So I had the tables turned on me and this time I ended up in front of the camera in an interview, where Arnie Kuenn from Vertical Measures was interviewing Internet Experts on their predictions for 2010. I was honored to be included in this venerable group and now in 2011 we can go back and look at this video to see how far off I was. Will this be the year of the Droids, is there going to be a mobile blow out, is 2010 the year of location based services, will social gaming take off, will online marketers actually look at the data and start focusing their attentions on the fastest growing sector in Social Media, will there be tighter integration with enterprise application suites, will ROI be the king of Social for Business? Take a look at my interview here:
What do you think, am I completely off? What are your predictions for 2010?
If you want to hear and interact with some amazingly talented people like Arnie, get your ticket for SMAZ – Social Media for business coming up on January 25th in downtown Tempe. BTW, if you’ve read this far you deserve a prize, use the discount code ‘ireadfredsblog’ for 45% off your SMAZ tickets. Full disclosure Vertical Measures is a sponsor for SMAZ along with many other great companies.
On a recent trip to Seattle I got a chance to catch up with my friend Matt Kowalczyk. He’s an entrepreneur that’s working in some fun technology spaces that I thought you’d like to hear about. Like his iPhone application cor.kz that is doing really well. It doesn’t hurt that Apple had it in their ads. So if you’re a wine enthusiast with an iPhone I suggest you go over to cor.kz and give it a try. He’s also developing the SDK for Intel’s Atom platform along with several feature applications being released at CES. If you’re at CES stop by the Intel booth and say Hi to Matt. He’s also got a mobile application development company with heavy ties in to the Social Media space. Oh and lets not forget his non-profit Climb for Kids.
I love some of the projects he’s working on. In fact I’m now in talks with Matt’s company about developing one of my mobile projects as well. What do you think, is Matt a busy guy or what? Got any questions for Matt?
BTW sorry about the dead space at the end of the video, it’s actually only 25 minutes long. For some reason CyberLink PowerDirector 8 is messing up big time.
What better way to start the holidays than to sit down and enjoy a chat with Jason Baer (@JayBaer)? OK there may be a few other ways but this is an interview not to be missed. I recently drove up to Flagstaff to meet with Jason and got a chance to capture this chat on video. I have to share with you that Jason is one of a short list of people that I follow online and I suggest you do the same. You can also find out who Jason follows, his thoughts on where Social Media will be in the future and much more by watching the video. Sit back and enjoy!
Jason also introduced me to Diablo Burger, which is the best open range beef burger I’ve ever had! If you find yourself in Flagstaff and want the best burger and fries ever, now you know where to go! You’ll thank me or perhaps Jason for it.
You can always find Jason over at ConvinceAndConvert.com where he shares his always insightful interviews and posts on Social Media. Jason will also be speaking at our next Social Media for Business (SMAZ) event (January 25th, 2010) in beautiful downtown Tempe, AZ! Use the discount code ‘ConvinceAndConvert’ and you will get 45% off your tickets.
What did you think? If you could ask Jason anything what would it be?
Here’s another entry in my series of talks with companies and agencies that use Social Media. These talks cover how they got in to using Social Media, how they use it today, some of the tools they use, the issues they ran in to and some key learnings they can share. I’m doing this to help you learn what others are doing, get an idea of the challenges that others are facing, help you to connect with new people and hopefully get some conversation and innovation happening.
I got a chance to meet Joey Borane a while back Spark Design had just moved in to their new office in Downtown Tempe. It took a while to get this video posted as I had a RAID on my server fail, so sorry to those of you waiting to see this interview! Joey Borane the Chief Marketing Officer for Spark Design and I talked about their use of Social Media. Watch this video and it becomes apparent that Joey is passionate about and really understands the use of Social Media. He shares some of their experiences with Spark Magazine along with predictions for the future of social technologies. A good guy working for a good company, it’s a pleasure getting to talk with him.
What would you like to ask Joey? What’s your favorite part of the interview?
Until recently I had ATI on my black list, you know that list that you keep of companies or product that you refuse to buy. Well ATI was on that list and has been on it for years now. So a little history and I’ll get to the point I promise. It started with getting my first PC from a place called Showtronics back in 1989. They sold me an over clocked Intel 286 20MHz clocked to 25MHz. That was back when there was a hardware clock selector on the computers called the ‘turbo’ button and VGA was the standard. Well I bought a new video card called the ATI VGA Wonder and a NEC monitor which weighed so much it must have been made of lead. All was right with the world, I stopped using my Atari ST to emulate a PC and I was hacking away in Assembly, PASCAL and whatever else I could get my curious hands on at the time. The ATI worked great and as a result I continued to buy and support ATI as I upgraded and bought new computers. My love affair with ATI changed drastically in the late 90s when I’d bought a newly released ATI video card. Within six months there was a new OS released, so when I went to get the drivers for my practically new ATI video card and found out that they had stopped supporting it. No new drivers were planned so I was stuck with practically new hardware and no way to use it. That was the day ATI got put on my black list and had stayed on that list until late 2009.
Now between the time ATI got black listed and today a lot of things changed. I’d consulted for corporations and governments, had worked for Intel as a manager, I did business development for Avnet and I’d even worked as a VP in Technical Marketing for a while (if you’re really interested just look at my LinkedIn profile). All along ATI remained on my no buy list and influenced my purchasing decisions both for myself and my clients / companies…
Here’s another entry in my series of talks with companies and agencies that use Social Media. These talks cover how they got in to using Social Media, how they use it today, some of the tools they use, the issues they ran in to and some key learnings they can share. I’m doing this to help you learn what others are doing, get an idea of the challenges that others are facing, help you to connect with new people and hopefully get some conversation and innovation happening.
I got a chance to meet Mike and Dave from SpyFu.com while speaking at the BOLO event back in October and really liked their product. So we set up a time for me to talk to their Director of Marketing, Sidra Condron about their use of Social Media.
I would love to see someone develop this! I would be willing to help if someone were serious about making this happen.
The idea is to use the combined wisdom of your friends to block spammers. The idea could certainly be expanded beyond simple user blocking but that’s the main thing I want at this time. [...]
Here’s another entry in my series of talks with companies and agencies that use Social Media. These talks cover how they got in to using Social Media, how they use it today, some of the tools they use, the issues they ran in to and some key learnings they can share. I’m doing this to [...]
Hello there! This is Fred’s wife, Caitlin, taking over his blog for the night. While he’s busy planning the next SMAZ event (and may I say, I’m really getting excited about SMAZ 2 – it’s promising to be another fun and exciting day!), I wanted to reach out to share a little technology problem we’re currently [...]
I’ve started a series of talks with companies and agencies that use Social Media. These talks cover how they got in to using Social Media, how they use it today, some of the tools they use, the issues they ran in to and some key learnings they had along the way. I’m doing this to [...]
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by Fred von Graf on December 4, 2009
Now between the time ATI got black listed and today a lot of things changed. I’d consulted for corporations and governments, had worked for Intel as a manager, I did business development for Avnet and I’d even worked as a VP in Technical Marketing for a while (if you’re really interested just look at my LinkedIn profile). All along ATI remained on my no buy list and influenced my purchasing decisions both for myself and my clients / companies…
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