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Big Social Data: The Next Frontier? 7 Apr 2012 | 02:52 am
Closing a chapter, opening a new one. The social media revolution has been an amazing ride. Social media made it suddenly possible for brands & movements foster engagement and connect with their commu...
EHRs and the Healthcare Productivity Paradox 8 Nov 2011 | 08:45 am
I think there are few places where opportunities for improvements are as great as they are in healthcare. Who hasn’t been hit by devastating healthcare news, treated poorly, or had the impression that...
Refresh: Top 50 Most Influential Cycling Bloggers: Celebrating the ‘Cycle Chic’ Movement 27 Aug 2011 | 01:48 am
Eurobike and Interbike are fast approaching, making the cycling industry just about insane. We’re also lucky to have the USA Pro Challenge hurling through the Colorado Rockies this week. I will have t...
Spotlight: The Good Work of Greenhouse Scholars 28 Apr 2011 | 03:07 pm
Every now and then, you meet people who really can and do change the world. On Thursday April 28, 2011, Extanz, along with 200 other guests will gather at the Denver Botanic Gardens for Glass Half Ful...
Real“ism” at 2011 South By Southwest Interactive #SXSWi #SXSW 17 Mar 2011 | 04:29 pm
Did you need to go to SXSW to find out what’s been happening in the last 12 months? Did you need to attend Clay Shirky’s keynote or hear about the gamification aka. Game layer of social media? – Just...
Whose words are they, anyway? 11 Feb 2011 | 04:06 am
Like in the non-virtual world, fights and squabbles are a part of online communities. After all, bloggers and tweeps are groups of like-minded people who have all congregated together in the vast spac...
Klout vs. the Blogosphere: What does it mean to be influential? 17 Dec 2010 | 11:24 am
For a long time now, we’ve had a pretty good idea of who was influential (generally based on the strength of their blog) and such influential bloggers also tended to be influential in other online sph...
How human should brands become? 2 Dec 2010 | 05:18 am
We, social media, as an industry, forget that the roots and outcomes of what we do lie in the realm of face to face conversation; that is, face to face conversation – its nature, effectiveness and acc...
The Art of Engagement 24 Nov 2010 | 10:58 am
To engage (as per Merriam-Webster dictionary): to attract and hold by influence and power; to interlock with, to mesh, to bind to something; to provide occupation for, to hold the attention of, to ind...
Cooks, Crooks and Social Media Ethics 18 Nov 2010 | 08:44 am
Like most people, I was taught as a young child that cheating is wrong and that you don’t want to do wrong things. In those days, cheating was clear: you didn’t look at other people’s spelling tests,...