Attended Seth Godin’s Tribes Launch Event (See Photos)
Book Review: Tribes May Be Seth Godin’s Best Book
I’m heading to NYC this afternoon with a couple of copies of Seth Godin’s new book, Tribes, tucked into my bag. This one is truly provocative. It’s also the slimmest, smallest of his books so far which is convenient for carrying around. I typically skim business…
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Free Webinar with Chris Baggott on How to Profit From Blogging
Tribes: It’s Global, Stupid
I’m eagerly awaiting my copy of Seth Godin’s new book, Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us. In the meantime, Seth notes that today is the official pub day and points us to a free download of the accompanying
(Can’t Make It To) Blog Well
Live Interview with Debbie Alan on WSRadio.com
Corporate Blogs on the Economic Crisis: “What Crisis??”
Note: this post has been revised to make it easier to read.
Reading some of the better known Big Brand blogs you’d never know the nation’s economic ship is listing sharply and BTW it’s going to affect all of us, globally. Tom Friedman reminds us in the New York…
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On Being Digitally Nomadic
Was invited to post a riff on Dell’s Digital Nomads. It took me down memory lane. Read it here. Digital Nomads is one of a new breed of corporate blogs which I find to be particularly effective. It’s on a topic clearly (but cleverly) related to the company’s…
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CEO Blogger Lament: “It Only Takes an Hour But It Takes Mindshare”
Just ran across this. Forrester CEO George Colony started a blog in late January 2008. In April he spoke at the Forrester Marketing Forum on his first two months of blogging. “It only takes an hour a week,” he said but he finds himself thinking about writing the…
read moreOnly 12% Are Corporate Bloggers, According to Technorati’s 2008 State of the Blogosphere
No surprise: corporate bloggers are the smallest piece of the blogging pie, according to Technorati’s just released State of the Blogosphere 2008. Only 12 percent of bloggers self-identify as “corporate,” meaning they blog in an official capacity for their company.
But to complicate the numbers, a number of corporate…
read moreAuthor David Meerman Scott on the Twittering Personality
David Meerman Scott and I enjoyed some Mexican food in Reston, VA tonight. David was in town to do one of his New Rules of Marketing seminars based on his eponymous best-selling book. Below we’re having a little fun after dinner. I asked him if he thought…
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Is Twitter a Waste of Time? No, Says (Busy) Inc. 5000 CEO
Note: this has been re-posted from the Inc. 5000 conference blog.
Despite the fact that 39% of the Inc. 500 are blogging, I found only a tiny handful* of folks at the Inc. 5000 conference (speakers or entrepreneur-attendees) who are actively engaged in using…
read moreTom Peters: Blogging Has Changed My Life
“If you’re not blogging, you’re an idiot,” management uber-guru Tom Peters told hundreds of attendees at the 27th annual Inc. 5000 conference in Washington DC. “No single thing in the last 15 years has been more important to me professionally than blogging… It’s changed my thinking, it’s…
read moreSeth Godin on the Right Way to Use Social Networking for Your Business
It’s not about your number of Twitter followers or Facebook friends, Seth Godin told me yesterday at the Inc. 5000 conference in Washington DC. Seth kindly agreed to a one-minute interview yesterday after his mainstage appearance with Tom Peters, moderated by AmEx OPEN president Susan Sinnott.
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read moreLive From the Inc. 5000 Conference: Jim Collins, Dell, Seth Godin, Tom Peters, Zingerman’s and More
Busy day “liveblogging” the Inc. 5000 conference here in D.C. Here’s what’s I posted today:
Three Things on Jim Collins’ ‘Stop Doing’ List
Dell VP Bob Pearson Listens to 10,000 Online Conversations Everyday
Dell also announced its new Facebook community today:
Q & A with Contrarian Effect Co-author Elizabeth Marshall
Note: this has been re-posted from the Inc. 5000 conference blog.
While Michael Port was busy on stage this afternoon at the annual Inc. 5000 conference in Washington DC, his co-author Elizabeth Marshall took a few minutes to do a…
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