Archive for May, 2010

Gilbane Conference – Opening Keynote by Daniel Rasmus

Daniel W. Rasmus – The Future of Collaboration Visionaries believe that their version of the future is shared by everyone else Books: Management by Design and Listening to the Future Employee experience vs. customer experience – How many companies are spending time thinking about employee experience? One of the reason that Millenials are not loyal [...]

Gilbane Conference – Opening Keynote by Jeremiah Owyang

Opening Keynote – Jeremiah Owyang – “Your Corporate Website Can be Relevant Again” Slides from Jeremiah’s presentation. Two kinds of corporate websites: one focused on products / services and one focused on the customer Customers and decision makers are making decisions on other websites about your company Phase 1: No social integration on Web site [...]

Burn the Ships, Touch the Burner, and Behave Like a Baby

Last week, I had the opportunity to attend “Building Trust in a Connected World”, a social media summit put together by the folks at the Women’s Tech Council in Salt Lake City. There were three speakers – Chris Brogan, Julien Smith and Mitch Joel. While there were some technical issues at the venue and the [...]

Seesmic for Blackberry vs. UberTwitter

About a year ago, when I became a very “active” Twitter user, I wanted to install one of the Twitter applications. I looked around and UberTwitter seemed to be preferred over TwitterBerry. I installed UberTwitter and used it exclusively for several months. There was one main issue I had with it at the time and [...]

Your Twitter Background: A Great Place for Personal Branding

If you look at the Twitter profiles of some of the top people doing business on Twitter (@comcastcares, @zappos, @chrisbrogan, @problogger, and others) you’ll notice that all of them have some sort of custom Twitter background. For someone like the CEO of Zappos, his twitter background not only provides a way for him to add [...]