You’ll enjoy #Attenzi: it’s far more than just a good read

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Philip Sheldrake‘s new business book Attenzi is published today. Earlier today, I published an FIR Book Review of it as I’d had the opportunity of reading it prior to formal publication. I don’t do many book reviews these days – our FIR Book Reviews Editor, Bob LeDrew, does an admirable and far better job – [...]

FIR Book Review: Attenzi – A Social Business Story, by Philip Sheldrake

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Attenzi – A Social Business Story is a novel that shines a light on social business that goes beyond the all too typical homages to social media. It’s a relatively short and easy read intended to help readers explore what social business means for their organization, marketplace, communities and career. With Attenzi, author Philip Sheldrake [...]

Creating a new model PR agency that’s fit for purpose

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Over the weekend, I read the best essay about public relations agencies and their potential future that I’ve read in a very long time. Penned by Paul Holmes – he of The Holmes Report and the SABRE Awards – “10 Ways To Design The PR Agency Of The Future” offers a compelling vision of how [...]

Hanging out at LeWeb London in June 2013

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Last year at both LeWeb conferences in London and Paris,  I joined in live discussions for some of the sessions and with presenters via Google Hangout On Air. Being parachuted-in this way not only let me be part of things from afar but also showed what is possible today to expand an event’s horizons dramatically [...]

Kred wants to take influence measurement to a new level

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“We all have influence somewhere” is the tag line of Kred, a social influence measurement service created by PeopleBrowsr, a San Francisco-based social media analytics company, to identify influential people in interest-based communities. It’s a credible descriptor to apply to a service that, on the one hand, provides individuals with metrics to show the measurable [...]

GE’s six dimensions of leadership

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A drum that many communicators bang a lot – I do it, too – is the one that tries to get your attention on the view that an essential role of leadership in organizations is that of communication. I’m not talking about the kind of stuff that many CEOs will do: the employee email, the [...]

FIR Interview: Allan Schoenberg, CME Group, on social media and the futures industry

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A strategic approach to planning and implementing social media initiatives has played a significant and measurable role in enabling the CME Group to claim a position that is ahead of the curve when it comes to using social media among financial exchanges. The world’s largest future exchanges and owner of the Dow Jones stock and [...]

Three business issues for your attention in 2013

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A New Year has dawned and even though full-ahead work isn’t what everyone is doing yet – wait until next week for that – our thoughts clearly are tuning in to what the coming weeks and months hold and what we need to do. As surely as the New Year arrived just after midnight on [...]

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