Yesterday I delivered a keynote presentation at Enterprise Connect in Orlando, where touched upon the importance of in-person communications. I’ve recorded a video where I reflect further on how in-person communications are key to business leaders who are dealing a whole new set of business imperatives for success — solving complex problems quickly, effectively scaling partner interactions, growing customer relationships, enabling agile innovations. A powerful way of driving innovation and transforming key business processes is by engaging the experience, perspectives and knowledge of colleagues and individuals across your business community via in-person communication and collaboration.
Leveraging social networks for maximum exposure and engagement has become integrally important for marketers. Use the following data to find out the best times to post to Twitter and Facebook.
Data is from the great work done by Dan Zarrella (@danzarrella) and HubSpot. View the webinar by Dan Zarrella for a more indepth look at the science of timing for social networks here. Infographic created by KissMetrics.
I know we’ve been talking about new MPI-3 things for forever. But this is the last list of new things.
I promise.
Really.
I can say this with certainly because the Forum’s March meeting was the deadline for all new proposals to make it into the MPI-3 standard. Anything else will have to be in MPI-<next> (where <next> may be 3.1, or 4, or …11. Shrug).
Because of the deadline, we had a blizzard of proposals finally get into shape to be presented to the entire Forum. Let’s talk about some of the more interesting ones…
Recently I was chatting with a couple of people at an event in Shoreditch about what makes a creative industry cluster — such as Silicon Alley and the East London Tech City — flourish and grow. We concluded that there are some key ingredients required to fully develop the community; the presence of Big Tech, legal, accountants, VC’s, and of course start-ups operated by savvy entrepreneurs.