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Sunday, May 17, 2009
FIR Interview: Jason Goldberg, XING
What your community can tell you about R&D is the basis behind Ship It!, a business model introduced earlier this year to XING by Jason Goldberg, it’s Chief Product Officer who joined the company earlier this year after his Web 2.0 startup, SocialMedian, was acquired by XING in December 2008.
Based in Hamburg, Germany, XING is a social software platform and social network, originally founded as Open/BC. It competes directly with LinkedIn.
In this FIR Interview, recorded at Somesso London 09 on May 15, 2009, Neville Hobson and Jason Goldberg discuss the concept of Ship It! and how it can be applied to people and organizations elsewhere.
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Jason Goldberg’s sparse bio on his Twitter profile describes him as having “started a tech company in 2004; did ok with it. trying again.” Let’s add a bit to that.
Prior to joining XING, Jason founded and led two Web 2.0 startups. He is the founding entrepreneur and visionary behind Socialmedian, the leading innovator in social news, and Jobster, the leader in web 2.0 recruitment services. Before founding Jobster, Jason led Strategic Planning & Alliances for T-Mobile USA and before that held management positions at AOL Time Warner.
Jason is a frequent public speaker on Web 2.0, social media, employment issues, and recruiting industry trends. He has been featured on CNN, CNBC, Fox Business News, and in the Wall Street Journal and USA Today. From 1993 to 1998 Jason worked at the White House in Washington D.C., the final two years as senior aide to the White House Chief of Staff, Erskine Bowles. He worked for Bill Clinton in a series of leadership roles from 1991 to 1998 before embarking on his current career in business.
Jason received an MBA from Stanford University and holds a BA with honors from Emory University.
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- Related podcast – FIR Speakers & Speeches: Jason Goldberg, CEO, Jobster.com. April 20, 2006
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
FIR Interview: Mathys van Abbe, Mobypicture
At the Somesso London 09 corporate social media conference in London on May 15, one of the features will be a Twitter-based backchannel, a medium through which conference participants can share commentary and opinion with fellow participants and with others not present at the event.
The backchannel will be made possible by photo sharing service Mobypicture. In this FIR Interview, Neville Hobson discussed the idea of such a backchannel with Mobypicture CEO Mathys van Abbe. Their conversation addressed how it will work at Somesso London 09, developments in online content-sharing including the potential in organizations, and more.
[FIR Listeners can win a free ticket to Somesso London 09. Hurry - contest closes today.]
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Based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Mathys van Abbe is a web entrepreneur since 1995 currently involved with a number of companies and startups like Mobypicture, Toading, Startpix and Spot2.be. The headquarters of his activities is an old ship in the canals, right in the heart of Amsterdam.
Mathys studied astronomy and computer science at the time he was starting his first company. In 2000, at the peak of the Internet Bubble, he lived in Silicon Valley and knew he wanted to be an internet entrepreneur. He’s a big API evangelist, loves mashups, co-creation, kayakking, diving and skiing.
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Friday, May 01, 2009
FIR Interview: Jeremiah Owyang, Senior Analyst, Forrester Research
In this FIR Interview, Shel Holtz and Jeremiah Owyang discuss Jeremiah’s new research report, “The Future of the Social Web.” (Jeremiah blogged about the report on his Web Strategy blog.)
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Jeremiah serves the Interactive Marketing professional for Forrester Research, with a focus on social media marketing. His primary coverage within Social Computing focuses on online communities, social networks, blogging, and micromedia. Secondly, he focuses on how companies organize for Social Computing, including roles, processes, and organizational structure. Before joining Forrester, Jeremiah led the social media marketing program on the client side at Hitachi Data Systems from 2005-2007 as the online community marketing manager, then left to join PodTech Network in 2007, an online video and podcasting vendor, as the director of corporate media strategy. Jeremiah practices with the tools he covers and according to Technorati, he is one of the top 1% of bloggers and is very active with his 40K-plus Twitter community. His focus on Social Computing for the Interactive Marketing professional at Forrester has published reports on social networks, communities, and emerging technologies. Jeremiah has a bachelor’s degree from San Francisco State University, with a focus on marketing.
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Wednesday, March 04, 2009
FIR Interview: Wendy Arnott and Steven Green on The Hive at TD Bank
In this FIR Interview, Shel Holtz talks with Wendy Arnott and Steven Green on how The Hive breathed life into a customer service initiative among employees at TD Bank Financial Group in Canada.
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At TDBFG, Wendy Arnott leads internal and external communication for both TD Canada Trust, TD’s Canadian Retail Bank which has 10 million customers, 1,100 branches across the country, and more than 35,000 employees; and for TD Wealth Management, an organization of more than 5,000 employees providing Financial Advisory and Discount Brokerage services to more than 1 million customers in Canada and the USA. Wendy has been with TD for five years. In her 25 year career she has held several senior communication positions including being a principal in Mercer’s Toronto Communication Practice. Wendy is accredited with IABC and has a BA in Political Science. She lives in Mississauga, Ontario with her husband, 15 year-old son and 11 year-old daughter.
Steven Green is the founder of PollStream Inc., a leading provider of interactive engagement and community building solutions. Steven built PollStream with the intention of helping global companies to engage their customers and employees in measurable and meaningful two-way dialogue. Steven has become a valuable resource to key decision makers as they explore the growing field of online dialogue and social media. With an impressive roster of clients, such as The US Navy, TD Bank, eBay, and Best Buy, Mr. Green continues to grow PollStream’s reputation as an innovator of online solutions designed to segment, engage and inform. Steven has a BA from McGill University in Montreal and a Social Work degree from York University in Toronto.
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Thursday, February 05, 2009
FIR Interview: Lee Aase, The Mayo Clinic
In this FIR Interview, Shel Holtz talks with Lee about the origins of social media at Mayo, the role of Legal and other departments in supporting his efforts within the conservative and highly regulated healthcare environment, and the launch of Mayo’s latest social media property, a culture-focused blog.
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Lee Aase is manager of Syndication and Social Media for Mayo Clinic. His team’s focus is developing quality medical news resources for mainstream media, and using social media applications to create more in-depth, extended relationships directly with key stakeholders. You can see examples of Mayo Clinic’s social media offerings through the Mayo Clinic News Blog at http://newsblog.mayoclinic.org/ or at Sharing Mayo Clinic, http://sharing.mayoclinic.org/.
By night, Lee is Chancellor of Social Media University, Global (SMUG), a free online higher education institution that provides practical, hands-on training in social media for lifelong learners. Visit SMUG at http://social-media-university-global.org
Prior to joining Mayo Clinic in 2000, Lee spent more than a decade in political and government communications at the local, state and federal level. He received his B.S. in Political Science from Mankato (Minn.) State University in 1986.
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Wednesday, January 21, 2009
FIR Interview: Jack O’Dwyer
Jack O’Dwyer is widely recognized as a voice of influence in, and a critic of, the public relations profession in the United States as well as an observer and journalist focused on the profession.
His firm, The O’Dwyer Company, has been covering PR, marketing communications and related fields for 40 years. The company provides news and information about PR firms and professionals, the media, corporations, legal issues, jobs, technology, and much more through its website, weekly newsletter, monthly magazine, directories, and guides.
In this wide-ranging FIR Interview, co-hosts Neville Hobson and Shel Holtz engage in conversation with Jack O’Dwyer, addressing topics as diverse as a definition of public relations, the current state of PR, changes in PR and journalism, the role of associations such as PRSA and IABC, and more.
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Jack O’Dwyer is Editor in Chief at O’Dwyers, the company he founded in 1968. He majored in English with a minor in economics at the University of Connecticut, graduating in 1956. He worked at the Connecticut Post as police and labor reporter until 1961 and then joined the New York Journal-American, then the biggest afternoon newspaper in the US, as a financial writer. Later, he became New York ad columnist for the Chicago Tribune from 1968 until 1972.
While writing for the Trib, he started the O’Dwyer newsletter in 1968. The monthly magazine followed in 1986 and the website came in 1998. Since 1970, his company has produced the annual O’Dwyer’s Directory of PR Firms, currently listing about 2,000 firms. Odwyer’s also publishes the PR Buyers Guide each January as part of the magazine, listing about 1,000 PR services in 57 categories.
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Thursday, January 15, 2009
FIR Interview: Martin Murray, Public Service New Hampshire
FIR correspondent Dan York interviews Martin Murray, primary spokesperson for utility Public Service New Hampshire, about the use of social media as a communication channel during a recent ice storm.
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Martin Murray is the Senior Corporate News Representative at Public Service of New Hampshire (PSNH), the Granite State’s largest electric utility. He is responsible for maintaining positive relations with members of the media and serves as the company’s chief spokesperson. He also manages content for the company’s website, and has worked to provide opportunities for customers to interact online with PSNH through the use of social media tools.
Martin served previously as the New Hampshire Bar Association Public Outreach Coordinator, and as News Director at New Hampshire Public Radio from 1988 - 1992.
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