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- Creating Awesome Products and Services, Part II: Interview with Innovator Mike Harding - May 12, 2012
KKG (Kathy Klotz-Guest): Other than Apple, when we look at Silicon Valley - who is creating really innovative products? MH (Mike Harding): I would say Nest Labs. Tony Fadell, the founder, created the iPod. He came up with a non-obvious answer to a p...
- Creating Awesome Products and Services: Part I, Interview with Mike Harding - May 11, 2012
I recently chatted with Mike Harding, innovator and developer, about creating awesome new products and services. I met Mike when we both presented product and service innovation sessions at The 2012 Silicon Valley Product Camp at eBay in March. He has ...
- The Accounting Industry Gets Human. Seriously! - April 12, 2012
I had the pleasure of chatting recently with Bill Sheridan (Communications Manager and Editor) and Tom Hood, CPA (Executive Director) of The Maryland Association of Certified Public Accountants, known as MACPA, a top thought leadership blog in the acco...
- Storytelling and "Stellar Presentations": A "Non-Naked" Conversation with Shel Israel - April 4, 2012
I had the pleasure of chatting with my colleague and co-conspiring mischief maker, Shel Israel, about his latest book, Stellar Presentations. Shel and I first met as Founding Fellows of the new media research think tank, Society for New Communications ...
- Innovation, "Humanness," and Culture Stewardship - An Interview with "The New How" Author, Nilofer Merchant (Part II of II) - March 29, 2012
KKG: You and I both agree culture eats strategy for breakfast. AMEN! What’s the “breakfast of champions” that culture must have to thrive? Put another way, if there were two elements that created culture “oxygen,” what would they be? They...
- Innovation, "Humanness," and Culture Stewardship - An Interview with "The New How" Author, Nilofer Merchant (Part I of II) - March 20, 2012
The following blog post is a compilation from a Q&A with Nilofer Merchant. Nilofer, formerly the founder and CEO of Rubicon, is a corporate director at a NASDAQ-traded firm and a lecturer at Stanford. After working at Apple and Autodesk and with ma...
- Video Storytelling: Hey B2B Marketing, Lighten Up! An Interview with Tim Washer, Part II of II - March 19, 2012
KKG: Your success at IBM led to more of those videos and it became a serial effort. TW: Yes, 6 ‘Art of the Sale’ videos. We would improvise, and with my writing partner, Scott, we ended up doing a few longer ones. The best bet is to do things sh...
- Video Storytelling: Hey B2B Marketing, Lighten Up! An Interview with Tim Washer, Part I of II - March 19, 2012
An Interview with Tim Washer, Part I of II I had the pleasure of interviewing Tim Washer, Senior Marketing Manager Cisco, a little while ago on the topic of video, humor and storytelling. Prior to Cisco, he served as head of social media video pro...
- Millennials, Mirth, and Money: Making Gen Y Laugh and Learn Pays for Credit Unions, Post 3 - March 6, 2012
This is the third in a series of blog posts published on banking.com. Apps and games: Another great way to increase engagement is to offer fun mobile and web-based applications that help people manage their finances. Infusing applications and great ...
- Millennials, Mirth, and Money: Making Gen Y Laugh and Learn Pays for Credit Unions, Post 2 - March 5, 2012
This is the second post in a series of three published on banking.com. Video: Gen Y consumers watch a lot of online video (research firm ComScore reports the average American viewed over 23 hours of video in the month of December 2011) and, today, a...
