get through. It's more in depth and you'll build a blog. If you've already done the JumpStartLabs tutorial, this will extend the features you created in that project.
6. If you're still in the mood for more, check out Hartl. His guide is exhaustive. You'll get a lot of information on test driven development (not covered in any of the other tutorials mentioned) and you'll have built up enough basic knowledge to appreciate the level of detail he provides. Best of all, thousands of people have gone through the Hartl tutorial, so if you get lost or something starts mysteriously breaking, you'll likely encounter an answer to your exact problem through a Google search.
7. Now go build something of your own! Good luck and happy Railsing!
We're just starting on our second week at App Academy and I wanted to share some thoughts on the first week.
Days are typically 12 – 15 hours long, with all kinds of coding in between. We started with 20 students and lost 2 (both women) in the first two days. The course is extremely demanding, and the couple days were a huge adjustment. It's a bummer to see people not make it through the "sink or swim" environment.
The first two days we completed Test First Ruby and then moved onto understand API's and building our own program to connect with the BART and Google Maps API. The week was rounded out with a deep dive into rails, which is extending into week two. We've also begun writing our own tests for our rails application, and learning test driven development has been pretty cool!
After forty hours of pair programming, I am unsure of its usefulness. Having pairs work together that have vastly different levels of experience leads to the more experienced driving the whole exercise. On one hand, it's awesome because they can solve all your tough problems and get the project done. On the other hand, it's bad because they can solve all your tough problems and you don't learn by struggling through the problem (something I believe is imperative to learn). I vastly prefer the idea of working on the same project with others, but doing it by myself, going to the group when I need help. That's not the philosophy behind App Academy, but I think that should be taken into consideration for the next course.
My social life has gone into hibernation, considering all the classwork I'm doing, so I hosted a Coding Brunch on Sunday with friends from App Academy and elsewhere. We made waffles, coded and had an awesome time!
I am looking forward to the start of week two. We're switching our hours from 1 – 9pm to 11 – 7pm (yay!) and I'm liking toying around with Rails. We'll be building a URL shortener using Rails this week, so stay tuned for more news on that.
I've been learning Ruby nonstop at App Academy and have noticed some interesting changes happening in my brain. Here are some signs you may be turning into a Ruby developer:
1. Gems are no longer those fancy stones to put in jewelry.
2. Dreaming of hunting down code, slaying arguments and searching for the ultimate treasure — ruby gems!
3. Using while statements and for loops for your everyday life. I often find myself doing this when I'm cooking ("While dinner is cooking, do set the table")
4. Trying to fall asleep by telling yourself:
gem install "sleepytime"
require "sleepytime"
I'll add more to the list as they come!
Quite often in Ruby, you'll notice the same method listed twice, one including an exclamation point(!) at the end and the other not. For example:
Methods that include an exclamation point, such as capitalize are known as dangerous methods. In Ruby speak, that means they will modify the object it's called on. In human speak that means,
"Boyfriend, I will mess you up if you don't know how to use me! I can wheel and deal and blow all a this house down!"
In other words, be careful!
Using the capitalize method as an example, here's the difference:
capitalize Returns a copy of str with the first character converted to uppercase and the remainder to lowercase. The string itself is not modified.
capitalize! Modifies str by converting the first character to uppercase and the remainder to lowercase. You have modified the original string!
Take a look at the output in irb:
Dangerous methods can be real helpers in Ruby, but only you can prevent your code from blowing up, so use them wisely.
Update(7/25/2012): As has been mentioned in the comments here and on Reddit, treating methods with exclamation points as dangerous methods is a good rule of thumb, but does have its exceptions (notably, within ActiveRecord).
From Ruby's official documentation, this is how dangerous methods are described:
Potentially "dangerous" methods (ie methods that modify self or the arguments, exit! etc.) by convention end with exclamation marks. All methods that change their arguments don't end with exclamation marks, though. Array#replace replaces the contents of an array with the contents of another array.
Just because we can sometimes infer that a method might come with a set of "dangerous" consequences, doesn't mean we're free to keep our guard down around regular methods. I appreciated Reddit commenter, external's, advice: "What is a big deal is adopting a mindset that because bang methods change data, non-bang methods don't mutate data or have side effects."
Yesterday marked the first Day of App Academy! Twenty of us programming noobs met in SOMA to start on this grand adventure of becoming iOS developers.
Pair Programming
After a short introduction, we split off into pairs and began to tackle the problem in Test First Ruby. We'll be pair programming the entire 9 weeks we're at App Academy, with one person taking on the role of "Driver" and the other person being the "Navigator". In this arrangement, the driver types in the code, while the navigator reviews it as its being typed and thinks through the problem.
In theory, we were supposed to switch roles every 30 minutes, but in practice the more experienced person in the pair directed the conversation and helped the driver get to the finish line.
Pair programming seems like a pretty cool idea, but it comes with some caveats for beginners.
1) When neither one of the pairs understands how to solve the programming question at hand, the driver/navigator roles seem to lose meaning. Both students need to stop and think about the problem. Roles are more fluid in this case, and I think that's totally cool.
2) More advanced students working with beginners can easily become bored with their role as navigator. They may just want to drive and navigate all on their own. Pair programming really challenges our natural skills and abilities to work with others. That's a good thing, but I think I better understand why Zed Shaw has referred to it as a Forced Pair Programming chain gang. If you don't have the right perspective, it can feel like you're chained to your partner.
Test Driven Development
Our goal for Day 1 and Day 2 of App Academy is to complete the exercises in Test First Ruby. There are a dozen exercises to work through that first that use the notion of test driven development(TDD) to help us learn. The cornerstone of test driven development is this idea of red-green-refactor. Watch your tests fail(red), fix your code and see your tests succeed(green) and move on to the next one(refactor). Here's how it breaks down:
Test First Ruby starts with most of the tests written, but not all of them! So it's our first opportunity to learn how to write unit tests and fix them. I really love this idea. Working with my pairs yesterday I learned some really invaluable tips for how to work through TDD without getting frustrated about seeing red all the time:
Tips to succeed in test driven development:
1. Do the least amount of work just to see the test pass. Once you get the test to pass, move on. Work in small chunks, that way, you'll have a better handle on what's broken, what didn't work and how to fix it.
2. Print to the screen often to figure out if your code is doing what you think it should do. For example:
def translate(s) #split the argument and put them in a new array. #Do something to each word s.split.map do |word| #Define v as the first vowel of each word v = first_vowel(word) word = word.slice(v..-1) + word[0,v] + "ay" p word return word #join them together end.join(" ") end
In that example I've printed to the screen the word so I can see what it looks like and if the program is working as expected. I'm using
p instead of
puts since
p runs inspect on whatever is being "putsed" to the screen. That's useful in debugging since it show you more about what you're doing. Alternatively, I could have also written
puts word.inspect and it would do the same thing.
Class hasn't started yet for Day 2, but I've already got a lot of reading and preparation to do before hitting class.
Do you have any tips for pair programming or test driven development? Please share them in the comments!
I've been making my way through Learn Ruby the Hard Way to prepare for App Academy. Chapter 36 asks us to build our own choose your own adventure game and with that, I decided to build a game around the Cthulhu universe. This was by far the most fun I've had writing a program!
You can check it out on github.
I remember playing Zork a couple weeks ago, another terminal game which has the user explore a universe by typing phrases into the terminal. I got really frustrated with Zork because if the phrase wasn't perfect, the game wouldn't let you advance. But how am I supposed to know what phrase to use?! With that in mind, I decided use the include? method in my functions to check that a specific keyword was input by the player. That way, you could say whatever you wanted, as long as that one, fairly obvious word was included, you'd be able to move forward.
I started simple and would like to iterate on the game, adding more chapters and pushing my programming skills as I go. Right now it's just a simple 20 second game, but if you have an opinion on how our adventurer should proceed through Arkham, let me know!


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The invention relates to a floater-controlled flap valve for the filling pipe of a fuel tank. With valves of this type, the flow cross section of the filling pipe end that projects into the tank is formed by a pipe section, which can be closed off with a flap. The flap is positioned pivoting inside the pipe and extends through the pipe walls with two diametrically opposite arranged bearing journals. Two pivoting arms are formed onto the bearing journals on the outside of the pipe, which are hinged to the floater. The floater is positioned such that it can be displaced in axial direction along the periphery of the pipe section. The floater is lifted up when the fuel level rises. In the process, the pivoting arms are carried along and the flap is accordingly closed. While the flap is closed, the fuel that is pumped through a pump nozzle into the tank quickly rises inside the filling pipe, which then leads to the pump nozzle being shut off.
The fuel tanks used in present-day motor vehicles in most cases have very irregular shapes to allow for an optimum use of the space available inside the vehicle. Accordingly, the space available for installing components inside the fuel tank is frequently very small. A compact, space-saving installation method is therefore generally the goal when arranging components inside a fuel tank. The same holds true for the filling pipe section projecting into the tank or a flap valve.
It is the object of the invention to propose a flap valve of the aforementioned type with reduced structural length, meaning a more compact design.
This object is solved in that the floater, positioned at the end of the pipe section that projects at a slant into the inside space of the tank, is designed such that its lower front, as seen in the assembled state, essentially covers a horizontally extending frontal plane. Floaters for the flap valves in question have a hollow design and are open on the bottom. A floater of this type consequently does not start to swim upward until the liquid level encloses the air volume on the inside. The design according to the invention ensures that the aforementioned air volume is enclosed almost immediately and a liquid displacement can occur during a further rise in the fuel level, as soon as the fuel level reaches the area of the lower front edge region of the floater. If the front edge region of the floater does not have a level design and is not aligned horizontally, the wall areas of the floater are initially submerged into the liquid, without this resulting in a lifting force worth mentioning. On the contrary, the floaters in most cases are made of fuel-resistant polyoxymethylene (POM), a plastic with a higher specific weight than the fuel. These floater wall regions that are not effective for the lifting force not only extend the floater unnecessarily, but also represent a totally ineffective ballast that must be compensated by a corresponding floater volume, meaning the floater length. As a result of the slanted design or slanted arrangement of the floater according to the invention, said floater has a larger frontal surface that cooperates with the fuel level. The larger this surface, the shorter the submerging depth necessary for a predetermined lifting force. A shorter submerging depth with the same lifting force means a clearly improved response sensitivity of the flap valve.
The pivoting arms of the valve flap for the advantageous embodiment according to claim 2 are shorter than half the outside diameter of the pipe section. As a result, a reduced pivoting path is initially achieved for the free ends of the pivoting arms that are movement-connected to the floater. The displacement distance of the floater is accordingly shortened, which in turn favors a more compact design and improves the response sensitivity. More free space is created owing to the fact that the free ends of the pivoting arms do not project over the apex of the peripheral region of the pipe section arranged between the pivoting arms. This free space can be used to enlarge the floater and to arrange the floater as close as possible on the pipe section. An increased cross-sectional surface of the floater in turn means a lower submerging depth and thus a more compact design in longitudinal direction.
The modifications according to claims 3 to 5 make it easier to attach the floater to the pipe section.
The invention is explained further with the aid of the exemplary embodiment shown in the enclosed drawings. Shown are in:
FIG. 1 A view from the side of a pipe section with a floater that is positioned axially thereon.
FIG. 2 A view in the direction of arrow II in FIG. 1
FIG. 3 A view from the side according to FIG. 1, but with the floater in a state prior to the assembly.
FIG. 4 A view from above in the direction of arrow IV in FIG. 1.
FIG. 5 A single floater in a view from the side.
FIG. 6 A perspective view of the floater, in the direction of arrow VI in FIG. 5.
FIG. 7 A longitudinal section through a pipe end attached to a tank wall, with opened valve flap.
FIG. 8 A detail from FIG. 7, showing the pipe end with the valve flap closed.
FIG. 9 A pipe section with removed floater and removed valve flap.
FIG. 10 The view from the side of a valve flap with an opening in the area of its pivoting axis.
A flap valve of the type discussed here essentially consists of a floater 1 and a valve flap 2. These components are attached to a pipe section 3, which forms the filling pipe end that projects into the inside space of a fuel tank 4. One end of the pipe section is provided with a radially outward extending flange 5, which can be used to secure the pipe section to a side wall 6 of the fuel tank 4 (FIG. 7). The pipe section 3 is furthermore designed with an angle, wherein a first longitudinal section 7 extends away from the flange 5 and is slanted less in the fully mounted state than the adjacent longitudinal section 8. A pipe-section shaped support 9 is fitted from the front end onto the longitudinal section 8 and is secured there with the aid of snap-on connections 10. The valve flap 2 is positioned pivoting on the support 9 and the floater 1 is guided such that it can be displaced in axial direction 12.
The floater 1 is a molded plastic part made from polyoxymethylene (POM), which essentially consists of three walls. The wall 13, which represents the outer wall in the fully assembled state, forms the peripheral area of a cylinder-shaped shell. The inside wall 14, which faces the pipe section 3 in the fully assembled state, extends between the longitudinal edges of the outer wall 13. A third wall, namely a frontal wall 15, completes the upper front of the floater, as seen in the fully assembled state. The frontal wall extends in a plane that is perpendicular to the longitudinal axis 16 of the floater. The lower front of the floater 1, on the other hand, is open. The frontal edges of walls 13 and 14 extend essentially in one plane, namely the frontal plane 17. The frontal plane 17 extends at an angle to the longitudinal axis 16. The slant of longitudinal section 8 of pipe section 3 and the bevel of floater 1 are matched, so that in the fully assembled state (FIG. 7), the frontal plane 17 extends essentially in horizontal direction and is thus oriented parallel to the fuel level 18. The inside wall 14 has a central wall region 21 that extends over the complete length of floater 1 and is hollowed out in the shape of a conduit, which is arranged approximately concentric to the outside wall 0.13 or concentric to the center longitudinal axis 19 of the longitudinal section 8. In the fully assembled state, this wall region forms a holding cavity 20, in which a peripheral section of the essentially tube-shaped support 9 is embedded. The wall regions 23, which respectively extend from the central wall region that forms the holding cavity 20 in radial direction toward the outside and toward the longitudinal edges 22 of outside wall 13, extend in one plane 24. This plane extends parallel to the longitudinal axis 16 of floater 1 or, in the fully assembled state, parallel to the pivoting axis 25 of valve flap 2 (FIGS. 2, 5). The end of wall region 23 that faces the frontal plane 17 forms a slanted section 26, which projects from its plane. The central wall region 21 is formed onto the inward-pointing edge of the slanted section while the outside wall 13 is formed onto the outside edge. The edge 27 that passes between the side edges extends in the frontal plane 17. As a result of the above-described design, the floater 1 is provided with an enlarged frontal region that increases the lifting force.
Respectively two wall ridges 28, 29 project approximately at right angles from the wall regions 23 and extend in the direction of longitudinal axis 16. With the edge facing the frontal plane 17, the wall ridges 29 are formed onto the slanted sections 26. The two wall ridges 28, 29 between them enclose a holding slot 30 in the form of a blind hole.
The wall ridge 29 is longer than the wall ridge 28, wherein the excess ridge section forms an end stop 32 that cooperates with pivoting arms 33, which are formed onto the side of valve flap 2. At the end of wall region 23, which is located opposite the slanted sections 26, two guide ridges 34 are formed on that project at a right angle from the plane for these wall regions. The inside areas of these guide ridges, which face each other, are provided with two projections 35 that are arranged at an axial distance to each other. A guide groove 36 is inserted into the bottom of the holding cavity 20 and extends in the direction of longitudinal axis 16. In the region of frontal plane 17, the central wall region 21 projects in the form of diametrically opposite arranged longitudinal ridges 37 into the longitudinal groove 36. The longitudinal ridges 37 here extend in the direction of longitudinal axis 16. The tops of these ridges are aligned with the top of the central wall region 21 that adjoins on the side.
The front 38 of support 9, which points away from the longitudinal section 8, is provided with a slant that matches approximately the slant on the floater 1. A guide rail 39 with T-shaped cross section is formed onto the peripheral area of support 9 that faces the floater 1 in the assembled state. The guide rail extends away from the slanted frontal edge and is approximately twice as long as the distance 67 for displacing the floater 1. The guide rail 39 operates jointly with the guide groove 36 and, in particular, with the region that is narrowed as a result of the longitudinal ridges 37. FIG. 2 in particular shows that the guide rail 39 is inserted form-fittingly, with play, into the narrowed section of guide groove 36, such that the floater 1 can be displaced in axial direction 12. On the side, on the end of support 9 that is facing away from the front 38, respectively one guide rail 40 with approximately square cross section is formed on. In the fully assembled state, these guide rails engage in the1 between the two projections 35 on the guide webs 34 of floater 1.
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Two diametrically opposite arranged insertion slots 42 extend from the front 38 of support 9 in axial direction 12. The blind end of the insertion slots 42 is expanded to form a circular bearing eye 43. In the fully assembled state, the bearing eyes 43 hold the bearing journals 44 (FIGS. 2, 10) that are formed onto the sides of valve flap 2. The pivoting arms 33 are formed radially outward onto the bearing journals. The free end of pivoting arms 33 is provided with peg-shaped carriers 45 on the outside, which extend through the holding slots 30 on the floater 1. The bearing journals 44 have a plate-shaped base 46, with which they are formed onto the side of valve flap 2. The bearing journals 44 that are formed onto the plane 47 of base 46 have a square cross section (see FIG. 10) and a width that corresponds to the diameter of the plate-shaped base 46. The width 48 of bearing journals 44 in this case corresponds approximately to the clear width 49 of the insertion slots 52. The plane for bearing journals 44 extends parallel to the longitudinal extension of pivoting arms 33. The valve flap 2 is designed in such a way that its plane 50 forms an obtuse angle α with the pivoting arms 33.
The valve flap 2 and the floater 1 are secured on the support 9 as follows. Starting from the front 38, the valve flap in the position as shown in FIG. 10 is initially fitted with its flattened bearing journals 44 into the insertion slots 42. At the end of this insertion movement, the bearing journals 44 extend through the bearing eyes 43. The valve flap then rests against an end stop 52 on the inside wall of support 9. The valve flap position shown in FIG. 10 is secured in this way on the inside of support 9. To facilitate the insertion of the bearing journals 44 into the insertion slot, the peripheral half of the frontal side 38 that is facing away from the guide rail 39 is slanted less, so as to form stop edges 53 on the other peripheral half The bearing journals 44 are fitted with their flat sides against these stop edges 53 and are then pushed into the guide slots 42. The floater is then fitted onto the longitudinal section 8, wherein the guide rail 39 of support 9 rests inside the guide groove 36 of the floater. In the pre-assembly position shown in FIG. 3, the guide ridges 34 rest on support projections 54 that are formed onto the side of the support. Flexible tongues 55 are formed onto the support projections 54 and extend with a slanted section 56 toward the guide rails 40. The wall ridges 28 shown in FIG. 3 are also provided with a slanted overrun 57, which slightly and elastically deforms the pivoting arms 33 in the direction of arrow 58. These pivoting arms push the valve flap 2 against the end stop 53. In the event that the floater 1 is moved further in the direction of arrow 59, starting with the pre-assembly position shown in FIG. 3, the guide ridges 34 with their projections 35 are pushed onto the guide rails 40. In the process, the projection 35a that is arranged at the free end of the guide ridges 34 elastically deforms the flexible tongues 55 in the direction of arrow 60. After the projection 35 a has passed the flexible tongue 55, the tongue snaps back to its starting position, shown in FIG. 3, and axially secures the floater 1. During this movement of fitting on the floater 59, the free ends 62 of the pivoting arms hit against the end stop 32 on the wall ridge 29. The slanted overrun 57 at the same time disengages from the pivoting arms 33 or their carriers 45, so that the carriers 45 snap into the holding slots 30 as a result of elastic resetting forces. In the final assembly position, the floater 1 occupies approximately the position shown in FIG. 1. This movement for fitting on the floater 1 is limited by end stops 63 that are formed onto the guide rails 40. On one side of the support 9, a stop bracket 64 is formed on near the bearing eye 43 (FIGS. 1 and 3). The stop bracket 64 is positioned such that it is only a short distance from the bearing end 65 of the associated pivoting arm 33. The bearing end 65 a (FIG. 2) of the opposite arranged bearing arm 33 a is extended. The valve flap therefore cannot be mounted in such a way that the position of pivoting arms 33 and 33 a is reversed because in the reversed position the pivoting arm 33 a hits the stop bracket 65 with its extended bearing end 65 a and the valve flap cannot be inserted properly into the support.
During the operation, the floater 1 assumes the position shown in FIG. 7 if the fuel filling level is low. The valve flap 2 is opened. If fuel is added via the filling pipe, the fuel level 18 rises and finally reaches the level shown in FIG. 7. As soon as the fuel level reaches the front side of floater 1 or the frontal plane 17, the gas volume 66 inside the floater is enclosed. The higher the fuel level 18 rises, the larger the displaced fuel volume and, accordingly, the lifting power. Once the fuel level has reached approximately the level 18 a, the floater is in the extreme upper position, in which the valve flap 2 is closed (FIG. 8). Owing to the relatively short pivoting arms 33, the floater 1 then covers only a very short displacement distance 67 (FIG. 7). This displacement distance can be taken directly from FIGS. 7 and 8, which represent an exemplary embodiment on a scale of 1:1. The distance amounts to only approximately 1.2 cm.
1 floater
2 valve flap
3 pipe section
4 fuel tank
5 flange
6 wall
7 longitudinal section
8 longitudinal section
9 support
10 snap-in connection
12 axial direction
13 outside wall
14 inside wall
17 frontal wall
16 longitudinal axis
17 frontal plane
18 fuel level
19 center longitudinal axis
20 holding cavity
21 central wall region
22 longitudinal edge
23 wall region
24 plane
25 pivoting axis
26 slanted section
27 edge
28 wall ridge
29 wall ridge
30 holding slot
32 end stop
33 pivoting arm
34 guide web
35 projection
36 guide groove
37 longitudinal ridge
38 frontal side
39 guide rail
40 insertion slot
43 bearing eye
44 bearing journal
45 carrier
46 base
47 planar surface
48 width
49 clear width
50 plane
52 end stop
53 support projection
55 flexible tongue
56 slanted section
57 slanted overrun
58 arrow
59 arrow
60 arrow
62 free end
63 end stop
64 stop bracket
65 bearing end
66 gas volume
67 displacement distance
|Cited Patent
|Filing date
|Publication date
|Apr 7, 1941
|Feb 8, 1944
|Phillips Petroleum Co
|Filling device
|Jan 5, 1994
|Jan 17, 1995
|Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
|Fuel inlet device for a fuel tank
|Oct 17, 1997
|Jan 11, 2000
|Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
|Fuel tank
|Citing Patent
|Filing date
|Publication date
|Feb 22, 2006
|Dec 30, 2008
|Honeywell International Inc.
|Method and apparatus for accurately delivering a predetermined amount of fuel to a vehicle
|U.S. Classification
|141/198, 220/86.2, 141/301
|International Classification
|Cooperative Classification
|European Classification
|Feb 12, 2001
|Jun 27, 2005
|Fee payment
Year of fee payment: 4
|Jul 27, 2009
|Maintenance fee reminder mailed
|Jan 15, 2010
|Lapse for failure to pay maintenance fees
|Mar 9, 2010
|Expired due to failure to pay maintenance fee
Effective date: 20100115


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Apr 18 2012
64 mins
Michael Hakeem, Manager of Talent Attraction and Staffing Operations and Tom Steele, Product Marketing for Success Factors
How Novo Nordisk Transformed its Talent Acquisition Strategy
Today's world of talent acquisition looks significantly different than it did even a year ago. Recruitment 3.0 brings a new focus to passive candidates, requires building engaged, two-way, free-conversation-based, transparent communities and is anchored by components such as employer branding and marketing. Central to Recruitment 3.0 is the philosophy that everyone is a potential candidate.
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Acing Your Next Quarterly Business Review
Apr 10 2012
31 mins
Jon Greene, Director Client Services and Jess McCoss, Client Strategy Director
The latest webinar in the Jobs2web educational series is how to conduct a Quarterly Business Review. Designed especially for a client's leadership team, this 30-minute webinar will give you an inside look on how to effectively measure and analyze your recruitment marketing efforts. This webinar will teach you how to report on:
- Quality of your candidate experience
- Metrics around candidate acquisition
- Effectiveness of social recruitment programs
- Peer performance and industry best practices
- Performance against internal KPIs
This Quarterly Business Review approach is successful because it ensures you will get the most out of your current technology as well as provide you with the tools and information to hold your vendors accountable for their performance.
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Finding Better: It's Time to Diversify Your Job Marketing
Mar 15 2012
45 mins
Tom Steele, Jobs2web Product Marketer
Did you know that more than 300 million people use Google to search for jobs each month? Are you getting your fair share of this job candidate traffic? And why doesn't your career site or your jobs show up in the Google results?
In this 30 minute webinar, Tom Steele, Product Marketer, will walk you through how you can leverage the search engines to drive high quality targeted talent directly to your career site - even when you don't have open jobs - and begin to cut your reliance on (and budget for!) sub-optimal sources.
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Measuring Your Apply Chain
Jan 31 2012
63 mins
Doug Berg, Chief Recruiting Geek, SuccessFactors (Formerly Jobs2web)
In this webinar Doug Berg, Chief Recruiting Geek of SuccessFactors (formerly Jobs2web), will share with you how to measure all of your recruitment marketing initiatives and key performance indicators that you should be reporting on, along with sharing best/worst practices he's seeing in the marketplace (careful, he might show your company's career site as a bad example).
Doug will also share industry wide stats from the Jobs2web client network including the applicant to hire ratios from the different channels online (job boards, search engines, social networks, mobile apps, etc.) and which ATS systems are best for candidate conversions.
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Nov 10 2011
47 mins
Doug Berg, Jobs2web Chief Recruiting Geek
Did you miss Doug Berg's Measuring Your Apply Chain presentation at last week's ERE Innovation Summit held at Facebook Headquarters? No worries.
By popular demand Doug Berg, Jobs2web's Chief Recruiting Geek will give not only a repeat performance but share fresh content and insight to the following key topics:
- Why you must optimize and measure your sourcing spend
- De-mystifying passive candidate capture and cultivation
- How to get real ROI from job boards and aggregators
- Rights and wrongs of mobile recruiting
- Triple your yield on campaigns and events
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Acing Your Next Quarterly Business Review
Oct 19 2011
28 mins
Jon Greene, VP Client Services, Jobs2web and Linda Moeller, Client Strategy Director, Jobs2web
The latest webinar in the Jobs2web educational series is how to conduct a Quarterly Business Review. Designed especially for an organization's leadership team, this 30-minute webinar will give you an inside look on how to effectively measure and analyze your recruitment marketing efforts. This webinar will teach you how to report on:
• Quality of your candidate experience
• Metrics around candidate acquisition
• Effectiveness of social recruitment programs
• Peer performance and industry best practices
• Performance against internal KPIs
This Quarterly Business Review approach is successful because it ensures you will get the most out of your current technology as well as provide you with the tools and information to hold your vendors accountable for their performance.
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Why Talent Communities Make Your Social Recruiting Strategy Better
Oct 6 2011
47 mins
Doug Berg, Jobs2web Founder and Chief Recruiting Geek
In a LinkedIn world where public networks are dominating the news in the recruiting industry, how can your company develop its own private network of talent to target? Whether it is managing your subset of LinkedIn contacts (recruiter and employee networks) or capturing passive candidates on your career site it is now more important than ever to have an automated and measurable recruiting strategy that drives results.
Creating your own proprietary talent community is one of the most effective ways to make your social networking and CRM strategy better. Where do you begin? Doug Berg, Jobs2web Chief Recruiting Geek and Tom Steele, Jobs2web Solutions consultant will team together to provide clarification on the role that a talent community should play in recruiting and share real client talent community success stories. Topics covered include:
• How a talent community is different than a CRM
• Building talent pipelines within your talent community
• Capturing your social contacts (and your recruiter's contacts) in your talent community
• Utilizing your talent community for mobile and event contacts
• Capturing passive candidates and career site visitors
• How a talent community helps you multiply results from all recruiting channels
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Recruit Better - Branding
Sep 27 2011
2 mins
Michael Long
Recruit Better - Branding
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Introduction to Talent Community Marketing
Sep 8 2011
24 mins
Peter Baskin, VP, Marketing and Chad Frank, Product Manager, Jobs2web
In our 3.1 release of the Recruitment Marketing Platform, we launched a new module called Talent Community Marketing.
This webinar will specifically focus on this powerful new tool that gives recruiters the ability to create unique email campaigns targeted to a specific group of talent community members. This is a great way to leverage your talent community and target candidates coming to you from competitors, a specific geography or for a hard-to-fill position.
Please join members of our Product Strategy team as they talk about this new tool. Can't make the date? Register anyway so we can share the recording with you.
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Why a Talent Supply Chain Will Make Your CFO Salivate
Aug 31 2011
39 mins
Steve Shaffer, COO/CFO, Jobs2web and Tom Steele, Solutions Consultant, Jobs2web
In our brave new world, C-level executives are realizing more than ever how talent and revenue growth are directly linked. This means that those of you in a leadership recruiting role have an incredible opportunity to drive high impact organizational value in a quantifiable way.
Join Steve Shaffer, COO/CFO, and Tom Steele, Solutions Consultant, of Jobs2web for this 30-minute webcast as they share their tips on creating metrics your leadership team will appreciate.
• What metrics have biggest impact for executives including:
o Optimized media spending
o Recruiter efficiency
o Time to fill
• Measuring impact of talent supply chain limitations
• Creating your own talent supply chain
Bottom line - revenue growth and optimized talent supply chain go hand in hand. Don't miss out on this webinar which will help you moved the needle on talent supply chain metrics and enable you to measure, optimize and impact key financial and business drivers of your organization.
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Acing Your Next Quarterly Business Review
Aug 31 2011
31 mins
Jon Greene, VP, Client Services, Jobs2web and Linda Moeller, Client Strategy Director, Jobs2web
The latest webinar in the Jobs2web educational series is how to conduct a Quarterly Business Review. Designed especially for a client's leadership team, this 30-minute webinar will give you an inside look on how to effectively measure and analyze your recruitment marketing efforts. This webinar will teach you how to report on:
• Quality of your candidate experience
• Metrics around candidate acquisition
• Effectiveness of social recruitment programs
• Peer performance and industry best practices
• Performance against internal KPIs
This Quarterly Business Review approach is successful because it ensures you will get the most out of your current technology as well as provide you with the tools and information to hold your vendors accountable for their performance.
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Rackspaces Career Site Transformation
Aug 30 2011
38 mins
Michael Long, Head of Culture Branding, Rackspace
Michael Long, Head of Culture Branding, Rackspace will be our special guest. Michael will provide an in-depth look at Rackspace's own transformation of their recruiting strategy. He will highlight what changes he made to the Rackspace career site to move it from a static environment to a candidate focused website with interactive elements all while maintaining a strong brand identity.
Topics include:
• Why Rackspace saw a need to transform its recruiting strategy
• The evolution of Rackspace's recruitment brand strategy
o Multiple Channel Marketing
o Social Media Integration
o Career Site Functionality
• Diversifying and Broadening Your Reach
• How to become a change agent within your organization
o Winning internal support to make a strategy change
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Interactive Media Management Strategy
Aug 30 2011
34 mins
Jobs2web Interactive Media Manager Ryan Affolter and Client Strategy Director Linda Moeller
Please join us for our Client Interactions Webinar of 2011 - Interactive Media Management Strategy – Maximize Your ROI in Job Board Spend, Pay Per Click & Targeted Hard-to-Fill Campaigns
In this 30 min session, Interactive Media Manager Ryan Affolter and Client Strategy Director Linda Moeller will take attendees through the strategies of interactive media spend. This overview is great for new users to get a high level understanding of Jobs2web targeted media management capabilities and for the experienced corporate recruiting media buyers who want insight into Jobs2web's tips, tricks and strategies.
Topics covered include:
- How Jobs2web can manage all media channels including your SEM/PPC and paid social media channels
- Leveraging Jobs2web dashboard data, media reporting and advanced analytics to measure ROI
- Target approaches like diversity, college recruiting and hard to fill
- Utilizing Jobs2web to wire up/power and manage your job boards
- How Jobs2web can be your interactive media buying Agency of Record to save even more
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Real Data that Breaks the Recruiting Myths
Aug 29 2011
37 mins
Steve Shaffer, COO, Jobs2web and Phil Schrader, Manager, Analytics, Jobs2web
Based on 14.3M visitors, 1.3M applications and 26,000 hires we know that:
• On average it takes 826 visitors to your site for a hire
• Candidate from search engines and your own career site take half as many
• Job boards and aggregators attract more active candidates
• The data doesn't always support the hype around social network recruiting
In this 30-minute webinar with Jobs2web Product Expert and Evangelist Steve Shaffer (also COO of Jobs2web) and Phil Schrader, Manager, Analytics, Jobs2web you will learn:
• Which channels perform best
• If social networks produce higher quality candidates
• The three essential steps to measuring recruitment marketing
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Its All About the Customer - AKA the Candidate
Aug 29 2011
50 mins
Stacy Van Meter, Social Media and Talent Community Manager at Deluxe Corporation
In this 30-minute webinar, Stacy Van Meter, Social Media and Talent Community Manager at Deluxe Corporation will discuss the transformation that has occurred in the Deluxe internal recruiting process:
• Calling job seekers "customers" not candidates
• Adding social media into the mix of recruiting
• Educating people about the Deluxe brand
• Working hard to excite internal and external "customers"
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Getting the most out of Indeed and Simply Hired using Jobs2web
Aug 29 2011
8 mins
Tom Steele, Solutions Consultant, Jobs2web
Getting the most out of Indeed and Simply Hired using Jobs2web
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Aug 29 2011
9 mins
Advanced Analytics Presentation
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Aug 29 2011
10 mins
Advanced Analytics Demo
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Your Career Site Style Versus Substance
Aug 29 2011
35 mins
Tom Steele, Solutions Consultant, Jobs2web
• 92% Drop-off Rate
• 4% Apply Rate
• No measurement capabilities
• Poor candidate experience
• No passive candidate capture
Does this describe the state of your career site today? Many companies have spent an enormous amount of time and money on their career site only to produce lower quality candidates, with no way of measuring source effectiveness and no definitive call to action.
The best employment marketers in the recruiting industry today - ADP, Rackspace, Life Time Fitness, Bon Secours Health System, and Hanover Insurance understand the value of substance versus style. Join us for an innovative look at what these companies and others have done to create a world class career site experience.
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Aug 24 2011
2 mins
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More people are watching network programs online. How are you adapting messages to this emerging trend?
Two weeks ago I was in the U.S. for business and woke up at 3 a.m. cursing the jet lag. After clearing my emails, I decided to catch up on the 100th episode of The Big Bang Theory on my laptop. In doing so, I joined the growing ranks of people watching network programs online.
According to Nielsen, approximately 70 percent of global online consumers watch online video, with Asia-Pacific leading the way (How People Watch: A Global Nielsen Consumer Report, 2010). The interesting fact is, globally, 57 percent of respondents report having watched online video on their computer at work. This is especially relevant among younger users who are used to accessing content round the clock (big alarm bell from employers!).
The trends above present a wonderful opportunity to de-couple the content from the platform and explore ways to tailor messages to the audience's media consumption habits. Let me share a few examples to make this concept come to life:
As online video approaches ubiquity and mobile video continues to grow, especially in Asia, the challenge for marketers is to think "platform neutral" and "customer-centric." This change in mindset will be important as consumers gain more power.
Mandeep has over thirteen years experience of building brands with blue-chip organizations like Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer across FMCG & Medical Device categories. His latest assignment is to launch a newly acquired medical technology start-up business across Asia-Pacific.
Mandeep is a recognized expert in integrating emerging media to drive business results. In 2007, he led the launch of one of the first branded apps on Facebook. The app was a finalist at Cannes and won the highest recognition for marketing excellence in J&J. In 2009, he pioneered the launch of the first iPhone app in J&J, which was featured in the Sydney Morning Herald as an example of innovation.
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