Following on from my recent post about trends to watch in 2011 (now apparently to be called 2K11), thought I would post about a site worth watching in 2011. I first came across about.me from a link on a person’s twitter bio that directed me to a profile at the site. The simplicity of about.me [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted December 21, 2010
in social footprint, social media
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Tagged 2011, 2K11, about, about me, aboutme, aggregation, analytics, aol, AOL acquires about.me, custom profile, dashboard, digital footprint, early adopter, facebook, faebook, flavors, flavors.me, flickr, google, linkedin, name search, one to watch, personal analytics dashboard, personal branding, reputation management, seo, slideshare, social brand, social branding, social footprint, social profile aggregation, trends 2011, twitter, twitter bio
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There is a great Social Media conference being held in London next week and looking at the conference program, it looks like being a great event and very timely. From their website… Europe’s leading social media event. Two day event featuring four dedicated conference streams, workshops and exhibition to be held at Olympia conference centre in [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted March 12, 2010
in social media
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Tagged #SMWF, #ukelection, @SocialNetworkWF, barclaycard, Bebo, COI, facebook, Ikea, linkedin, london social media conference, Marks & Spencer, Mercedes-Benz, orange, social media conference, social media forum europe, twitter, UK Election, Virgin Atlantic
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Many you reading this post are probably are aware of the product adoption curve – an example is shown below (from Wikipedia). It is based on Everett Rogers Technology Adoption Lifecycle model - here is a quick refresh below. Summarising the curve in words – from Kzero’s blog Innovators are brave people that are willing to [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted March 6, 2009
in thought leadership
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Tagged Crossing the Chasm, dabr, delicious, ealy adopter, early majority, Evertt Rogers, faebook, flickr, Geoffrey Moore, innovator, Jane Fonda, laggard, late majority, linkedin, mobile, new technology, technology adoption curve, technology adoption lifecycle model, technoogy adoption curve, tweetdeck, twitter
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I read with interest in the Financial Times on Wednesday that Linkedin.com, the business networking site is now valued at more than $1Bn following some recent investment from Bain Capital. The article contrasts the $15bn valuation for Facebook implied by a Microsoft investment of $240m last year and the $580m News Corp paid for the parent company [...]
I came across a new site called dopplr.com via another blog reference, and also featured in the Guardian. For those familiar with twitter, which essentially tells you where your friends are and what they are doing, dopplr takes this concept into a business context and allows connected business travellers to share their travel plans – so [...]
Also published on the Sydney Morning Herald website By BRAD HOWARTH (reprinted below with permission) May 16, 2006 One of the hardest parts of taking a new technology into a foreign market is finding the right people to talk to. Trade shows and government agencies play their parts but without personal introductions to the right parties, [...]
Back in February, I was introduced to LinkedIn by my boss David Burden. Since then I’ve grown my network of trusted business contacts to over 120. With linkedin, you can wash your own Outlook contacts with those using Linkedin. When I joined I did this and found over 35 people I already knew were using the [...]
