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Blogger of the Week: Amber Naslund

April 7, 2010 by Brenda Somich
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I read it, the birds sang and angels soared down from the heavens.  If you've been following the latest social media buzz, Nine Social Media Topics that Need to Die may be a blog of fresh air.  While interviewing Amber Naslund last week, I asked a question many of us may be pondering, "How can... [read more]

Blogger of the Week: Ardath Albee

September 13, 2009 by BrianRoger
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“I think I learned the most about really listening to customers when I was the general manager at Rancho Mirage Country Club,” says Ardath Albee, who blogs at SMToday community MyVenturepad.com, reflecting on her early years, running hotels and country clubs in the hospitality industry in California.  “It's kind... [read more]

Blogger of the Week: Augie Ray, Our First Second-Timer

August 30, 2009 by JerryB
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We've never had someone be Blogger of the Week twice--until now.  Augie Ray's  Eight Twitter Habits That May Get You Unfollowed or Semi-Followed was such a viral hit last week (nearly 35,000 views, 92 comments and God knows how many retweets since Tweetmeme seems to have gone suddenly unreliable) that we had to recognize him... [read more]

Blogger of the Week: Laurent Francois

August 3, 2009 by RickReno
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Consistent with the French intellectual tradition of the theatre du tete (theatre of the mind) Social Media Today community member Laurent Francois was blogging about media and society  when he was a student at the Institute of  Political Science in Lyon, France. But it is the ability to take the means of social... [read more]

Blogger of the Week - Gavin Heaton, Servant of Chaos

July 12, 2009 by BrianRoger
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“I particularly remember walking across the school yard and seeing our school captain Paul Davis—a tough, charismatic footballer—sitting with younger kids and singing to them while playing a guitar. I saw the kids mesmerized. I was amazed that this school celebrity was just hanging out and enjoying himself. And as I got closer... [read more]

Portrait of the Academic as Blogger: Robert Stavins is Blogger of the Week

June 9, 2009 by Robin Carey
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Environmental economics…. Is there a hotter topic these days?  With the billions allocated to one kind of green business or another, and  the real possibility of passage of the Waxman-Markey bill, officially the American Clean Energy and Security Act, which will establish a market for carbon trading and offsets (also... [read more]

Blogger of the Week- "Dirk The Cow" Singer

May 4, 2009 by RickReno
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Often times modesty is the best policy and that trait was key in our selecting Dirk Singer, a self proclaimed "digital immigrant," as Social Media Today's Blogger of The Week. Dirk joined  our community during its nascent days in October, 2007.  He didn't start posting right away due to his responsibilities as director and... [read more]

Blogger of The Week- Dave Brock, Conversation Starter

April 26, 2009 by RickReno
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  Some things in business are like a reliable compass that helps you find the way in any given situation. Old school IBM senior management training--with its emphasis on the big picture--is one of them. You sense that reading Dave Brock's post on sales managers and coaching over at sister site The Customer Collective, which we... [read more]

Does Any Blogger Have More Energy than Joe Romm? Our Blogger of the Week

April 5, 2009 by Robin Carey
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For over a year now, SMT has been the wrangler, on  TheEnergyCollective community, of some of the smartest minds from around the world blogging about energy policy and climate change.   Don't just take our word for it, The Times of London has named two of our bloggers to a short list of the best bloggers on energy, and in... [read more]

Blogger of the Week: Marc Gunther

January 28, 2009 by Robin Carey
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Last week, Energy Collective blogger Marc Gunther and I met face-to-face for the first time in Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates.  Marc was there to blog about the second World Future Energy Summit, billed by its organizers as “Davos for energy,” and his posts appeared both on TEC and Greenbiz.  Frankly, we... [read more]

Jill Konrath, Blogger of the Week

October 20, 2008 by Robin Carey
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By asking Jill to be blogger of the week, Jerry and I've decided to begin to highlight some of the leading bloggers from our sister sites, in this case, The Customer Collective, a community of leading sales bloggers, and about 4,000 or so other members, who are passionate about selling, and with apologies to Bismarck, “the art of... [read more]

Blogger of the Week - David Terrar, Middle-Aged Dog, New Tricks

July 6, 2008 by JerryB
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Being a really old dog myself, I love stories about aging rovers who master new tricks. Although he's considerably younger than me (almost everyone is), David Terrar, our Blogger of the Week, has been around the playground a few times. But, here, let David tell the story: "We started D2C back in 2004 because we were bored with... [read more]

Suarez Takes His Email Experiment to the New York Times

June 29, 2008 by KirkPetersen
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Former SMT Blogger of the Week Luis Suarez has a column in the New York Times today describing how he has drastically cut the amount of time and energy he spends on email, by making greater use of social networking tools.  SMT readers have been following Suarez's experiment for weeks -- most recently, Suarez shared a report on... [read more]

Blogger of the Week - Paul Dunay and Buzz Marketing

June 15, 2008 by JerryB
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If you've ever worked in marketing in a professional services firm (and I have), you'll know that daring and leading edge are not concepts you're likely to trip over much around the office.   At the two big accounting firms where I worked for many years, the objective was more to stay out of the news than to make a splash.... [read more]

Blogger of the Week - Emanuele Quintarelli, Enterprise 2.0 and La Dolce Vita

June 8, 2008 by JerryB
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Emanuele Quintarelli is a passionate Italian.  He loves sport cars, Greek philosophy and quantum physics.  He loves his girlfriend Francesca, good food, good wine and he loves living in Rome.  And, of course, he loves all things Enterprise 2.0."My passion for technology is not just about technology but also the impact it... [read more]

Blogger of the Week - Evidencesx Wins Friends and Influences People

June 1, 2008 by JerryB
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Social media is a lot like dancing.  It provides an opportunity for a kind of safe, ritualistic intimacy that might or might not develop into a deeper relationship.  You wouldn't just walk up to someone you didn't know and put your arms around them and start swaying around a room.  But dancing makes it okay. I thought... [read more]

Blogger of the Week - The Importance of Being Dennis

May 25, 2008 by JerryB
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If you don't find Dennis Howlett lovable and fuzzy the first time you meet him, don't fret too much.  You may not find him lovable and fuzzy on the second or third encounter either.  Not that he is rude or unpleasant---far from it--it's just that Dennis belongs to that peculiar breed of homo sapien known as the "... [read more]

Blogger of the Week - Brian Magierski, Dealmaker Extraordinaire

May 18, 2008 by JerryB
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Part Internet entrepreneur, part social media evangelist, part tech geek and a full-time technology deal maker, this week's Blogger of the Week, Brian Magierski, explores all topics on his generically named BKM Blog, coined for his initials. "My blog is evolving, though I'm not fully there yet," he says.  "For one thing, I'm hoping... [read more]

Blogger of the Week - Dan Greenfield and Bernaise Source

May 13, 2008 by JerryB
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Dan Greenfield doesn't remember whether it was 1991 or 1992 nor the name of the magazine where he first read about the internet and the coming digital revolution.  But, he remembers well, the "aha" moment it inspired. "It's the same feeling I got in 2005 after reading about the MySpace Generation in a Business Week cover... [read more]

Blogger of the Week - Maggie Fox

April 20, 2008 by JerryB
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This week's episode of Blogger of the Week asks the musical question:  can a cute-as-a-button-and-smart-as-a-tack gal from a town in north Ontario find success as the reigning queen of social media strategy?  If that gal is the unsinkable Maggie Fox, the answer is a resounding yes. "About three years ago, as... [read more]

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