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Tuesday, December 10, 2013
FIR Interview: Jeremiah Owyang on Crowd Companies and the collaborative economy
Jeremiah Owyang believes the next phase of sharing is upon us.
The first phase was of media and ideas, otherwise known as social media. The second phase is the sharing of the physical world, what we call the collaborative economy.
Today at LeWeb Paris 2013 - the largest internet conference in Europe whose theme this year is ‘The Next 10 Years’- Owyang launches his entry into the second phase with Crowd Companies, his newest endeavor and what he describes as "a catalyst for change at large companies."
In this exclusive FIR Interview, Owyang tells FIR co-hosts Neville Hobson and Shel Holtz about his vision for Crowd Companies leading the nascent collaborative economy into a more mainstream movement.
Owyang says that the primary focus of Crowd Companies is as a brand council that provides large enterprises with peer to peer knowledge, expert education from third parties and access to an innovation network of startups.
At launch today, Crowd Companies’ brand council comprises 20 large corporations including GE, The Home Depot, Whole Foods, Intel, Hyatt, Ford, Western Union, Adobe, Nestle and Verizon.
Owyang says the council will focus on the Collaborative Economy Movement, addressing (and answering) questions including a foundational one - what role do companies play in this process?
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Jeremiah Owyang is the Chief Catalyst and Founder of Crowd Companies, which focuses on how large companies tap the collaborative economy, maker movement, and customer collaboration. Prior, he was an industry analyst and Partner of Customer Strategy at Altimeter Group, an industry analyst firm based in Silicon Valley.
He focuses on how disruptive web technologies - such as social media, the collaborative economy, and interactive marketing - impact the relevance of corporations to customers today and in the future. He is well recognized by both the tech industry and the media for his grounded approach to deriving astute insights through rigorous research.
His blog, Web Strategy, is one of the premier blogs on how corporations connect with their customers using web technologies. Jeremiah is frequently quoted in top-tier publications, such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and USA Today.
Previously, Jeremiah worked at Forrester and at Hitachi, where he launched the company’s first social program. He was featured in the 2009 “Who’s Who” in the Silicon Valley Business Journal, and his Twitter feed was named one of the top feeds by Time in 2011.
- Connect with Jeremiah on Twitter: @jowyang.
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Related posts:
- FIR Interview: Jeremiah Owyang on The Collaborative Economy - June 8, 2013
- FIR Interview: Jeremiah Owyang, Altimeter, on Social Business Readiness - September 11, 2011
- FIR Interview: Jeremiah Owyang, Partner, Altimeter Group - August 27, 2009
- FIR Interview: Jeremiah Owyang, Senior Analyst, Forrester Research - May 1, 2009
Thursday, November 28, 2013
FIR Interview: Adam Parker, RealWire, on the roles of listening and influence
In today’s professional development landscape, a major educational imperative for PR practitioners, marketers and others involved in online engagement is knowing how to find influential voices across the social web: what to look for, where to focus your attention, what tools are there to help you, and where do you start.
One man who has the credentials to share insights on such questions is Adam Parker, chief executive of RealWire, the UK media intelligence company, and the founder and architect of Lissted, its new superhuman social listening tool.
In this FIR Interview conducted at the CIPR’s PR Show 2013 in London on November 26, 2013, FIR co-host Neville Hobson met up with Adam during one of the breaks between conference sessions in the vibrant and very noisy atrium at the Business Design Centre in London for a chat over coffee. We began our conversation with Adam setting the scene with some perspectives on social media monitoring.
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About our Conversation Partner
Adam Parker is chief executive of RealWire, the UK media intelligence company, and the founder and architect of Lissted, its new superhuman social listening tool.
He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR), a regular speaker on best practice in online PR and one of the co-authors of the CIPR’s bestselling "Share This" series of books, contributing the chapter "Media Relations Modernised" to the first book, and a chapter on the topic of "Understanding Social Capital" to its sequel.
Adam is also a chartered accountant, and before joining RealWire spent nine years with PwC in its audit, corporate finance and consulting practices working with both public and private sector blue chip organizations.
Connect with Adam on Twitter: @AdParker.
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Monday, November 25, 2013
FIR Interview: Andrew Grill, IBM, on Social Business
The idea of an organization being a "social business" is one that’s been talked about for the past few years, and acted upon by many businesses, especially large enterprises.
While social business has quickly captured imaginations with many people, the term itself hasn’t universally caught on, perhaps because of the word ‘social’ that many seem to confuse with "social media."
In this FIR Interview, IBM’s Andrew Grill tells FIR co-host Neville Hobson why he believes social business is an imperative for organizations today. Andrew offers a way of defining the term that focuses on people, behaviors and organization change, rather than purely on social software and networking.
In a wide-ranging conversation, Andrew describes how some organizations have embraced social business and can demonstrate measurable benefits. He illustrates the primary obstacles preventing more organizations understanding and acting on the ideas behind "social business."
And he concludes with his top tips and advice to any organization today – no matter its size or industry – regarding what they need to do to embrace the concepts of being a social business.
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Andrew Grill is an internationally renowned thought leader in the fields of social business and social media networks. Currently, Andrew is a Partner in IBM Interactive based in London with a global remit to help drive understanding and deliver social business solutions to key IBM clients.
Previously, Andrew was CEO of leading social influence platform Kred.
Part strategy, part business, part technology and 100% digital, he has been sharing insights on digital and social online since 2004.
Prior to Kred, Andrew was Head of International Client Strategy for Visible Technologies, and CEO of commercial property website, PropertyLook. He also held senior roles in Australia with carriers Telstra and Optus.
Andrew edits the leading social business blog LondonCalling.co, and can be found on Twitter as @andrewgrill
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Tuesday, October 01, 2013
FIR Interview: Robert Scoble and Shel Israel, authors of Age of Context
Two men who have been at the vanguard of social media and the disruptive evolution that different ways of working and communicating have emerged in businesses everywhere over the past decade are Robert Scoble and Shel Israel.
Their seminal work Naked Conversations, published in 2006, shone a spotlight on the then-emerging world of blogging and the changes being wrought to business practices by enlightened individuals in organizations everywhere.
In their new book, Age of Context: Mobile, Sensors, Data and the Future of Privacy, Scoble and Israel widen their spotlight to examine five converging forces - mobile, data, sensors and location-based technology - that promise to change virtually every aspect of our lives.
In this near one-hour FIR Interview, co-hosts Neville Hobson and Shel Holtz explore the themes revealed in the book with the two authors, discussing topics ranging from privacy to personal contextual assistants; and consider the self-publishing model the authors employed to bring their book to market.
"Be prepared to see the future in these pages," declares Salesforce.com founder and CEO Marc Benioff, writing in the book’s foreword. With over 100 5-star reviews on Amazon, it’s a view that many readers already agree with.
Age of Context is available now in paperback and ebook formats.
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Robert Scoble is an American blogger, technical evangelist, and author. As a startup liaison for Rackspace, the Open Cloud Computing Company, he travels the world looking for what’s happening on the bleeding edge of technology.
Robert has interviewed thousands of executives and technology innovators, and reports for Building 43 and in social media.
He is the co-author, with Forbes columnist Shel Israel, of Age of Context. Their previous book, Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers, published in 2006, has been called a watershed work in introducing business to social media.
Shel Israel helps businesses tell their stories in engaging ways, as a writer, consultant and presentation coach.
He is the author and co-author of five books including Age of Context - his latest book, co-written with Robert Scoble and released in September 2013 - Naked Conversations and Twitterville.
Shel currently writes the Contextual Beat column for Forbes.com. Previously he has contributed to BusinessWeek, Dow Jones, Fast Company and American Express Open Forum.
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Friday, September 13, 2013
FIR Interview: Chris Muccio, author, 42 Rules for 24-Hour Success on LinkedIn
LinkedIn is, arguably, the premier social network for Business-to-Business (B2B). Over 200 million people have profiles on LinkedIn, but most put their information up with no particular strategy to get the most out of LinkedIn.
42 Rules for 24-Hour Success on LinkedIn, 2nd edition, discusses just this topic. In this FIR interview, correspondent Michael Procopio spoke with the author Chris Muccio about the concepts in the book. As the discussion was more an interview with Chris about how to manage a LinkedIn presence than directly covering this new edition of the book we’ve put this in as an FIR interview rather than a FIR Review.
Chris covers the common mistakes that can easily be fixed as well as more advanced tips on getting the most out of LinkedIn.
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Chris Muccio is the Chief Technopologist for Catapult Interactive, a strategic marketing tech firm engineered to transform marketing in the digital world. He previously worked at Ajilon Finance Solutions, Sensormatic and Inphynet Medical Management / EMSA. Chris started his career as a CPA at Cooper and Lybrand.
Connect with Craig on Twitter at @CFOstrategist.
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Wednesday, September 04, 2013
FIR Interview: Craig Jolley on marketing automation
The challenges of today’s marketer—particularly in B2B circles—have grown increasingly complicated. From altered cycles to the volume of information available to a prospect to a growing disconnect between marketing and sales, the complexities of marketing have made it harder and harder to handle without the aid of systems that can analyze data and handle a variety of behind-the-scene tasks.
This technology-enabled approach is known as “marketing automation,” something FIR listeners in the Google+ Community told us was of interest to them. In this FIR interview, co-host Shel Holtz spoke with his longtime friend, Craig Jolley, manager of business development at ngage Marketing Services about what marketing automation does and the conditions that have led to its adoption.
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Craig Jolley is business development manager at ngage Marketing Services in Cincinnati, Ohio. Previous positions include an independent consultancy—Digital & Social Marketing Innovators—and principal/marketing director for CSJ2 Marketing Insight/Outbound Excellence. He was also web marketing manager for National City Mortgage and director of marketing and communications for Construction Software Technologies.
In the early to mid 1990s, Craig was the LexisNexis segment director tasked with introducing online research services to the PR, marketing and corporate communication markets.
Connect with Craig on Twitter at @csjolley
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Thursday, August 22, 2013
FIR Interview: Jean Valin and Dan Tisch on the Melbourne Mandate
At the World Public Relations Forum 2012 in Melbourne, Australia, almost 800 public relations practitioners endorsed the Melbourne Mandate, a call to action of new areas of value for public relations and communication management. It was co-created by 1,000 people from 30 countries over the course of a year.
In this FIR Interview, co-hosts Neville Hobson and Shel Holtz discuss this Global Alliance initiative with the two architects of the Melbourne Mandate, Jean Valin and Dan Tisch.
The interview begins with Valin and Tisch explaining what the Global Alliance is and its work.
The two men outlined the purpose and scope of the Melbourne Mandate and its set of roles, responsibilities and principles designed to provide practitioners with a new mandate to define and maintain an organization’s character and values; build a culture of listening and engagement; and instil responsible behaviours by individuals and organizations.
The wide-ranging conversation embraced discussion on the Mandate’s three pillars of character, responsibility - in particular, about trust and ethics - and listening; the Integrity Index, a tool designed to measure whether an organization lives up to its stated values in the minds of its internal and external stakeholders; and the Professional Development Wheel, a guide to the skills professionals need in order to practise to the full scope of the Mandate.
Valin and Tisch also spoke of the challenges in bringing the Melbourne Mandate to the attention of a wider audience within the public relations profession, and stimulating broader interest in it.
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About our Conversation Partners
Jean Valin, APR, FCPRS, founded Valin Strategic Communications after a thirty year career as a senior communication executive. He has advised senior officials and ministers of the Government of Canada on communication matters throughout his career.
Valin is active in his professional association, the Canadian Public Relations Society and served as its national president in 1996-97. He was awarded his accreditation (APR) in 1987 and was called to the College of Fellows in 2001.
In 2000, he became a founding member of the Global Alliance for Public Relations and Communication Management. He was Chairman for 2004 and 2005 and continues to serve as ambassador-at-large. In 2008 he received the President’s medal from the Chartered Institute of Public Relations in the UK and the Award of Attainment from the Canadian Public Relations Society in 2010 as well as in 2013 for his leadership in developing the Melbourne Mandate advocacy platform for public relations. He is a co-author of the official definition of public relations adopted by the CPRS in 2008.
Connect with Jean on Twitter: @jeanvalin1.
Daniel Tisch, APR, FCPRS, was the 2011-2013 chair of the Global Alliance for Public Relations and Communication Management, a Fellow of the Canadian Public Relations Society and CEO of Argyle Communications, one of Canada’s largest independent PR firms. He has lectured on public relations at Queen’s University since 1996.
Dan led the Global Alliance to unprecedented growth, co-chaired the Melbourne Mandate process and the 2012 World Public Relations Forum, launched the GA COMM PRIX Awards and represented the profession with the International Integrated Reporting Council.
Connect with Dan on Twitter - @dantisch - or read his corporate blog, Reputation and Reality.
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