Business/Marketing

Common Craft Store Launches

Lee and Sachi at Common Craft have launched a very cool concept: The Common Craft Store where you can buy licensed versions of their amazing video content. Here’s their story on why they launched it:

Why have you created the Store? I thought your business was making videos for companies?
We often hear from individuals who know [...]

Universal McCann’s senior VP-director of forecasting, veteran Robert Coen:
“I can’t deny it anymore,” Mr. Coen said. “Things are pretty bad.”
Sorry I must have missed it…. was this the state of creativity in the advertising industry or just overall
ad sales? Oh wait, there’s not much difference between the two.

Jobs Update - tons of new, tasty community positions open!

It’s that time again - the lightning update for the Community Guy Jobs Portal!
Job seekers
Online News/Content Media Professional (Southeastern US)
Social Media Video Producer, Distributor, & Consultant (Boston, MA)
Online Community Moderator Manager looking for extra work (Ohio)
Manager of Online Communities (Washington, DC)
Internet Strategist (Orlando, Florida)
Web Strategist (Washington, DC)
“community person”/blogging black-belt for hire (New York, NY)

Meet more [...]

Announcement: Partnering with OCRN

One of the best things about my job (and this industry) is that I get the chance to work with truly kindred spirits. The people who are honestly and truly excited about social media are some of the greatest folks around. Last summer
Today I’m happy to announce that I’m partnering up with ForumOne to lend [...]

Kindle for book reviewers?

In the course of a month, I usually get one or two advanced review copies of books about community/social media/business strategy/web culture. It’s fantastic that so many authors and publishers have me on their lists, so for that I have to say thanks!
The problem with getting this many books in my mailbox is that I [...]

Community lessons from Heather Champ

I’ve been meaning to post this for a while - Heather Champ, Flickr’s community manager shares some community lessons. Good stuff.
(Thanks to Brian for the pointer)

9 tips for creating a great customer collaboration session

Last week’s trip to Seattle for the Microsoft for the Microsoft Technology Summit 2008 got me thinking about the power of bringing customers and employees together for open discussion. There’s been an up tick in both the creation of events like this, as well as the debate about whether they yield any real value. As [...]

How to get profiled on TechCrunch

At SWSWi, one of my many hallway conversations revolved around the trouble of getting profiled on TechCrunch. My fellow “mobile panelist” (thanks Chris Heuer for that term) said something like:
“If you don’t get profiled when you launch, you’ll never get profiled on TechCrunch. If they can’t point to their early coverage of you, they think [...]

What is Open-Innovation exactly?

What is Open-Innovation exactly? That’s the question that Dub Studios spotlights.
Henry Chesbrough is Executive Director of the Centre for Open Innovation, a unit of the Institute of Management, Innovation, and Organization at UC-Berkeley, and leading figure in the world of innovation and open-innovation per se. Here’s what they have to say on the subject;
Open [...]

Microsoft Technology Summit ‘08

Chris: “How would you like to attend the Microsoft Technology Summit in Redmond?”
Me: “I use a Mac and don’t do development, you sure?”
Chris: “That’s fine, that’s what the event is about… getting diversity of opinion.”
And here I am in Seattle (Redmond, WA actually) as part of the group of 50 meeting with a variety of [...]