If you’re in Dallas, or you don’t mind coming to town, I’ll be speaking to the DFW BMA on Monday, March 23. The DoubleTree Hotel Dallas. Dallas, TX 75244. Are you coming? Making money is easy, just ask your customers. Making money is easy. Your customers and clients are telling you every day how to do it, but too many companies are caught up in “doing business&# to hear them. MORE

Given that I couldn’t attend, I have been watching the Twitter stream quite closely and am following the blog posts that are emerging now that delegates have managed to return home after being stuck in Dallas in an unexpected ice storm . After 2 years of MOOC mania, the time has come for increasing the output of MOOC research. But what direction is that research taking – what direction should it take? MORE

And in true geek style, I spent the rest of the day driving all over the Dallas metroplex trying to complete the line. Moving. A two year old. Co-owning a new business. Selling a house. Let’s say that things have been busy lately. Blogging has been slow, so as I was cleaning up my desktop tonight I found something I thought I’d share. I submitted the story below to Fray for their “Geek&# theme. (It It didn’t make it). Please try not to make too much fun. —-. MORE

I then brought CBS Radio/Dallas into the fold and we brainstormed together – they added all the details, execution and creative to the program so it was a great partnership. We did the program in three markets – Dallas/Ft. This past spring, the North Texas Chevy Dealers worked with Velocity Marketing and CBS Radio to put together a very cool blogger outreach program. In short, the program targeted 5 moms. MORE

During a recent hotel stay at the wonderful Hotel Zaza in Dallas, I noticed two quotes written on the wall of my room. Both struck me as being particularly relevant to explaining the mindset a successful community manager has to own in order to do their job. The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. MORE

Years ago when I worked at NVision Design in Dallas, we held an afternoon event the last Friday of every month. If you’ve been watching my tweets lately, you’ve probably noticed quite a few mentions of my presence in Austin, Texas. MORE

Director, Leadership & Organizational Development Parkland Health & Hospital System 10/26/2009 Parkland Health & Hospital System (www.parklandhospital.com) located in Dallas, Texas has been voted one of "Americas Best Hospitals" by U.S. MORE

The team is based at the University of Texas at Dallas. The fad to chart massive amounts of data often leaves me (and others) shrugging. Cool pictures but. MORE

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week. I wish I was able to attend, but am glad that many of my clients have the opportunity to go. The conference is held every two years, and is always. MORE

We recently stopped in  Austin  for two days on the way back from a family event in Dallas. I got introdcued the Austin music scene last year during SXSW (see -  SXSW Notes: The Music Scene Part One: March 13 ). MORE

Dallas Moore cooks the chicken. Here is the eighth installment of our BBQ tour of the US South. The first one covered Louisiana and Texas. The second post covered Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina. The third covered North Carolina and eastern Virginia. MORE

Dallas Children's Hospital - have a system to allow parents and family members to share stories about their conditions and experiences. -. The second day of IBM Connect 2013 is just beginning. First up for most people is the keynote on the main stage. Some notes: Bob Picciano, GM, Information Management and Big Data. Three years ago Bob was the GM of the Lotus collaboration area. It's all just beginning again. For IBM and its customers. And for Bob - with a new GM role. MORE

They arent in Dallas but they are in Fort Worth. MORE

That’s right, after 6 years in Dallas, our family is moving to Seattle! Dallas has always been great to my career and my life. After a total of 12 years living in Dallas, I’ll miss it. MORE

My friend Adriaan Jooste is hosting an interesting KM Cluster meeting in Dallas this week on September 24. The DFW Value Network and KM Cluster will be held in Irving, Texas, 10 minutes from DFW Airport. The speakers include Adriaan covering KM Economics: What NOT to do in an Economic Downturn. Adraain is the Chief Knowledge Officer ? Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP. Karl Wiig , ?Chairman Chairman and CEO?Knowledge MORE

During a recent hotel stay at the wonderful Hotel Zaza in Dallas, I noticed two quotes written on the wall of my room. Both struck me as being particularly relevant to explaining the mindset a successful community manager has to own in order to do their job. The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. MORE

I have just returned from Agile 2012 in Dallas, Texas. I was thinking about what my takeaways were. We had a week’s worth of great Lean Coffees, I saw a few really compelling sessions, Joe Justice unveiled the new body style for the Wikispeed car. But outside the conference, on the first day, I got together with a small group of people to have a day-long conversation about “Agile” as a concept, a movement, a word. MORE

Louis to Dallas to Austin. This is my first time at SXSW and it takes a while to figure it out. I went to an interesting session my first night here. It was 20x2 “a SXSW Interactive tradition!” MORE

Echoing another Facebook feature — Microsoft owns a share of Facebook — workers can type a real-time status update on their profile page to let others within the organization know what they are up to, such as, "Meeting with sales team in Dallas." MORE

We both have left Dallas but we still keep in contact. Last week on the Ant’s Eye View blog, I posted an interview with Amy Krause from Velocity Marketing. Velocity, together with CBS Radio and the North Texas Chevy dealers built a very cool outreach program to get the word out about the new (and highly awesome) Chevy Traverse. To find out more about the program, check out the AEV blog post. MORE

Coming up from the beach I ran into Norma Dallas who owns the Bowen island Marina and we talked about what it feels like to be out on the water all alone on days like this. Just in from an hour SUPping around Mannion Bay and Miller’s Landing. MORE

After a couple of days off from my regular blogging activities, as I went on a business trip to Madrid for a couple of days end of last week to share some more thoughts and insights on social software adoption at an internal event, I am now back once more. MORE

The Dallas Twestival at Mockingbird Station will feature live music by local bands, food and drink, a raffle, WiFi, feeds from other global events, a free film at the Angelica Theater, a show at Hyena’s Comedy Club, and friendly, engaged Fort Worth and Dallasites united to “Tweet. MORE

occurs in Dallas on October 8. Here is an interesting meeting with some of my favorite speakers. The Social Enterprise:?Next Next Practices in Social Networks and Media. Karl Wiig , ? Chairman and CEO ? Knowledge Research Initiative and Adriaan Jooste , ? Chief Knowledge Officer? Deloitte  Deloitte Financial Advisory Services start off with The Social Enterprise:? A Conversation. Then Robin Hanson , ? MORE

We recently drove to a family event in Dallas and then stopped at Austin for two nights of the music scene on the way back. Going there we stopped at Eddie's BBQ at a truck stop near Alexandria LA. MORE

Last week I shut down my laptop at the office, drove 20 minutes to my presentation at the BMA Dallas, and turned on my laptop when I got there to prepare for my talk. Nothing. No video, minor hard drive spinning, nothing. After winging it during the talk, I headed to the Apple store. The next Genius Bar appointment was nearly 5 hours away. MORE

I then brought CBS Radio/Dallas into the fold and we brainstormed together – they added all the details, execution and creative to the program so it was a great partnership. We did the program in three markets – Dallas/Ft. This past spring, the North Texas Chevy Dealers worked with Velocity Marketing and CBS Radio to put together a very cool blogger outreach program. In short, the program targeted 5 moms. MORE

In this interview Tuttle talks about this work as follows: I was doing white paper octagons on a wall at a museum in Dallas. Anna Lovatt opened the symposium on The Materiality of Nothing at Lancaster University by discussing the work of Richard Tuttle. MORE

startups such as $15million that Sequoia Capital recently invested in Portland based Jive Software , and $20million from Intel Capital which was invested in Telligent , a Dallas, Texas, company. For many people the positioning of Enterprise 2.0 as a cost reduction engine is not new. Complexity reduction, efficiency increases and fast response times have been the cornerstone of many Enterprise Social Software pitches in the last 5 years. Enterprise software spending has recently crashed. MORE