Originally posted on David Armano’s blog.
I recently gave a talk, or more like a “therapy” session with Mullen’s Chief Innovation Officer Edward Boches at the MIMA Summit in Minneapolis. A fantastic event populated by some of the most innovative companies in the world including Target, 3M and Best Buy. I have a bias when it comes to “innovation” that people tend to hyperfocus on what Google’s Avinash Kaushik called…
BBC News has revealed that the British Government has spent, or proposed to spend, somewhere between £10,000 and £40,000 on developing phone applications. One of the apps, a job seeker’s tool, has been downloaded 50,000 times and a Motoring Masterclass application proposed by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency sounds genuinely unique and useful in that it calculates fuel efficiency, tracks the proximity of a highway rescue organisation, and can be used as an emergency hazard light -…
We have a late-breaking Friday Five today that functions as the best kind of Ask the Experts column. When you need to know the latest and greatest on some of the most prominent social tools in the digerati arsenal, these five sources are the folks to read.
Foursquare’s company blog is updated only a few times a month with information about system upgrades and random musings from founder @dens, to get a more in depth look at the happenings at Foursquare I check out
This is part two of the guest posting series between David Armano (Edelman Digital) and Gia Lyons (Jive Software). Read part one here.
Over the past couple of years, I’ve worked with several clients to plan and implement employee- and customer-facing social business initiatives. I’ve found it ironic that, while many enterprises decide to implement social business software and encourage…
In the shadow of Austin’s annual South by Southwest (SXSW) Music, Film and Interactive Festival, a less prominent – but no less passionate – group of health social media experts and enthusiasts met in March for the Social Health 2010 Conference. They gathered to discuss how health organizations engaging in social media are addressing not only regulatory issues, but also logistical concerns such as the time and costs involved in maintaining social media programs.
Participants from around the country represented a…
SXSW was a gathering of innovative companies, forward thinking people, and interactive influencers. While I didn’t have a chance to talk to all 15,000 attendees, I was able to speak to a few choice companies that have progressive products in the social media and technology realm.
Antony McGregor, CEO of QM Codes, talked to me about how companies are using QR codes to integrate multimedia…
The Dictionary program is perhaps the most useful (and overlooked) application that comes pre-installed on most Macintosh or Windows computers. For this trained scribe, the tool is more than just a way to look up words. It’s actually my muse.
As the Edelman Digital leadership team codified our positioning, I found myself turning to the Dictionary app over and over again for inspiration. Here’s a quick summary of how Oxford defines authentic:
When one dives head-first into each bullet, the second one —…
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