Archive for ‘Technology’

Collaborative News: WCCO’s The Wire Wants You!

By , 2 April, 2010, 1 Comment
Collaborative News: WCCO’s The Wire Wants You!

So, what the heck do you do if you’re a large media distribution channel and your audience has started to find you less relevant because they can seek their information elsewhere and have a dialogue about it?

Marching Together: Recap of Mobile March

By , 29 March, 2010, 4 Comments

The majority of people DO NOT have Android or Smartphones… they have TEXT!!! We are the uber geeks, not consumers! The point here being that, thinking from a tech savvy box isn’t always a good thing, as the majority of the population runs on less sophisticated technology, but uses it well and via SMS. We should focus marketing efforts here. “Consumers want that brand, color or price point, not complicated application arrangements that require vast amounts of knowledge they don’t have to operate. Developing apps that actually relate to the consumer market would be a much better spend in developer time. We don’t need yet another Twitter app. The creativity comes in how you’re building the relationship with the customer, not the creativity in the app!!!

The Beauty of Technology: Recap of SMBSXSW from Afar

By , 15 March, 2010, 4 Comments
The Beauty of Technology: Recap of SMBSXSW from Afar

Social Media as part of the operational alignment is about creating edges and flows inside your company. Innovation happens on the edges where you get creative friction and where things and things can even be a little messy. What SM can do if you optimize the right way is create those edges and knowledge flows… can start happening inside your company.