Jeffrey Mann

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Entries from October 2009

Looking Forward to Cannes Symposium

October 29th, 2009 · 3 Comments

Really, I am — like you wouldn’t believe.
Not just because I have been working on it for months as the conference chair. Not just because I have some interesting presentations to deliver. Not just because I get to hear dozens of stories from clients about what they are doing with social software and [...]

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Journalists ask the darndest things

October 22nd, 2009 · 2 Comments

A journalist for an industry publication in Chile asked me some questions recently about Web 2.0 business models, when there doesn’t seem to be  a lot of business actually going on. Here are some of the edited answers.
Do you think it was a bad business decision for Google to acquire YouTube, in terms of the [...]

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Tags: Google · Twitter · microblogging · technology

Using Twitter at Events and Conferences

October 6th, 2009 · 16 Comments

We have been experimenting with using Twitter at several of the recent Gartner events. I have the most experience with the PCC conference in London, but have also been watching what has happened at the recent CRM, Enterprise Architecture and BPM conferences.
I started to collect some of the best practices we have found to [...]

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Tags: Events · Twitter · microblogging · symposium