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Industry expert? That is spooky..

October 31st, 2006 at 04:24am David Bush - Iasta

I cannot remember the last time I was interviewed and quoted in a magazine and yesterday received a copy of La Lettre des Achats. I was interviewed by the author, Philippe Guillaume, back in September about the growing influence of blogs in the supply management world. The group is described on their website as:

La Lettre des Achats is the leading business review for corporate purchasing departments in France. The review has been regarded as a high-grade reference for information and decision by corporate purchasing departments for over 10 years.

It was a great interactive discussion we had and I was very much looking forward to the article except when I opened to read, it is in French! So, I have finally been made famous (very much deserved and overdue), and I can’t even read my own quotes which I have now forgotten. Of course, this is not quite the level of fame of buddy, Dave Stephens, who gets to grace the cover of magazines with his stunning features and inspiring presence but its all about baby steps, right?

Regardless, I have asked for some translation assistance from our operations team in Belgium and the author, so I might be able to relay what I said later in the week…assuming I said something really smart, otherwise this will be the last you hear of it.

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1. David Bush - Iasta | November 1st, 2006 at 6:27 pm

Well, of course, Google comes to the rescue again. I used the translation tools and was able to read the article with some wacky conversions aside. Its mostly a high level piece and the most interesting quote comes from Dave Stephens:

Does one have to regard the blogueurs purchases as journalists? Dave Stephens, author of Procurement Central since November 2005, admits: “The border is sometimes fine, especially when articles of blogs are quoted by journalists. But the blogueurs are not journalists. The reader of a blog must remain vigilant and put the question: why does this person write what she writes? Why this subject in particular? ”

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