Month: November 2022

As you may already know, Power BI is not a report-authoring tool only. Indeed, it is much more than that. Power BI is an all-around data platform supporting many aspects you’d expect from such a platform. You can ingest the data from various data sources, transform it, model it, visualise and share it with others. Read more about what Power BI is here.

One of the key aspects of users’ experience in Power BI is their ability to collaborate in creating and sharing content, making it an easy-to-use and convenient platform. But the convenience comes with a cost of having a lot of shared content in large organisations raising concerns about the content’s quality and trustworthiness. It would be hard, if not impossible, to identify the quality of the contents without a mechanism to identify the quality of the contents. Content endorsement is the answer to this.

In this series

Giant Biogene Holding, a China skincare products supplier that listed at the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on Nov. 4, has raised the equivalent of $10 million though the sale of 3.39 million over-allotment shares at HK$24.30, or approximately $3.11, each, the company said in a filing on Sunday.

The sale added to the HK$495.8 million Giant raised ahead of the start of public trading. Giant lost 7% and traded at HK$25 at Hong Kong Stock Exchange as of noon today, valuing the stake held by Giant co-founder and executive director Fan Daidi at the equivalent of $2 billion.

Fan, 56, is also the chief scientific officer and dean of the Institute of Biomedical Research of Northwest University in Xi’an. She holds a minority stake in Xi’an Triangle

My weekend blog post routine includes posting links to a handful of tools or great content I ran across during the week.

• Vadoo – is a video hosting platform that helps brands and creators to engage and grow their audiences by uploading, recording, and sharing videos with just one click.
• Universe – is an immersive EdTech solution where educators and students can simulate a real classroom experience online. They can debate ideas freely with a 3D audio feature, maintain high attention levels with breakout rooms and custom-made quizzes, and drive engagement by rewarding students with points.
• Plask – is an AI tool that transforms videos of people into animated online characters in seconds. Just record yourself, drop the video into the platform and make the final edits to your animation. 

These are my weekend favs; I would love to hear about some of yours – Tweet me @ducttape

If you

Ever since the draw for the 2022 World Cup placed England and the United States in the same group, the respective head coaches, Gareth Southgate and Gregg Berhalter, have revealed a mutual respect and working relationship.

Though this won’t end when the two teams meet on the Friday after thanksgiving, on the pitch, between the players, it is likely to be a much less amiable affair than it might be on the touchline between the coaches.

There are players on both sides who won’t have time for niceties

Marketing Podcast with Debbie Howard

In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interview Debbie Howard. Debbie is the co-founder and CEO of Senior Living SMART, a full-service marketing agency focused exclusively on the senior housing and care industry. Debbie is also a proud member of the DTM network for the last 3 years.

Key Takeaway:

A major challenge many businesses face is trying to find ways to differentiate and scale. And in order to do that, it starts with having a proven process and systems that works. In this episode, Debbie Howard shares how licensing the Duct Tape Marketing system gave her business the runway and framework to grow, scale, and thrive in her industry.

Questions I ask Debbie Howard:

• [1:31] How did you get to where you are now?
• [3:36] As anybody with aging parents will probably tell you certainly, senior living is a really emotional

When Knute Rockne immigrated to America as a child from Norway, he did not speak English or understand American football. When he died, he was the country’s most famous college football coach, and the president, religious leaders and Notre Dame football fans mourned his passing.

Knute Rockne was born in Norway in 1888. His father first immigrated to America alone, a common practice. In 1893, his father sent for Knute and Knute’s mother and two sisters. The family settled in Chicago. “Like many immigrant fathers, Lars Rockne didn’t know quite what to make of his son’s athletic ambitions,” writes Jerry Brondfield, author of Rockne: The Coach, the Man, the Legend. “Besides, at age 13, Knute was the smallest boy in

It was a perfect evening for St. Louis CITY SC, perhaps with the one exception that it was their opponent that scored all the goals at the opening of CITYPARK Stadium. Bayer Leverkusen won the game easily 3-0 thanks to goals by Callum Hudson-Odoi (36’) and Adam Hlozek (44’ & 51’).

Even though St. Louis CITY SC did not to get to score in their first match at their brand-new facility, the opening can still be considered a success. After all, 22,500 fans came out to braze the cold temperatures and even when the game was decided fans stuck around to celebrate the occasion.

“Let’s put it in perspective,” St. Louis CITY SC 2 head

Marketing Podcast with Becky Blades

In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interview Becky Blades. Becky is an entrepreneur, writer, artist, and philosopher of creative, adventurous living. Since selling her first company, an award-winning public relations firm, Becky has studied what she has coined “stARTistry,” the art of creative initiative. She’s also the author of a book — Start More Than You Can Finish: A Creative Permission Slip to Unleash Your Best Ideas.

Key Takeaway:

Becky Blades offers a powerful new mindset which is: acting on more ideas makes us happier – and reveals our highest creativity. For those of us entrepreneurs who may feel that our plate is already full, this idea to start more than you can finish might seem counterintuitive. However, Becky shares her process for mastering the art of the start which will help you unleash your best ideas and create more.