Archive for October, 2009
Sarah Meenach of Bob Evans posed this question during the “Get Linked to LinkedIn” session on Tuesday afternoon. Attendees responded on a discussion thread in SOCAP’s LinkedIn group: http://bit.ly/1AWqoa If you are a member of the group, you can still go to the thread and post your comment… or use the comments thread below to [...]
There was not much social media action taking place during the Tuesday morning Spotlight sessions. Perhaps thumbs were hurting, as Barry Dalton noted on Twitter, or maybe people knew the sessions were being recorded. Still, we did manage to get a few takeaways from these sessions to share here on the blog: http://bit.ly/AHwMP. Thanks to [...]
On Tuesday morning, the general session featuring keynote speakers Emily Yellin and John Moore generated non-stop social media activity! Some of the attendees’ “most valuable lessons learned” came from this session—most notably, the observations about employee loyalty: Treat employees well and they will treat customers well.. We all think we do it, but do we? [...]
Trend guru Jeremy Gutsche’s advice, while applicable to marketers and CEOs, is just what we need: Make a cultural connection. Whether we’re fighting budget battles or striving to raise awareness of consumer insights, a cultural connection could be just what tips the balance. Unlike reports and presentations, cultural connections imply engaging your audience to think [...]
During the Monday afternoon general session, keynote speaker Matthew May focused on the leanness of elegance, challenging listeners to create a “Stop Doing This” list. Some attendees considered this the most valuable learning from the conference. We captured the live tweeting from this session in the comments: http://bit.ly/2eev2E. If you have any additional insights, feel [...]
During the Monday afternoon breakout sessions, live tweeters faced some technical difficulties. We got a few takeaways tweeted out from the session “Online Customer Service Evolved,” which we posted in the comments thread: http://bit.ly/DFXz7. If you have any additional takeaways from the Monday afternoon sessions, we’d love to hear them. Here are the sessions: Motivating [...]
Live tweeters were out in force Monday morning during the “Weathering the Economic Storm” breakout session. We captured the activity in the comments: http://bit.ly/18zkkw. Do you have any takeaways from other morning sessions that you’d like to share with others? You can use the comments thread to make additions. Here are the sessions: Weathering the [...]
The SOCAP Annual Conference kicked off with an exciting keynote presentation from Jeremy Gutsche of Trendhunter.com on using the economic chaos as an opportunity for innovation. SOCAP blogger John Cronce elaborated on the applicability of Gutsche’s keynote. And here are some comments from the #ancon09 Twitter stream: Failure and intentional distruction key to innovation.* (Question [...]
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