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Part 1 of 2: The End Of The Sponsored Blog Era
April 26, 2017
“There should be a presumption that media is misleading unless it’s been properly identified and labeled in advance,” he said. April 26th, 2017 article Branded content regulation recommended for parliamentary review, as advertiser pressure is posed as a remedy for fake news By Katie Deighton According to the above article that appeared in the April 26th issue […]
It is time for procurement to come of age by Jon Hansen
August 20, 2015
“When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.” On August 31st this year, we will no longer be accepting new service provider sponsors for the Procurement Insights and Procurement Insights European Union […]
Martha Stewart’s comment that “Bloggers Are Not Experts” is a case of delivering the right message but using the wrong standards by Jon Hansen
October 17, 2013
“Bloggers are writing recipes that aren’t tested, aren’t necessarily very good or are copies of things that really good editors have created and done. Bloggers create a kind of …umm…popularity but they are not the experts. We have to understand that.” – Martha Stewart Nothing beats a good dust-up to get the heart pumping and […]
More than 6 years after my Dangerous Myths post, Jason Busch admits that he kind of got it wrong (Part 1 of 2) by Jon Hansen
June 19, 2013
“I spent five years at FreeMarkets before launching Spend Matters and covering the market as a journalist and analyst . . . I’m a guilty party in terms of reverse auctions and foisting them on suppliers . . . I am also a proponent of them as well, but as you’ll see in our thinking […]
The First Procurement Insights Post . . . Five Years Later Were My Observations Right?
October 26, 2012
Editor’s Note: As we quickly approach my 1,000th Procurement Insights blog post – we are with today’s submission at 995, I thought that I would share with you the very first post from May 18th, 2007. The topic that I tackled was the movement away from ERP/IT-centric e-procurement initiatives and the effect on buyers, sellers […]
As I approach my 1,000th Procurement Insights blog post the question remains . . . why blog?
October 25, 2012
1,000 blog posts . . . well actually as of right now and excluding today’s post, 993. When I started the Procurement Insights blog back in May 2007 I never had what you would say a grand plan. Seth Godin once said that he blogs because he can think of no other medium through which […]
Virginia’s eProcurement Bureau Director to provide the client point of view with a regular column in the Procurement Insights Blog
August 28, 2012
The first time I had the pleasure of talking with Bob Sievert back in August 2007 was when he contacted me regarding a then recent post titled The Ariba Interviews: Re-engineering the Future of On-Demand? After introducing himself and sharing with me a brief overview of Virginia’s eVA initiative, Bob asked if I would be interested […]
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15 Years Ago Today I Started The Procurement Insights Blog – Here Are My Followers’ Top 3 All-Time Favorite Posts
May 18, 2022
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It seems like yesterday I launched the Procurement Insights blog. Today we celebrate 15 years of researching and writing for a great profession.