What’s Next: After Social Media
Seth Priebatsch, the CEO and Chief Ninja of the mobile geolocation game company SCVNGR, (pronounced scavenger), wants to build a game layer on top of the world. Listening to him speak at the recent TEDxBoston conference makes you realize that the game layer is...
Content Creating Customers Creating Content
Content is what we string together to tell stories, share thoughts and ideas. Coming in different flavors (text, video, photo, music, spoken word, etc.), content is king, and in the digital age it’s good to be the mayor, let alone the king. Now the news: 61 percent of...
The Gulf of Perception
If old movies taught us anything, it is when the legend becomes fact, print the legend. What happens in today’s instant news environment when perception becomes fact? Thanks to Jeff Cutler who covered the Gulf oil spill for several weeks, I hear his story the way it...
Learn, Unlearn, Relearn: The New Business Model
My heart sank a little bit when I read on Google’s official blog that Google Wave will be put out to digital pasture at the end of the year. It sank not because “I ‘heart’ Google,” but rather because an outstanding collaboration platform will go away. The problems...
Storytelling For Business
Since my knowledge management work with several companies, the value of storytelling for business has never escaped me. It is a way of passing lessons down from one generation of workers to the next. In business, that could mean every five to seven years before the...
The Splash of Social Media Day 2010
The call went out and the lemmings went forward: they met and by the glow of their handheld devices, you could picture them all going over a cliff, tweeting all the way down to the sea. Or perhaps it was one of the largest business networking events ever held,...
