While people have defined “thought leadership” in a variety of ways over the years, real thought leadership has never been as difficult to define as it is today. Today, in the age when everyone can have a bully pulpit, i.e. a blog, user generated content, Twitter, Facebook page, their own YouTube channel, etc., almost anyone can “position” [...]

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I love the title of this Bob Cramblitt blog where he likens the software dev phenomenon known as feature creep or scope creep to writing. I’m reminded of a previous blog posting I did on my new Citi PremierPass Elite Level World Elite MasterCard.  Good reading for all corporate writers. Bob also references one of [...]

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My mother had a saying she often repeated in Assyrian. I don’t know how to say it in Assyrian but the English translation was something like “Two people fall in love and decide to get married and the whole town goes crazy.” Well, for Lauren and Joe’s weekend wedding celebration, the guests at The Douglas [...]

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There have been some interesting stories over the past year that have really made my jaw drop. Board of directors who wired tapped their own employees to search out a spy, PR people who posted fake reviews and store employees who lied to customers about items in stock or prices just to add a few [...]

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Joe Chernov from Eloqua told a story here at the Digital Media Conference that I think is a good lesson for many companies approaching social media. While many companies are looking at social media as a way to speak directly to customers and other audiences, it is really about participating in the community. Joe related [...]

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Ironically, for a conference on digital and social media, the DMC 2011 event could benefit from being tremendously more social. In all fairness, DMC is not alone. Many conferences are still stuck in PowerPoint mode, with speakers pontificating to the audience who gets little chance to interact with the speakers and no opportunity to network [...]

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Every cool city has its hip neighborhood. New York City has SoHo. San Francisco has SoMa. And, San Mateo is joining the club with SoBe. South B Street. Running parallel to and one block West of the CalTrains tracks, B Street runs the width of downtown San Mateo and is arguably its liveliest street. A [...]

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Most every morning, during the work week, for the past six years, I’ve parked on the top deck of the public parking garage at the corner of El Camino and Second Avenue in downtown San Mateo.   Always facing South, I would take in the awesome view of the morning rising over the Peninsula with the [...]

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