June 21, 2010

Gatorade’s Social Media Command Center

If you're anything like me then every time you see CTU headquarters, the White House Situation Room or any other fusion center-styled office space, you wish you could have a similar set up.  Imagine if you could have your own Situation Room to monitor everything going on online around you and/or your company.  I'm sure you can immediately think of how you would arrange it, right? Maybe a tool like Radian6 on one screen, Twitter on the other, a cool visualization chart that you're not really sure what it does on yet another screen, multiple keyboards, touchscreens, iris scanners, fingerprint readers, and other cool gadgetry.  Ok, maybe I got a little carried away.  Until earlier today I thought this was a far-fetched dream of mine until I came across an interesting Mashable post highlighting what Gatorade is up to.

August 8, 2009

The Power of a Note

One of the most powerful communications tools still remains the pen and paper. While technologiespentopaper such as blogs, video and photo sharing sites, and phones that can capture and post all of that content, have helped to create a 24/7, always-on communications and news cycle, it has only enhanced how powerful a simple pen and piece of paper can be. Now, you're probably starting to reach this post and think I'm insane. But, what I'm referring to is not writing memos, or publishing newspaper articles, capturing notes during a meeting or anything like that. I'm talking about the power that a simple hand-written note can wield. Notice, I did say hand-written.