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Let Your People Speak!

Paul Gillin

Blogs Are the New Trade Shows. Contributions to the company’s social media programs potentially reach a much larger audience than a presentation at a trade show. They go to the trade show because that’s what’s always been done. A couple of hours of media training does wonders.

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The Most Fun Class Ever

Paul Gillin

Ken Bungarda (T – 49ers) developed trading software for commodities traders and is now building a hedge fund. Todd Scott (DB – Vikings, Buccaneers and Chiefs and a Pro Bowler) runs a real estate services company with 50 properties under management.

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The Changing Rules of B2B Marketing

Paul Gillin

Hansen and colleagues Jeff Sullivan, Kong Yang and Dennis Smith are celebrities of sorts in the community of enterprise customers, who frequently seek them out for meetings at trade shows and during visits to the company’s executive briefing center.

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My Favorite Productivity Apps – Part One

Paul Gillin

Feature-wise, the apps don’t hold a candle to Microsoft Office, but the collaborative convenience is often worth the trade-off. My last two books have been written with co-authors, and Docs enabled us to share and edit each other’s work without the nightmare of version control.

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The Power of B2B Communities

Paul Gillin

Online friends frequently become real ones when they arrange meet ups at trade shows and events. . “Community isn’t just about discussing products but about getting to know each other and making friendships,&# says Nicholas Tolstoshev, a Spiceworks community manager.

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Book Review: Tales From a Veteran Blogger

Paul Gillin

Brill’s engaging and readable book is aimed at product managers, those corporate jacks of all trades who fret about everything from market research to customer support. That seems funny today, but at the time it was a bold test of new management principles that challenged IBM’s 100-year-old prohibitions against individual expression.

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The Appeal of B2B Social Networks

Paul Gillin

Online friends in B2B communities frequently arrange meet ups at trade shows and events. . “Community isn’t just about discussing products but about getting to know each other and making friendships,&# says Nicholas Tolstoshev, a Spiceworks community manager.