Category: Social Media
If we in the role of the budgeteer aren’t empowering leadership (actual program and resource managers) with the information they need to make informed decisions, we’ve potentially got an analyst weenie sitting at the helm of a multi-billion dollar federal program. Continue reading
What do a polar bear and a bird have in common? Well, quite a bit if they happen to be Coke’s Polar Bears and Twitter’s Larry (yes, there is a name for Twitter’s bird icon and it is Larry). Continue reading
The world is changing and needs Social Business Architects. Gone is the epoch of the passive consumer, now customers want a say. At the same time, the quest for survival and growth is causing companies to stop looking at suppliers as someone to squeeze on price and instead as partners in innovation. And, employers are realizing that to maximize their success they need to attract and engage the best talent not just into internal talent pools, but external ones as well. Continue reading
In my humble opinion, the use of social media and personal branding techniques is a low-hanging fruit for corporate innovators and entrepreneurs. Nevertheless, there is not yet much activity on this. Continue reading
We think about networking as a very modern notion, with our accumulation of virtual “friends,” “followers” and people-who-might-be-useful-to-us-someday. To me, it is just an extension of what my people, my family have been doing since 70 AD – making critical connections that enable both our survival. The tools may have changed, but our reliance on the network has not. In fact, without the network, I literally wouldn’t be alive. Continue reading
Here we are. It’s early in 2012 and the tech prophets are hard at it, making their predictions for the coming year. Among their “more of the same, but faster, smaller, and cheaper” prognostications, it’s their forecasts for social networking that have particularly caught my eye.
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