Potential
What is potential? Most often, you hear it in a positive spin. A speculative evaluator mentions that a person, a project, an idea has potential. One of the best and most poignant definitions I ever heard was that potential was simply unused talent. When a former client and business … Read More»
Headlines
When I mention headlines, you likely think of newspaper or magazine articles, but in a fast paced moving world, where we are constantly inundated with people, messages, signs, and interruptions competing for your attention, the headline is all we have time for. It determines whether we'll pay … Read More»
Blog World LA: The State of the Blogosphere & the New Media Wisdom Void (#BWELA)
Last week, at the Los Angeles Convention Center, Blog World Expo appeared in its fifth incarnation. I spent a couple of days watching, listening, and engaging with a dense concentration of experienced and enthusiastic new media evangelists. The keynotes were well done. Peter Shankman is … Read More»
Attention
There are many things you can do to get attention. Or, there are things that you can do to EARN attention. Know the difference and choose the latter. … Read More»
In search of: A meaningful measure of Influence
Influence. It's a captivating word. It's an alluring word. We all want it, and we want to know others who have it. In high school, if you could get the "cool kids" to the party, the rest would follow. If the most famous and glamorous people in the world use it, like it, and talk about … Read More»
In an era of crisis & revolution, is your company the next target?
We are living in interesting times indeed. Geo-political revolutions, financial crises, economic uncertainty. Try as we might to ignore them, the fact is that the very fabric of capitalism is being re-evaluated, and perhaps even rewoven. What we have assumed and known for at least 150 years is at … Read More»
2011 First Half Review: @CRMStrategies 9 Most Popular Tweets
According to HootSuite, in the first 6 months of 2011, people clicked on links I shared on Twitter over 5,000 times. I have no idea how many links I shared. Below were the 9 most popular links (curious that the number one spot is from a blog post I wrote in early 2010) The State of Social CRM: 6 … Read More»
Empowering Human Movements: 7 Observations about the State of Social Business
This week, I've had the privilege to participate in the Sales 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 conferences in Boston, MA. It's been good to see old friends, meet new ones, and/or insert a handshake or hug into a previously only virtual relationship. The conference(s) also provided a great chance to check … Read More»
Networks, Signals, Reputation and Delight
The era of mass marketing, sales driven information gathering and sharing, and being "just good enough to win" is being shattered by the rapid emergence of a smart, networked, and increasingly demanding generation of empowered customers. In the fragmented and fast moving world of concepts, … Read More»
The frog who noticed the boiling water…
There were once a bunch of frogs. They all jumped into a pot of water. You know how the story goes. Except... in this case, it ends differently. As the heat is slowly turned up, something happens. One of the frogs looks around, and actually notices the heat. He begins analyzing and forecasting … Read More»
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