Altimeter Roundtable: Mobile Discussion on “Enrich, Engage, and Entrust”

Altimeter hosted our second roundtable lead with our newest hire, Chris Silva (blog/Twitter) who’s our newest analyst at Altimeter focused on Mobile Strategy. Chris also stems from Forrester, and was an analyst there focused on mobile, he was actually one of the trainers in my … Continue readingAltimeter Roundtable: Mobile Discussion on “Enrich, Engage, and Entrust”

Event Rollup: Gamification Discussion At Altimeter Roundtable

Last night, Altimeter hosted a first in many public roundtables on disruptive technologies. Twenty highly engaged folks that ranged form skeptics, brands, gamification vendor provider (Empire Avenue, Badgeville, Zynga, Gigya) to players of these games. The 1.5 hour discussion discussed how these platforms work, explored … Continue readingEvent Rollup: Gamification Discussion At Altimeter Roundtable

Slides: Invest in Scalable Social Business Programs (Keynote)

How should companies prioritize their social business efforts? That’s the very question we’ve been asked to tackle at today’s conference at Bazaarvoice’s Social Commerce Summit (live stream) here in Austin, Texas.  This room of 600 web strategists and social strategists (on brand side) are making … Continue readingSlides: Invest in Scalable Social Business Programs (Keynote)

Google’s Social Media Team Reaches to Agencies (and hosts Facebook, MySpace, and H&R Block)

Left Image: The panel: Dick Costolo from Google, Paula Drum from H&R Block, Chris George from MySpace, and Tom Arrix of Facebook. See more pics on Picassa. Did you know that Google has a social media team intent on reaching brands and agencies? I didn’t … Continue readingGoogle’s Social Media Team Reaches to Agencies (and hosts Facebook, MySpace, and H&R Block)

Wrapup: What’s on the mind of VCs, Entrepreneurs, and Industry Analysts

Left: Scale Venture Partners brought VPs of Marketing, CMOs and founders portfolio clients to meet with me last week. When we think of influencer groups in the social media space, we often think of top bloggers like Techcrunch, RWW, GigaOm, Fast Company, Cnet, yet there’s … Continue readingWrapup: What’s on the mind of VCs, Entrepreneurs, and Industry Analysts

An Overview of Facebook’s F8 Developer Community

Above: Over 1000 developers attending Facebook’s F8 Conference, picture above the developer showcase, photo from Brian Solis use with attribution by creative commons Facebook’s Developer Conference F8 I attended Facebook’s F8 developer conference in SF last week, and met with many of the application developers … Continue readingAn Overview of Facebook’s F8 Developer Community

How Sony Electronics Reaches Online –and Offline– with Bloggers

Although many brands forget that what happens offline echoes online, Sony is using a combination of digital and in person evangelism for a powerful concoction. Last night, I had dinner with Sony Electronics President Stan Glasgow and Top Blogger, Rick Clancy who publishes on the … Continue readingHow Sony Electronics Reaches Online –and Offline– with Bloggers