Here’s a short list of cybersecurity awards, mostly US-based but we included a couple over in the UK. This is a cheat sheet “lite” because it lacks contact info. Still, the info provided will get you started.
This “cheat sheet lite” lists URLs of award opportunities for CEOs. The juice may not be worth the squeeze in that the national opportunities are in obscure titles, and also may involve pay-to-play considerations not readily apparent.
Fast Company’s longest-running franchise, Most Innovative Companies (MIC), has made FC a lot of money since 2008. Candidates pay to apply, with no guarantee they will make the grade.
We updated this ESG cheat sheet with fresh targets (originally published Aug. 2021). It now includes 13 names. Unfortunately, the cheat sheet is still a mishmash of investor edit, IT edit and “green” edit.
Fast Company seeks applicants for its upcoming Most Innovative Companies issue, due March 2022. FC this month held briefings to help prospective applicants shape their approach. Below is a summary of one session based on notes taken by an SWMS subscriber who attended.
Do you have a list of awards? Now you do. Your clients hope you do. They want to win something, to set themselves apart from the competition. Ours is a living list of 51 awards programs spanning Tier 1s to verticals. Which are we missing? Please let us know.
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Former NYT reporter and Google Cloud EIC Quentin Hardy also interviewed Eric Savitz about his career and move to GM. Good reading.
The UK-based newsletter company called Trending Now uses AI to scrape what’s trending across 27 areas of B2B. Press Gazette has additional detail. The company employs ten, none of whom are journalists (by traditional definition).
The full union membership needs to ratify it on July 24, but it looks like no editors can be laid off or suffer a salary cut if the publication goes big in its use of generative AI. More detail here from Neiman.
Goldman Sachs took 32 pages to say pretty much that. The media business may turn out to be an outlier, an industry perfectly suited to synthetic, multilingual words, sounds and images at scale. As for everyone else, well, the global consultancies will learn the truth first because they have rushed to monetize Gen AI — they aren’t yet succeeding.
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