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A fresh look at customer satisfaction with online retail

0 Comments Published by les December 30th, 2008 in Uncategorized.

In terms of customer satisfaction, the top 40 online retailers as a whole did respectably well this holiday season. However, as ForeSee Results, which conducted the study, breaks out the numbers, the findings suggest that more than one-third of e-retail sites actually performed worse this year than in the 2007 holiday season. And, according to [...]

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Celebrate the Common Ground Jan. 17 with Plan-B, SLAC, SB Dance, and Ririe Woodbury Dance Company

0 Comments Published by les December 28th, 2008 in Communication, Community Dialogue, Current Events, Performing Arts, Politics, Salt Lake City, Theater.

Several of Salt Lake City’s most prominent arts groups are joining forces with Equality Utah to kick off a broad campaign to urge the Utah Legislature to pass the six-point Common Ground Initiative which seeks to formalize essential domestic rights for the state’s LGBT community. Plan-B Theatre Company, SB Dance, Salt Lake Acting Company (SLAC) [...]

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Ford’s modest PR coup in auto bailout story has solid leveraging potential

0 Comments Published by les December 23rd, 2008 in Uncategorized.

The Big 3 automakers hardly shined in terms of public perception during their recent Washington foray for bailout funds but Ford recently seems to have scored a modest PR coup in deferring its option to tap into the $9 billion line of credit it secured during the bailout deal. In the Twitter universe, the decision [...]

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Plan-B Theatre, Utah AIDS Foundation stage timely reading of ‘The Normal Heart’ ---
Editor’s Note: Mark Alvarez kindly provides some follow-up commentary to the reading of Larry Kramer’s work The Normal Heart staged by Plan-B Theatre and the Utah AIDS Foundation. In 1985, Kramer’s work clearly laid out the experiences of the earliest days of the AIDS crisis. Stark and brutal in themes, the play also faced down [...]
SLC filmmaker Andrew James finds a hopeful oasis in Detroit’s blighted landscape ---
‘It’s a war of little battles. The residents fight by lighting their yards, videotaping drug deals, harassing scrappers and chasing off thieves. Their enemy attacks in shocking ways. Like taking over the homes of bedridden old people. Like recruiting kids as dope-house spotters and runners. Like killing people’s dogs.’ – Detroitblogger John, Metro Times, 2010 [...]
Why Sandstrom’s proposed illegal immigration enforcement act is ‘Arizona Light’ ---
Editor’s Note: Mark Alvarez, a regular correspondent lays out in concise, terse, brilliant form Stephen Sandstrom’s latest foray into making legislation that is ridiculously untenable and intellectually embarrassing. By the way, readers looking to make some intelligible sense of the mindset of Sandstrom and countless other elected officials on this particular issue, please consider Peter [...]
Pride redux: another Latino step forward ---
Editor’s Note: The following is a great piece by Mark Alvarez, our resident contributor who also is an attorney and a frequent commentator on immigration issue. Who says Latinos are slow for freedom? Argentina now has marriage equality. On Wednesday, Luis Majul wrote in his column (Spanish version) for the Argentine daily La Nación: The [...]
‘The Empress’, ‘X-ing’, ‘DemiUrge Emesis’ take top honors at Utah Arts Festival’s Fear No Film ---
Twelve awards were announced today in the Fear No Film portion of the Utah Arts Festival, including a Grand Jury Prize, Utah Short Film of The Year, Fear No Filmmaker Award, three honorable mentions, and the best film in each of six of seven categories around which the film festival was organized. The Empress by [...]