Mark Fidelman
EVP Sales of MindTouch. Mark has advised many start ups including a social networking site that was sold to Barry Diller's IAC. Before joining MindTouch, Mark led global sales efforts as an Executive Vice President for a publicly traded company, headed sales efforts for a technology division of AT Kearney and EDS, and served as Vice President of Sales and Marketing for a Singapore based corporation. Mark blogs at Seek Omega
BREAKING: Google to Capitol Records–We’re Not Going to Let You Shut Down Cloud Computing
Can someone tell Capitol Records that the music has stopped? If you haven’t been following events, Capitol Records (EMI) has sued Boston-based Redigi (a used digital music marketplace) for what amounts to copyright infringement. Today, Google decided to enter the fray as a third party, and filed an amicus curiae brief (friend of the court) [...]
Master These 5 Remarkable Strategies of Motivation and Go Straight to the Top
According to a recent Gallup Poll, about a third of all U.S. workers are dissatisfied with either the recognition they receive, their chances for promotion, or the amount of money they earn. Worse, seventy-one percent of American workers are “not engaged” or “actively disengaged” in their work. Since most of us cannot change the economy, [...]
Music Industry to Business: If We Can’t Buy SOPA/PIPA Laws, We’ll Just Sue You Instead
The song Blackout is moving up the Music Industry charts, and is bound to reach number one because it fits the industry’s belief systems. In what can only be described as acts of Dumb and Dumber, the music industry is now targeting businesses in their quest to censor the internet and control our rights to [...]
How Yammer Should Have Responded to the TechCrunch Ad Hominem
I can’t help but laugh at the TechCrunch gang’s corporate ad hominem last week. It seemed more of a personal attack than any real attempt to provide a product review. TechCrunch didn’t merely reproach their building mate, they reprimanded them. Stranger, most of the article really didn’t say anything at all, because they were not [...]
Why Every Company Needs to be More Like IBM and Less Like Apple
I was thirteen years old when I first saw it on TV. An army of blue-gray drones march in lockstep through a long tunnel into an auditorium filled with more drones dressed in futuristic, grey drab. All eyes are transfixed on a big-blue image of a man speaking from a theatre-sized screen, extolling the virtues [...]
5 Reasons Why CapGemini Just Re-Positioned their Management Consulting Practice to Focus on Social Business
Don’t believe the world’s businesses are going social? Take this recent declaration from CapGemini’s Managing Director, Global Head of Practices, Didier Bonnet when discussing Social Business with me: “We’ve actually repositioned the entire practice around digital transformation. So for us it’s not just changing one service offering; it’s our entire focus globally for our teams [...]
The Fastest Way to Lose Your $3 Million a Year Job? Have a Zero email Policy
Every time I see an anti-email blog post or even more amusingly a company that issues a zero email policy, I’m always reminded of one of my favorite Einstein lines, “”Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the the universe.” You have to admire CEO Thierry Breton of [...]
If Your Company is Still Blocking the Move to Social, Then Join Electronic Arts in Battle
The world’s largest gaming company is going through a remarkable transformation into a Social Business. Electronic Arts understands that today’s technologies, unlike those of the past decade, are no longer limited to the individual. They impact everyone. Impact that’s revolutionizing … Continue reading →
Thinking About Creating an eBook, Look at this Infographic First
Aptara and Scott Abel (Content Wrangler) have created this interesting infographic on the state of the eBook publishing space. As more and more content goes digital, it will be crucial to understand how to leverage eBooks and similar forms … Continue reading →
REVEALED: eBay’s Playbook for Social Business Adoption
eBay’s going social. Its protagonists are building the next generation social platform called the HUB, to increase employee engagement, collaboration and effectiveness. It is instructive to follow the evolution of their strategy in response to the growing chorus of eBay employees who were demanding social tools, or had already snuck them in. On first impression, [...]
If this Bill Passes, The Angel Investment Community is Dead and Companies Like Kickstarter Take Over
H.R. 2930 appears to be just another US Congressional Bill winding its way through the system. Yet I can imagine most Professional Angel Investors recognize (or should) the bill and its potential impact on their livelihood. The House has already passed it with a 95% majority. It’s now on to the Senate and possibly the [...]
How to Improve Social Business Adoption as Told by IBM (Part 1)
I typically like to provide context around discussions with industry thought leaders and Executives of the Fortune 500. Yet some discussions should simply be left untouched and published as-is. It’s not a short article, but the insights around IBM’s journey to becoming a Social Business is remarkable and a must read for those that are [...]
The Most Influential People in Performance Marketing (infographic)
The Performance Marketing industry has come under fire for a series of incidents that have tarred the industry. An important industry that can make or break your company. The community has a range of people from the slick evangelist to the online marketing champion. Sometimes it’s difficult to distinguish who is who. According to the [...]
Employees must Occupy the Board Room and Demand to be Social
They were not incompetent or anything; they had simply broken more pumps in the last year than any previous year the engineers could remember. Not the inexpensive kind, but the large 200 horsepower, $22,000 pumps used in geothermal power plants; each blew up in a succession of preventable blunders. But then it got worse. They [...]
Steve Jobs THINK DIFFERENT – a Visual Tribute
Saddened by the loss of an individual who has brought great joy and anticipation back into our lives. He’s the only individual I know of where millions of people tune into his product announcements. He’s earned that level of attention by bringing to market products that create emotional bonds with the owner. So, out of [...]
