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August 18th, 2010

Facebook Places completes the picture

By Susan Etlinger and Charlene Li
Today, Facebook confirmed that it is adding location awareness to the Facebook experience. Facebook Places enables members to share where they are and who they are with, find people near them and discover new…

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October 27th, 2009

International examples of “open” organizations and leaders needed

I’m wrapping up work on my next book “Open” and am in need of a few examples of organizations and leaders outside of North America.
In particular, I’m looking for examples of organizations that have put in place more open…

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October 22nd, 2009

Social Search: Customers Influence Search Results Over Brands

This post was collaboratively written (in real time) on a wiki by Charlene Li, who maintains a focus on Leadership Strategy and Jeremiah Owyang, who maintains a focus on Customer Strategy. Together, we’re covering the convergence of emerging technologies at…

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August 18th, 2009

Announcing my next book

I got the itch again and will be working on my next book over the next few months. The book is being published by Jossey-Bass and will come out in May 2010.
I’ve included a description, some working titles, and…

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July 20th, 2009

New study: Deep brand engagement correlates with financial performance

I’m releasing today a new research report that I wrote in conjunction with Wetpaint called “ENGAGEMENTdb“. The study looked at how the 100 most valuable brands — as identified by the 2008 BusinessWeek/Interbrand Best Global Brands ranking — engaged in…

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June 14th, 2009

Would you invite 16 bloggers to spend 24 hours with your company? The Navy did.

(I previously wrote an intro and link post about the bloggers who went on the USS Nimitz.)
When the Navy issued the invitation for 16 bloggers to spend a day on the USS Nimitz, I thought there had to be…

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April 8th, 2009

MLB.TV Blog - MIA

I was tipped off by IDG report Juan Carlos Perez that Major League Baseball had pulled their MLB.TV blog earlier today, after opening day problems for the paid service that broadcasts games in real time. (The service starts at $14.95/month…

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February 2nd, 2009

Super Bowl Twitter Chatter map from the New York Times

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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