Here is a 30 minute video of Dave Gray talking about “the connected company”, a theme with which you will be very familiar from Humanize. Dave is founder of XPLANE, a visual thinking company, and a partner in the Dachis Group, a social business consultancy. You may also know his recent book Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers , which is all about innovative facilitation techniques based on game mechanics. Here’s an excerpt from a related blog post : “I’ve noticed some troubling trends lately in the business world. photo credit ). MORE >>

Edelman , a global PR firm, recently released an infographic highlighting the best practices of social media marketing on Pinterest. This is an excellent supplement to an earlier post on our blog, Pinterest: Early Best Practices From Firebelly. Are there any additional best practices that you would include? MORE >>

Four years ago, I was invited to do my very first webinar. It was for Vistage and it launched my speaking career. I’ll never forget the very fist speaking engagement I did for them. It was in Washington, D.C. was 30 minutes late to the meeting because I got lost and traffic was worse than I expected. Then, when I arrived, they didn’t have a projector or screen. So I had to talk from slides on my laptop. That includes having something with your contact information to actually hand us.” ” To say I’ve gotten better is putting it mildly. And you know what? But today? MORE >>

Tweet. We are all very familiar with Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. But the term “Social media” is an umbrella that covers much, much more. Multiple channels, multiple tools as well as multiple utilisation possibilities. The task is to figure out when to use what, and what purpose and outcome you have in mind. On Friday, businessinsider.com presented the Buddy Media infographic of the social media marketing landscape as of today. Though introduced as “insanely confusing”, we see the infographic differently. If you know which ones to use when, that is. Perfection is about Selection. MORE >>

This is the handbook that the National office of the Red Cross share with their local units (like chapters). Pretty self-explanatory and definitely awesome. View this document on Scribd. ———— ( photo credit ). Content Strategy From the Trenches Implementation Open Community MORE >>