Category: Blogging Innovation

Come join me this week at the Front End of Innovation in Boston, MA from May 16-18, 2011 where I will be taking an active role on all three days of the conference. Come join me for any or all of my three sessions: 1. Monday 2:20PM – Speaking on Building an Audience and Community in B2B What does it take to build expanding audiences and engaged communities in B2B? Come dig below the surface tactics and best practices to explore how and why people engage with some online initiatives and not with others. 2. Tuesday 12:15 PM – Moderating a panel on Supporting a Creative Culture: Inspiring Product Development Teams Along the Path to Innovation Come join Steven Goers of Kraft Foods, David Yudis of The Walt Disney Company, John Tuders of Bank of America, and members of the audience as we explore what it takes to build and … Continue reading

Below you will find the Top 10 innovation slideshares as ranked by me from the submissions I received for the Front End of Innovation (FEI USA) contest and from the thousands of innovation presentations on slideshare. I’m sure there are probably better ones, but I couldn’t find them. If I missed some, please add a comment with a link. If it is really good (and downloadable), I’ll add it to our Innovation Excellence slideshare channel. Here are my Top 10 Innovation Slideshares: The Art of Innovation by Guy Kawasaki Creating and Sustaining Profitable Growth by Clayton Christensen The Nine Innovation Roles by Braden Kelley Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs by Carmine Gallo 100 Things to Watch in 2011 by Ann M. Mack 10 Business Models That Rocked 2010 by Nick Demey 10 Lessons of Innovation by Idris Mootee Innovation by 10 by Frog Design Innovation and the Future by Torsten … Continue reading

More than 2,600 articles, and growing… In preparation for the launch of Innovation Excellence, and in the continuing spirit of the global Blogging Innovation community, I am opening up this blog even farther. If you are a published author, an aspiring author, an academic, an innovation practitioner, or frankly just an innovation enthusiast with a unique and powerful innovation insight to share, we want to hear from you – regardless of pedigree or geography. We can’t of course accept and publish every submission, but if the innovation insight is strong enough and the grammar is sufficient to be understood, then we are open to looking at any and all submissions and we would be proud to add to our community of 30+ contributing authors who gain valuable visibility from having their work appear on Blogging Innovation. For those of you who may not realize how big Blogging Innovation already is … Continue reading

I had the opportunity to interview Gerard Cox, organizer of the the inaugural Second Line conference. The event is an interactive conference celebrating the New Economy successes and strategies with disruptive innovation, value creation, and sustainable social impact. Set in New Orleans, they are bringing some of the world’s leading innovators to demonstrate how design, experience, strategy, and technology can be applied to create new markets, exponential growth, and sustainable social impacts. Here is text of the interview: 1. Why is innovation so important to organizations in New Orleans? Most recently the city had innovate to address the social needs required as a product of Hurricane Katrina. In the wake of Katrina, New Orleans was swarmed by an extremely generous group of volunteers who really inspired locals to take control of our community and develop new social ventures to address our citizen’s needs. It is well known in social innovation … Continue reading

Blogging Innovation is looking for the Top 10 Innovation Presentations, and we have up to $3,700 worth of prizes up for grabs. To give me a little more time to identify the TEN BEST and to give you a little more time to submit your favorites, I’ve pushed out the deadline and announcement 48 hours. What are your favorite presentations or documents available on slideshare? Nominate a slideshare presentation or document to be included on the Top 10 list and be entered into the prize drawing for some great prizes worth up to $3,700: 1 All-Access Pass to the Front End of Innovation USA (May 16-18, 2011 in Boston) – $3,700 value 2 signed copies of Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire by Braden Kelley – priceless You can submit a nomination any of these THREE ways: Commenting on this blog post with the URL of the slideshare presentation or document Sending … Continue reading

Just a friendly reminder that Blogging Innovation is looking for the Top 10 Innovation Presentations, and we have up to $3,700 worth of prizes up for grabs. What are your favorite presentations or documents available on slideshare? Nominate a slideshare presentation or document to be included on the Top 10 list and be entered into the prize drawing for some great prizes worth up to $3,700: 1 All-Access Pass to the Front End of Innovation USA (May 16-18, 2011 in Boston) – $3,700 value 2 signed copies of Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire by Braden Kelley – priceless You can submit a nomination any of these THREE ways: Commenting on this blog post with the URL of the slideshare presentation or document Sending us the URL of the slideshare presentation or document by @reply on twitter to @innovate Sending the URL of the slideshare presentation or document by email to contest … Continue reading









