March 14th, 2009
I’m going to be speaking later today at SXSW and am setting up the backchannels. Embedded below is the Meebo chat room, but you can also track the action via Twitter using the hashtag #sxswfsn (to do this, go to…
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March 4th, 2009
On Monday, Skittles changed it’s home page over to emphasis social media, specifically a Twitter search for “skittles”. I’ve included a screenshot of it (click on it to see it full size). The result: “#skittles” was the top trending topic…
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February 25th, 2009
This past Sunday was my birthday and I experienced part of it with my extended networks on places ranging from Facebook and Plaxo to Twitter (and now, my blog). I have to say, it was wonderful to get all of…
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February 2nd, 2009
This is a very cool mashup application using time lapsed “tweets” created by the New York Times to track what was capturing the people’s attention during the Super Bowl. The tweets are shown on a map of the US to…
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February 2nd, 2009
Over the weekend, Google Search was rendered useless for about an hour on Saturday thanks to human error where every Web page was considered dangerous malware (Information Week has an excellent overview of what happened). Google posted on its search…
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January 26th, 2009
I spent the morning at the Net Promoter Conference in San Francisco where I had the opportunity to hear and learn from Charles Schwab President & CEO Walt Bettinger, who discussed how the company turned around by being ultra-focused on…
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January 20th, 2009
I’m going to be speaking at several events over the next few weeks on a variety of topics that you may find interesting. When appropriate, I post the slides on SlideShare and also link to any relevant videos of the…
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December 15th, 2008
As Peter Kim writes, "Community and collaboration are a wonderful thing." Pete took the initiative to wrangle 14 social media bloggers to give our predictions for 2009. He's summarized some of the top predictions in a blog post, and also…
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November 20th, 2008
I've had good success setting up my own business at Altimeter Group but one thing I never got around to doing was getting a logo done. Last summer, I was briefed crowdSPRING, which is a marketplace for creative projects. So…
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November 11th, 2008
I was excited to see that Groundswell was selected named to Amazon’s Top Ten Best Business Books of 2008. It joins some excellent company, from Warren Buffet to John Kotter.
Between the book tour, striking out on my own, and…
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