Paul Gillin

JANUARY 16, 2012

Effective deployment strategies demand a mix of promotion, training and tolerance of the adoption strategies that employees choose. When building a collaborative workplace, a “build it and they will come” attitude is a recipe for disappointment.

Peer-to-peer 50

Peer-to-peer Wiki Enterprise Management Communities 50

Paul Gillin

JUNE 29, 2011

One smart move was to prominently note that the resource is “ Powered by KnowHow ,&# which is a training service the company offers. In fact, the company name is in almost comically small type at the top of the home page. It’s a low-key approach to branding that uses the quality of the content to validate the service.

Social Marketing 50

Social Marketing B2B Marketing B2B B to B 50

Paul Gillin

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

A couple of hours of media training does wonders. Not really. Corporations are far too sensitive to the indiscretions of individuals, which usually can be sidestepped with an apology or explanation. Blogs Are the New Trade Shows. The issue of time commitments and availability is valid, but usually overstated.

Trade Show 50

Trade Show Youtube Statistics Social Media 50

Paul Gillin

JULY 15, 2011

They are delegating social interactions to one person, but they’re shortcutting the learning process by hiring people who can train others. Nearly every company I’ve encountered that is succeeding in social media has a center of excellence. What’s your approach? Read more and comment on BtoBOnline.

Case Studies 50

Case Studies Case Study Studies BtoB 50

Paul Gillin

OCTOBER 21, 2010

When I look back at my own output over the last four years – four books, 190 articles, nearly 1,000 blog entries, 300 podcasts, more than 50 webcasts and a busy speaking/training schedule – I marvel at the role that cheap and free technology has played in making me more productive.

Product 50

Product Co-Registration Webcast Work Management 50

Paul Gillin

DECEMBER 1, 2010

It has racked up more than 75,000 Facebook fans and 50,000 downloads for what is essentially a B2B training and marketing tool. It has racked up <a href=&# [link] than 75,000 Facebook</a> fans and 50,000 downloads for what is essentially a B2B training and marketing tool. Check out the wall posts on Facebook.

Web 2.0 50

Web 2.0 Internet Marketing Mobile Marketing Marketing Proposals 50

Paul Gillin

OCTOBER 31, 2011

We would never have thought in the early days of AI how to get 4 million chess players to train a computer. What has changed is that the field is now highly empirical because of all of that data and learning from it. You can do that today. Brooks : Here at MIT, all students take machine learning because it’s that important.

Barriers 50

Barriers Google Differentiation Research 50

Paul Gillin

JANUARY 16, 2012

IBM Connections was installed out of the box and made available without formal training. “There aren’t enough doctors and nurses trained to take care of a critically ill child. IBM Connections as installed out of the box and made available without formal training.

Enterprise Management 50

Enterprise Management Work Management Social Networks Ideal Customer Profiles 50

Paul Gillin

JUNE 9, 2011

Marketers often ask how they can train engineers and technical people to blog, podcast and otherwise engage in deep online conversations with customers. It’s a lot harder and costlier to train technology experts to write than it is to teach writers what they need to know to about technology. My advice: don’t bother.

BtoB 50

BtoB Burn Rate Blogger Sample 50

Paul Gillin

OCTOBER 31, 2011

As Watson is training on prior questions and answers, it’s balancing those inputs and learning how to weight the possibilities. In health care, you don’t have as much training data and the input is not just a small graph. It’s not enough to assign semantics to a sentence.

Ad Building 50

Ad Building Buzz Domain FAQ 50

Paul Gillin

JANUARY 17, 2012

The 10-week employee orientation process there is more like a boot camp than a training course, he said. Taylor also sang the praises of USAA, an insurance company that solely serves military customers. New recruits wear 65-lb. backpacks to simulate the working conditions of a infantry soldier and eat military rations.

Enterprise Management 50

Enterprise Management Transparency Social Networks Barriers 50

Paul Gillin

DECEMBER 30, 2013

Profitecture is a small start up that provides social media training to B2B companies and their channel partners, and I’m happy to be a founding associate. In reality, I don’t blog very much at paulgillin.com anymore. Much of my recent work has appeared on the Profitecture blog.

Blogger 50

Blogger BtoB Paid Search Agency Companies 50

Paul Gillin

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Brynjolfsson : So what skills should we be training people for? Autor : Germany has done a good job by training for needed skills and by reducing wages and increasing flexibility. Levy : When you’re talking about a lack of training for people oer 30, you also have to look at where we are in training people under 18.

Enterprise Management 50

Enterprise Management Training Work Management Education 50