I was trying to find a place I could buy some Augustiner Oktoberfest for this fall and I cam across a site called ratebeer.com. Apparently they don’t know much about German beer. They classify Augustiner, which is the oldest brewery in Munich city limits, as a Dortmunder Helles. Which is clearly wrong as first of all it is from Munich. Beer in Germany is very regional and the brewers from Munich and Dortmund would be very offended at such a classification. To make it even worse they call it a “light beer”! Like it’s some kind of Coors lite type! I think they need to do some more research. If you can read German here is a great entry from Wikipedia:
Rain, rain go away… don’t come back another day..
Man I didn’t realize how good the weather actually has this summer. The past few days of rain suck!
Congratulations Krisitn and John!!
My youngest sister’s all growns up!
German Marketting: Sex can sell anything..
German advertising has always baffled me. I mean I’m not such a prude that freaks out if there is a lot of skin in an advertisement, but I really think the Germans use sex/nudity a bit too much in their advertising. I remember there was a long running ad on TV that featured a naked woman swimming in a lake. Some of the footage was from underwater looking up at her as she swam. Then she climbed out of the water… remember naked. Can you guess what they were selling?? Probably not. Margarine It all makes sense right?
I came across another good one today. It’s for a gym. Check it out:
Own your own English Soccer Team: MyFootballClub
Not to long ago I posted about a book I recently read called Wikinomics. As I said before the book is about how collaboration projects like Wikipedia and many others are changing the face of the internet. However the idea of collaboration is much more widespread and is affecting the business world much more than most of us can even imagine. I came across a new kind of collaboration today, an organization called MyFootballClub.
MyFootballClub is a UK based organization looking to bring the power of collaboration to the world of professional soccer. The group plans to purchase a mid-tier English football club and build it into a Premier Division side in the future. The way it works is people sign up for a subscription that costs £35 (about $70) and the become members. “They (members) will own the club, vote on team selection, decide which players to buy and sell and guide the club up the leagues.”
As a member you can:
- join other members on our private forum
- read exclusive news on the takeover progress
- be the first to find out which club is purchased
- cast crucial votes to shape our club’s future
- be part of a community that will make football history