Dave Taylor gave the keynote at the opening of the Thin Air Summit. And what an opening! He’s a pioneer in the use of the Internet, going back to the ’80s. With that experience comes a wise perspective. I found…
What happens when you put an Internet icon (Dave Taylor), a marketing expert at the crossroads of new media and old media (Dave Webb), and a digital immigrant who bridges top down with bottom up approaches (Kim Dority) on a…
After a two-week hiatus, I’m back online. It seems that all around me, change is in the air. Later this month, I’ll announce changes for A Bigger Voice, a shift in the focus of our efforts for 2009. In the…
It’s one thing to read someone’s blog over time. It’s another thing to see them speak in person. Jeremiah Owyang gave the keynote yesterday on the second (and last) day of the Thin Air Summit,with a talk titled, “The Future…
Our newest blogger is Bill Silverman, who has a gift for injecting humor at just the right moment, seeing the big picture, and working with the end in mind. When I told Bill that I would be writing this introduction…
While Simon Young is a new blogger for A Bigger Voice, he’s not new to blogging or social media. Simon is our resident Kiwi and lead on technology for A Bigger Voice. I first met Simon after he posted a…
Josh Bernoff, co-author of the book, Groundswell, and an analyst at Forrester, provides some fascinating data about the adoption of social media, hot off the Wordpress (or whatever his blog is built on.) What makes the data so valuable is…
I’ve been blogging since 2005. Blogging has become second nature to me. It’s a discipline and a pleasure (yes, it may sound like an oxymoron, but it’s not)that continues to provide unexpected dividends. After starting and maintaining three blogs and…
If I could have seen these trends ten years ago, I would be a rich woman today. These are some of the trends that triggered my interest in A Bigger Voice and the related questions I’m exploring: • User-generated content…
Bottom-Up vs. Top-Down Change in the Digital Age
I finally got it the other day when someone said that ABV is about creating change from the bottom up. It used to be that change could only come from the top down or required a massive organizational effort from…