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The Social Engineer · 3W ago

Influencer Measurement: What does it mean?

Over the past couple of weeks, I have noted an increasing fever pitch of discussion on Klout, Kred and PeerIndex - and how the concepts of measuring influence is both good and bad, the potential downfall of society, an enviable outcome of a more open, transparent community (great one Nick!) and so o
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The Social Engineer · 1M ago

Politics in a World of Social Data - who knows what about whom?

This past month, I have been reading Eli Parser's "The Filter Bubble" on my iPad Kindle app - and I must say, Eli has done a bang up job of discussing the impact the Filter Bubble can and will have on our political and intellectual discourse.As I continue to work on the problem of "influence marketi
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The Social Engineer · 4M ago

Have we short-changed ourselves by removing the draft?

About a month ago, I was having a conversation with a friend about the perceived state of younger workers. The refrain I heard was how the new employees were not prepared and often seemed to want to extend their college days into the work life. Two weeks later, one of my mentors was discussing how
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The Social Engineer · 6M ago

Dell Hell 2011 - the problem of telephone sales in the UK

Taking a page out of Jeff's Dell Hell post, I thought I might share one of my pet peeves with Dell - especially in the UK.One of the things I most hate about Indian call centres is the lack of understanding of the sales process.  The call centre seems to have to operate on a strict chain of command,
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The Social Engineer · 6M ago

Influence, Authority or Word-of-Mouth?

For the past week, I have been watching a bunch of folks discuss the changes to Klout's algorithm and have been amused at the concerns people have had.  I should tell you that my Klout score has dropped from an average of 57 to an average of 49 - with variations in between.And whilst I work as the C
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The Social Engineer · 7M ago

Kred Presents at PIVOT

So, last week, I spent a short amount of time at the Crown Plaza while Brian Solis and gang put on the PIVOT Conference. As the CTO of PeerIndex, a provider in the Influencer Marketing space, I was quite interested in hearing about what others were talking about in the influencer space. To that end
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The Social Engineer · 8M ago

Samsung Galaxy Note - think Apple will have a problem?

Seems as though Samsung came out with their "tabphone" and it looks cool - but why describe the screen as "HD Super AMOLED"? Hey Samsung Marketing folk - think of a better way of describing things...
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The Social Engineer · 9M ago

Apple v Samsung - why the hubbub?

A few friends asked me to clarify what I was talking about on Bloomberg this morning regarding the Samsung v Apple "War" - which I thought was quite a quaint way of putting things. The basic story is this (for anyone not part of the "technosphere"): Apple has filed a lawsuit against Samsung in vario
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The Social Engineer · 1Y ago

Too hard on the City for their "Roadmap"? Here are some thoughts...

So, the past weekend, I have had a number of people talk to me about my post on the Roadmap and how I was quite disappointed. For the most part, people were in agreement with my sentiments and we similarly disappointed in what was published. But one has to wonder, why did the Roadmap so disappoint
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The Social Engineer · 1Y ago

Grading the "Road Map for the Digital City"

When I got the alert that Rachel and Mayor Mike were announcing the Road Map for the Digital City and the associated Roadmap (PDF) for it, I typed the URL in my browser with the enthusiasm of a starving man to food on the table. After being part of the discussions for the 2008 NY Tech Meetup Organi
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