In a great speech from TED global 2009, Daniel Pink discusses the issue of motivation and incentives. See the speech here: [youtube=] Pink describes the “candle problem” as a classic model of when incentives work and when they actually hinder…
Neon Open Sign Originally uploaded by gregmeyer Are you open to new ideas? Do you spend some of your time every day thinking about divergent or weird things? Have you challenged yourself to question the ways things are done lately?…
It’s a crazy internet meme — you’ve probably seen the Blendtec guy already — but when I saw him destroy an iPad today, it gave me an idea. Blendtec’s literal blending of an iPad made me think of the way…
[slideshare id=3339686&doc=socialcrmthenewrulesofrelationshipmanagement-100304181215-phpapp02&type=d] Organizations are getting social, whether they like it … or not. In their report “Social CRM: The New Rules of Relationship Management“, Altimeter Group‘s R “Ray” Wang and Jeremiah Owyang detail 18 use cases to help businesses react…
Adam Penenberg, in his new book Viral Loop, discusses the concept of spreading a message with a viral coefficient of greater than one. It’s simple, really – tell some friends, and if they end up telling lots of their friends,…
The last day or so, I was trying to figure out what not to write about the iPad. Would I not write that it was like an iPod/iPhone, only bigger? Would I not write that it should have had handwriting…
Which conversation would you rather have? Initial exchange with a friend: “Would you try my new product/service/idea?” Response: “Of course, it’s great! I love it!” 2 Weeks later. Asking the friend again: “Are you still using my new product/service/idea” Response:…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIFYPQjYhv8&hl=en_US&fs=1&] I took a vacation this week. It was relatively short (don’t blink — you’ll miss it), but I learned some important things along the way. I read Erik Qualman’s book Socialnomics: How Social Media Transforms the Way We Live…
I’ve now got 500 (probably 800) channels and there’s nothing on. Well, I’ve overstated the fact. I have about 30 movie channels, at least 7 channels dedicated to major sports leagues, and innumerable shopping, food, and car chase channels. I…
