Welcome to Social 501, the final post in a five-post series about mastering social to build your personal/professional brand eminence. Social 501: The Masters Class In the first four posts…

Welcome to Social 401, the fourth post in a five-post series about mastering social to build your personal/professional brand eminence. Social 401: Thought Leadership and Eminence Building In Social 301…

The sea change in social business engagement presses forward; however, development on Curatiant, the product I built to help guide companies in this transformation, will cease. It all began in…

Welcome to Social 301, the third post in a five-post series about mastering social to build your personal/professional brand eminence. Social 301: Managing Your Social Footprint In Social 201 we…

Welcome to Social 201, the second post in a five-post series about mastering social to build your personal/professional brand eminence. Social 201: Building Value with Twitter In Social 101 we…

Welcome to Social 101, the first post in a five-post series about mastering social to build your personal/professional brand eminence. Whether you are new to social or an old pro…

On 9 February 2011 I started circulating what was then a controversial tenet: Social media at a company should be open to everyone, not just a select few. I posited…

Today on social media day and in the wake of Facebook’s (successful or unsuccessful, you decide) IPO I pose the question, “Is Twitter too big to fail?”. Twitter is a…

Conversations between a social business and their alumni (read: customers) and partners should be, well, an actual conversation. Information should no longer be pushed out from the ‘social media suite’…

Idea: Create login profiles for mobile device operating systems similar to the login profiles for laptop and desktop computer systems. This creates the ability to segment applications, data and metadata…

Recently I had the opportunity to hear His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama speak in Dallas as part of the Hart Global Leaders Forum at SMU. The Dalai Lama, renowned…

Commercials are funny little things aren’t they? Sometimes hated, sometimes loved, sometimes searched for but mostly just ignored; commercials have become at times the bane of our existence. Outside of…

When Salesforce acquired Radian6 in March 2011 the social business world was all aflutter on what this meant for the cloud computing powerhouse and the Rolls Royce of social media…

Foursquare Day 2011 (4/16) was bigger, better and bolder (check out that #4SQDay badge!) than in 2010. With over 3MM check ins to the service that day Foursquare experienced their…

What if social media marketing was more about using your social graph to learn your socialnicity to better determine what products, services and brands you would be interested in and…

Ensuring that patients adhere to their specialty-drug therapy program is a manual, time intensive and sometimes ineffective task. The traditional methods of telephone calls and direct mail letters no longer apply to today’s social patient. The social patient needs to be connected within the communications medium they are most comfortable: social media. My idea reaches out and improves communication to the social patient: deliver program compliance reminders in a secure way (protect ePHI for HIPPA compliance) to the patient via a medium where they are most likely to consume the content.

December was a busy and professionally successful month for me as I was asked to co-present a session at Dreamforce ’10 and became a Salesforce.com Certified Consultant and a Salesforce.com Certified Administrator.

The Mayo Clinic Centre for Social Media (MCCSM) has crowdsourced the application process for the final 12 seats of their external advisory board. This blog post and associated video is my application.

Pharmaceutical manufacturers and wholesalers, Flu shot / medical providers and Foursquare product managers listen up; I have an idea for you!

Idea: Pharmaceutical companies and flu shot providers (or the CDC) should partner with Foursquare to create a Flu Badge that would be awarded upon a checkin including the phrase “flu shot”.

Foursquare product and business development managers listen up; I’ve got a great idea for you!

IDEA: Restaurants and retail locations should partner with Foursquare to offer DYM “Defend Your Mayorship” time-boxed discounts

Ferry boats and vineyards on the island

On our last day in Auckland we decided to take a ferry boat over to Waiheke Island and take in the beautiful scenery of the island and to wine and dine ourselves at MudBrick Winery and enjoy some more wine tastings before hoping on the flight home.

Rainforests, dance clubs and shopping

Arriving at the launch spot for our tour it all began to sink in for what we were about to do… we were about to take a tour in the caves of new zealand doing a combination of jumping, tubing, swimming and more all in an effort to see maggot secretions that glow in the dark while it was about 6 degrees centigrade outside (50 F) and with the water nearly freezing!

Te Puia, Huka Falls, and a fake geyser!

Upon arrival to Rotorua we drove out to the Agrodome to begin out adventure sports. First up? The zorb! For those not familiar with zorbing you are essentially placed into a huge plastic ball with a pseudo womb inside that is filled with some water (so you can fly around inside) and buffeted with air to cushion the ride down the hill. So, in 4 degree centigrade weather (thats about 40 degrees fahrenheit using a quick conversion) we changed into outré swimsuits and were driven to the top of the mountain to fall down it in our zorb balls!

What is wifi? Plus zigzags and ziggurats and sheep!

Abba + Madonna + Jet-lagged Americans + Kiwis = Awesome Wine Tour!

Vegan + Air New Zealand = Impressive!

My flight on 4 June 2010 to New Zealand from Los Angeles was my first time to ever cross the international date line. It is somewhat a weird experience to simply lose an entire day just by flying over a line; however, it does give me the advantage of being one of the first people in the whole world to see the sunrise each day!

For Noah’s 28th birthday I wanted to do something special, unique, and with a tie-in to his passion for things like recycling, reusing products, and reducing waste while at the same time surprising our guests and awakening them, and him, to a brand new experience that they have never witnessed. From here, the flavour tripping experience was conceived!

I recently posted a status update on my LinkedIn profile which said “I hope that fortune favours the bold as I am making some bold moves lately”. Today I received a response from one of my connections via my inbox which read “There are old pilots and there are bold pilots, but there are no old bold pilots”, a quote by Chuck Yaeger. My somewhat quick-witted response read “Well then let us be glad that I am not a pilot but rather an adventurer!”.

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