Hello and a happy Friday to you. Please find the best articles from the past week. Please feel free to share and comment.
To your success,
Brian
This weeks best – Jan 19 thru 24
Hello and a happy Friday to you. Please find the best articles from the past week. Please feel free to share and comment.
To your success,
Brian Vellmure
http://www.brianvellmure.com
http://www.twitter.com/brianvellmure
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Strategy and Innovation
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How Can the Study of Complexity Transform Our Understanding of the World?
Big Questions Online aims to explore Big Questions of human purpose and ultimate reality and to foster thoughtful discussion of those top… -
Why Bitcoin Matters
Keith Bedford/Reuters Editor’s note: Marc Andreessen’s venture capital firm, Andreessen Horowitz, has invested just under $50 million in … -
Lessons from the death of a tech Goliath
Salesforce’s ascent and Siebel’s demise has long been characterized as a classic Silicon Valley tale of the little guy triumphing over th… -
The Real Threat to Economic Growth Is the Digital Divide
I spent last night in Davos talking about the two-speed recovery – not between the rich and the poor, but between the real economy and th… -
If You Doubt That Social Media Has Changed The World, Take A Look At Ukraine
When the Arab Spring erupted in 2010, one of the first things people noticed was the very visible role social media seemed to play. Many … -
Marketing
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Why marketing isn’t marketing anymore
When it comes time to hire a head of marketing, many of the tech entrepreneurs I’ve worked with and advised imagine bringing on someone who’s a master of SEO and A/B testing, who will drive millions of new visitors to their website. -
What Is All The Content Marketing Fuss About?
Content is definitely the new hype on the marketing block. What are the driving forces behind it, what are its limitations and will it dr… -
What’s Bigger Than Big Data?
I jokingly tell colleagues in the marketing world, that you can’t throw a professional marketer down a flight of stairs these days withou… -
Customer Experience
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NFL Focuses on a Better Customer Experience | Social Media Today
The NFL faces an interesting dilemma. Popularity is at an all time high, but attendance has been steadily falling for the past several ye… -
Omnichannel service unlikely to be realised in 2014 – report
A new report questions how realistic it is to expect omnichannel to be realised this year. -
Tech
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Every single item from this 1991 RadioShack flyer can now be done with a smartphone. pic.twitter.com/GRccW8oNhz
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About Brian Vellmure
For much of the last two decades, Brian has been helping B2B and B2C organizations across a variety of industries and sizes accelerate growth through customer focused transformation initiatives. He is an accomplished business leader, management consultant, keynote speaker, and an award winning syndicated blogger. He is often referred to as a Social CRM and Social Business thought leader & pioneer.
His thoughts have been featured in Forbes, Inc, CRM magazine and a host of other publications. He is a regular contributor to several additional media properties including Social Media Today, Social Enterprise Today, CustomerThink, the CIO Collaboration Network, and multiple Ziff Davis outlets.
In addition, he often serves as an expert advisor for technology vendors and their customers, providing thought leadership content, and market and product strategy guidance. Clients include IBM, SAS Institute, Microsoft Corporation, NICE Systems, Eloqua, Avaya, Marketo, SugarCRM, InsideView, and several startups.
Brian was a founding board member of International Princess Project, a social enterprise pioneer that helps restore hope & dignity to women formerly trafficked and/or enslaved in forced prostitution through a unique and sustainable organizational model. http://www.punjammies.com
Brian has traveled to more than 40 countries, is a real estate investor, and was an award winning NCAA Division 1 football scholarship athlete. He is is based in Orange County, CA.
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