Why Did Microsoft Acquire Yammer?
If you haven’t heard the news yet, Microsoft has officially announced that they acquired Yammer for 1.2 billion dollars. I’ve had several discussions around this over the past week or so, ever since the rumors first started circulating. It’s an interesting move and I think it makes sense. Yammer has just under a million paid [...]
Enterprise 2.0 in Boston: Why You Should Be There
This week I’m excited to be heading to the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston. E2.0 originally started off as a conference focused on collaboration inside of organizations but has since expanded to also tackle topics such as big data, social CRM, unified communications, and mobile. It’s one of the few events where the people you [...]
Free Webinar: Common Collaboration Problems with the CIO of Pabst Brewing Company
This Wednesday the 16th at 10am PST Ben Haines, the CIO of Pabst Brewing Company will be joining me on a webinar to discuss some of the common collaboration problems that organizations face today. We’re going to try to have a casual discussion around what obstacles organizations are running up against and how they are [...]
Reverse Demo Day (Thursday, February 23)
By now the rituals of Demo Day are familiar. The opportunities are great both for startups to tell their story, and for investors to see a lot of deals in a very short time. So why wouldn’t the reverse be true? Introducing the Valley’s first Revers…
Bruce Lee and the Art of Selling
Yesterday I had the privilege of delivering the closing keynote at the Sales 2.0 conference in San Francisco. My session was on Bruce Lee and the Art of Selling. As someone who loves kung-fu movies I thought it would be interesting to combine martial arts and the philosophy of Bruce Lee, with selling. Here are [...]
Reverse Demo Day (Thursday, September 29)
By now the rituals of Demo Day are familiar. The opportunities are great both for startups to tell their story, and for investors to see a lot of deals in a very short time. So why wouldn’t the reverse be true? Introducing the Valley’s first Reverse Demo Day, where the investors sell themselves to entrepreneurs. [...]
Free Event Thursday: Founder/CEO Succession
If you liked my recent post on How To Avoid Getting Fired From Your Own Company, you’ll love my upcoming panel on founder/CEO succession issues, What Color Is Your Parachute?The good folks at Orrick and I have assembled an All-Star panel with three fou…
You’re Invited! American Marketing Association on Social Business
I’m speaking at the American Marketing Association during Social Media Week on “Evolving into a Social Business.” The event is on Feb 9th from 6-8pm at 1550 Bryant Street Penthouse–Eleventh Floor. Here’s the description of the event: Organizations are getting more involved with social media as tools and channels but inevitably the question of “now what?” [...]
Speaking At Conferences, Should You Be Compensated?
Speaking at conferences is a lot of fun, but it’s also a lot of work. When I speak at an event I like to think that I am providing something unique both in terms of content and in terms of presentation. Sometimes I get approached to speak and sometimes I submit requests to speak. The [...]
Are You Interested in Monitoring Social Media?
Murray Newlands is hosting yet another event in San Francisco this Thursday October 21st; this one is all around social media monitoring and features great speakers such as Marcel LeBrun (CEO of Radian 6), Jennifer Zeszut (chief social strategists at Lithium Technologies), and Timothy Jordan (developer advocate at google). I spoke at Murray’s last event [...]
For the First Ever Social Customer Relationship Management is Coming to Blog World Expo!
I’m very excited to announce that for the first time Blog World Expo (the world’s largest social media conference) is going to be introducing Social CRM into their agenda mix and I was fortunate enough to be asked to lead that session. I’m also very excited to announce that joining me on stage will be [...]
Free Webinar on the Business of Being Social and Why You Should Care
I’ve been a fan of blueKiwi for a little while now. For those of you not familiar blueKiwi, they are a social business software company which allows customers, partners, and employees to effectively collaborate with one another. I believe they have a very interesting vision for both customer and employee engagement and they are executing on that [...]
My Thoughts on the Enterprise 2.0 Conference
Today is the last day of the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston and I must say that I had a great time meeting with and interacting with a lot of folks that I have either known for a while or have chatted with online but haven’t yet met in person. The networking and relationship building [...]
I’m Attending Enterprise 2.0 in Boston, are You?
For the next week or so I’m going to be commuting between New York and Boston. I’m in New York speaking at PRSA and at a client event. I’ll be in Boston for E2.0 from the 15th-17th (of June). I attended the E2.0 conference in San Francisco last year and loved it, this is my [...]
My Thoughts on the Social CRM Summit in Georgia
This past week I had the privilege of attending Paul Greenberg’s and BPT Partner’s Social CRM Summit in Atlanta. I’ve never been to Atlanta before or anywhere near that portion of the U.S. Yes it was a bit warm and yes it was a bit humid, but I still had a great time. The event [...]
