Paul Gillin

JANUARY 16, 2012

” As participation grew, BASF Chemical kept the momentum growing through a demo-oriented road show, presentations by guest speakers and community exchanges. Personal networks are formed by users for other users and generally relate to non-professional topics. “You want people inviting others to join the community.”

Peer-to-peer 50

Peer-to-peer Wiki Enterprise Management Communities 50

Paul Gillin

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Are prepared presentations permitted? Experienced speakers know the discomfort of sitting to the side while a person they’ve never met reads a 500-word introduction in a monotone. And don’t read from the bio; instead, paraphrase the bio and include a personal comment if you can. How long can each panelist speak? Be a time Nazi.

Tips 50

Tips Conference Rules Tactics 50

Paul Gillin

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Last month I attended Lotusphere and heard presentations by companies like 3M, Caterpillar, TD Bank North and Cemex about their successes in using Facebook-like technology behind-the-firewall. The social networking metaphor is increasingly expanding into the enterprise as a means to encourage knowledge-sharing among employees.

Enterprise Management 50

Enterprise Management Social Networks Webcast Paid Search Agency 50

Paul Gillin

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

I use a lot of video in presentations, and have always gotten good performance from the free Foxreal YouTube FLV Downloader. Most are free, all are bargains. Photo/video. We are all our own artists and layout editors these days, and with my crummy graphic design skills, I need all the help I can get. I have dlvr.it

Skype 50

Skype Product RSS Copyright 50

Paul Gillin

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Mary Meeker of Morgan Stanley sees smart phone shipments surpassing PCs in 2012 ( Here’s the video of her terrific presentation ). Google’s Eric Schmidt made an interesting point : smart phones are actually more useful than PCs because they know more about the user, including location, and can deliver a more personal level of utility.

Web 2.0 50

Web 2.0 Internet Marketing Mobile Marketing Marketing Proposals 50

Paul Gillin

OCTOBER 31, 2011

McAfee : Why does the physical world present such challenges? A third thing is to make sure that information is available always from every corpus, whether it’s your personal information, information in books or information that’s on the Web. Brooks : It’s easy to get a plane to fly from Boston to Los Angeles.

Barriers 50

Barriers Google Differentiation Research 50

Paul Gillin

APRIL 4, 2012

Personalize introductions. He then asked each person to share one little-known fact about himself or herself. One of the worst parts about many business dinners is that they drag on for hours and no one wants to be the first person to stand up and say goodbye. Anything to improve lines of sight between diners.

PR 50

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Paul Gillin

JUNE 24, 2010

I’m particularly interested in your feedback on this chapter because it presents some new ideas I’ve been playing with about how to calculate the ROI of almost anything. In the case of the sales rep, we must be able to predict with reasonable certainty that the person can generate $2 million in incremental business in year one.

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