Archive for the ‘Networking’ Category
All I Can Jet (a.k.a. Social Networking anytime before circa 1994)
The folks at JetBlue woke up one day last year and said, stop the presses!! We’ve got an idea. Let’s sell a pass where in a typically slow time of travel, for a fixed fee, customers can fly ALL THAT THEY WANT for 30 days.
They called it the All You Can Jet (AYCJ) pass. They sold out several days early. This year, they brought it back. They’ve got quite the social engagement of people on their Facebook page for All You Can Jet.
I had some travel I needed to do for Doba in Sept; specifically, attend the Shop.org Annual Summit in Dallas and meet with some business partners in the Bay Area,
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Social Media Thoughts & Charity Tweetup at Sundance
What is social media?
Well, first of all, media is a medium to share information; to share stories if you will. In the early years of human history, the media was the spoken word. That’s how stories were shared.
Fast forward to 2009, and the media has changed. Text, photos, audio, video. Drastically changed by significant technology innovations over hundreds of years, with that pace of change accelerating and accelerating in the last 20 years.The other component is the social one. Again, because of technology, and mostly because of the connecting nature of the worldwide network we call the Internet, people can now use these changed mediums to communicate and share in ways previously not possible.To be honest, I don’t
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Meeting and Networking With Other CEOs
Last week I received an e-mail message from Paul Hutchinson, a managing member of Bridge Loan Capital Fund, inviting me to a networking dinner with other CEOs and company founders from around my area. Paul found me because of an award Doba recently received from the Utah Valley Entrepreneurial Forum (UVEF), and he wrote to encourage me to attend the dinner because of the possibility of being invited to participate in what he called an ‘exclusive executive retreat’ in the spring of 2007 with other world-class CEOs.
My idea of an executive retreat is a little different than most CEOs. As I wrote back on the 5th of June, when Doba takes its Management Team out for retreats, nary a word
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