On Monday, the SDL acquisition of Alterian was officially announced. I will remain the head of the Social Intelligence Division for SDL, helping to roll out our solutions globally. This is an exciting time because of the tremendous assets that SDL has within its family. At Alterian Social, we’ve evolved our Social Media solutions beyond just social monitoring [...]
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New Beginning At SDL Allows Us to Dream Big
Posted in business, social media, tagged Alterian, SDL, social intelligence on February 2, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Three Social Thunderstorms: George Colony of Forrester
Posted in Digital Marketing, social media, tagged Forrester, George Colony on December 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Forrester CEO George Colony predicts the end of the web and the emergence of “post social”. What do you think?
#PleasantSurprises of your Lives
Posted in social media, society, tagged #PleasantSurprises, positive attitude, twitter on September 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The hashtags on Twitter can serve many purposes. Certainly, they help people filter for current topics of interest. It should be no surprise that #JobsSpeech is very popular today given President Obama’s speech earlier. Other hashtags can be just for entertainment/fun value. Some of these allow people to share interesting thoughts and experiences under a common theme. For example, [...]
Social Intelligence Will Provide Compelling Insights & Foresight
Posted in business, Digital Marketing, digital media, social media, tagged social dataset, social intelligence, social networking on June 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Social media is changing the way we interface with the web. Rather than searching (i.e. Google) for content, we are starting to read more and more content distributed from our social networks. As this trend continues, social intelligence will become increasingly important. This isn’t about just tracking brand mentions and daily volumes. Social intelligence will [...]
PART III: When 1+1 Can Equal Something Greater Than 2
Posted in business, Digital Marketing, entrepreneur, social media, tagged Alterian, Intrepid, John Song, lift9, Liz High, market research, Misia Tramp, social media on September 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
PART III: When 1 + 1 Can Equal Something Greater Than 2 We met at Wild Ginger for the first time in December, 2009. Misia Tramp and I talked about leveraging the available social media data for market research projects. She obviously knew her subject matter as she had been providing market research services through [...]
PART I: The Lift9 Story, Picking the WHO? First
Posted in business, entrepreneur, management, social media on September 5, 2010 | 2 Comments »
PART I: Picking the WHO? First I had an idea and a gut feeling. Social media data was going to be increasingly valuable. Yet, no matter how many social media monitoring tools entered the market to pull this growing mountain of data, it would never be of substantial value to businesses without human analysis, which [...]
The Signing: Acquired by Alterian
Posted in business, entrepreneur, social media, tagged Acquisitions, Alterian, Intrepid, lift9, M&A on September 3, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The Dominos Pizzas arrived while we were all scattered among the desks in front of the CEO office. It was late, nearing 10pm in the Alterian office in Bristol, UK. The “deal” team was frantically making the final changes to the stock purchase agreement, while others were trying to coordinate the signing of a wide [...]
Getting All I Asked For – Lots of Traveling
Posted in business, entrepreneur, social media, travel, tagged company building, culture, global business, Intrepid, lift9, management, social media research on August 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“Be careful what you wish for.” I was very specific when starting Lift9 (which has since become Intrepid Consultants) that I wanted a business that was global. I had a lust to travel again as I had done during most of the 90s when helping to build ARIS to its IPO in 1997. Last month [...]
Disruption Creates Opportunities
Posted in business, entrepreneur, social media, tagged Intrepid, iphone, market disruption, market research, social media on July 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Disruptive forces in history make impact that is long-lasting and change the status quo. We as humans walked and ran for majority of our history. Then, the invention of wheels disrupted our lifestyle and allowed us to be much more mobile. The Mongols disrupted the world by using horses in warfare. The US became a [...]
Video blog: Back in Vietnam where it Began
Posted in business, entrepreneur, social media, tagged globalization, Ho Chi Minh, Intrepid, lift9, social media, Vietnam on May 26, 2010 | 5 Comments »
The first video blog post. Would love any feedback.
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