Build your audience by sharing their ideals and beliefs – podcast

August 17, 2008

Episode three of the “Be the Voice” podcast stars two of the founders of The Conversation Group, Chris Heuer (Social Media Club) and Peter Hirshberg (Technorati). Summary (Chris Heuer and Peter Hirshberg): A company with all its employees blogging and talking with customers is more powerful than its sales force. It’s important to give employees […]

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Twitter Updates for David Spark (dspark) 2008-08-16

August 16, 2008

At WordCamp in SF with @olivermarks and @harrymccracken # Blog findability TIP! Technorati handles Categories and tags identically # Stephen Spencer of Netconcepts just gave a great presentation on SEO mistakes most bloggers make. PPT here: http://snurl.com/3gwf7 # Stephen Spencer’s article on 12 SEO mistakes most bloggers make: http://tinyurl.com/398rat # 50+ essays on viral marketing, […]

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Even the best description of your product can't beat a demonstration of your product – Be the Voice podcast

August 16, 2008

Episode one of the “Be the Voice” podcast stars VoIP industry thought leader and founder of iotum, Alec Saunders. What is the “Be the Voice” podcast? Interviews with individuals developing thought leadership for themselves and their organization to drive business growth. Subscribe to the podcast via iTunes Subscribe to the Be the Voice blog Here […]

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Is enterprise collaboration an oxymoron? – Be the Voice podcast

August 16, 2008

Episode two of the “Be the Voice” podcast stars enterprise collaboration consultant, Oliver Marks. What is the “Be the Voice” podcast? Interviews with individuals developing thought leadership for themselves and their organization to drive business growth. Subscribe to the podcast via iTunes Subscribe to the Be the Voice blog Here are some of the highlights […]

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Twitter Updates for David Spark (dspark) 2008-08-15

August 15, 2008

Writing more questions for a game show. Anyone got a tricky question about security (IT and physical)? # Beijing Olympics tech round up. http://www.sparkminute.com/?p=396 # Follow me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/dspark

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Beijing Olympic tech round up

August 15, 2008

From athletic gear to improve performance to spending way too much money just to show how powerful and successful China is, here’s a round up of some of the tech at the Beijing Olympics. Listen to John Scott and David Spark talk about Olympic tech on Green 960 (Time: 8:44) [Audio clip: view full post […]

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Do's and don'ts for utilizing social media for advertising, content, and commerce

August 10, 2008

On Thursday last week, I moderated a panel at the Building Blocks conference in San Jose about how to effectively use social media for advertising, content, and commerce. As we all know, we’re at a very nascent stage with social media across all three. But the panelists, who came from all three backgrounds (advertising, content, […]

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Is enterprise collaboration an oxymoron? – podcast

August 4, 2008

Episode two of the “Be the Voice” podcast stars enterprise collaboration consultant, Oliver Marks. Summary (Oliver Marks): Competitive enterprises fight collaboration. People don’t like each other and they’re competing for funding for their divisions. An open internal and exteneral editorial environment is necessary. C-level people aren’t reading blogs, but the people they trust are. Collaboration […]

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Even the best description of your product can’t beat a demonstration of your product – podcast

August 4, 2008

Episode one of the “Be the Voice” podcast stars VoIP industry thought leader and founder of iotum, Alec Saunders. Summary (Alec Saunders): The “Holy Grail” of “Be the Voice” communications is to build thought leadership using your own product. Give people the opportunity to see in action an applicable and fun use of your product. […]

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Stand up comedian vs. on-stage heckler

July 31, 2008

Comedian friend of mine, Joe Klocek, had a heckler who wanted to prove himself on stage. So the guy got up on stage and realized how tough it is being a comedian, and Joe showed him how good he is tearing him up. Really funny stuff. Very impressed with how Joe handled himself. I’ve got […]

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