Posts tagged cio

A quick observation in education

What my kids teach me is the use of a product or service can go beyond what I conceive it to be, therefore I must always keep an open mind.

Social Media A CIO View

Social What?
Social Media, Social Networking, or Social Business as I prefer to call it. The name itself doesn’t really matter but the end goal is clear, for business users the ultimate goal doesn’t change, impact to the bottom line. The dot com era taught us that the models may change but the fundamentals of [...]

Chapter 5 – CIO to Marketing Guy

This will be my final posting on this journey topic, not because it’s done but because I am now getting into the tree’s of this, what I learn will refine and change, part of that I want to keep private, other parts aren’t germain to this story.
As a wrap up here are some of the [...]

Chapter 4 – CIO to Marketing Guy

Chapter 4 is all about my first lesson on social marketing.
When I began this journey I thought there were 2 types of marketing; email and social
Reality there are numerous, commonly divided into;

Email Marketing (Push)
Adword Marketing (Pull)
Social Marketing (Pull)

We are all familiar with email, or the spam it creates in some cases. There are many sub [...]

Chapter 3 – CIO to Marketing Guy

It has been a while since I posted my last installment in this story, sorry to all that may be following it.
In the first installment in this series I introduced the concept and how I was brought into this evolving role as Marketing Guy. Just for clarity I have not abandoned my role as CIO [...]

Chapter 2 – CIO to Marketing Guy

In the first instalment in this series I introduced the concept and how I was brought into this evolving role as Marketing Guy. Just for clarity I have not abandoned my role as CIO type, I have added the marketing to it.
I started with 3 major challenges;

Learn to be open to social networks versus my [...]

From CIO to Marketing Guy!

From CIO to Marketing Guy!
This is a reprint from my own personal blog, this series is a primer that will help you understand a new piece I will be publishing on a CIO’s view on Social Media
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This is the first in a series of posts I will share my journey from CIO type to partner [...]

Shifting the Mindset of IT to Cause Transformation in Business

The title for this post came from a speech presented by Steve Rosenthal, Vice President, Gap International, you can read his Bio here.
Shifting the Mindset of IT to Cause Transformation in Business
While I was at the east coast Midsize Enterprise Summit in Boca Ration, Fl. Steve presented this topic. Here is my perspective on his [...]

Day Three (final) at Midsize Enterprise Summit

The third and final day has come to a close as I write this. This years event is wrapping up about a 1/2 day earlier than it used to, that is OK as it enables us all to travel home for some rest .
Day Three
The third and final day had many of the same [...]

Day Two at Midsize Enterprise Summit

For any tweeters out there the hash tag to follow the live tweets for this event is #ecmes
Day Two
WOW what a full day, starting at 6am I needed to get my daily work out in, by 8am I was in the first keynote, by 10:30pm my day finally ended, here in summary was that day…
Morning [...]

Day One at Midsize Enterprise Summit

Day One from Boca Raton, Florida at the Midsize Enterprise Summit (MES) event.
The MES event is a unique event in that it has a number of unique characteristics that determine why I make room for this event each year on my calendar. The leaders on this list are an opportunity to network with 300-400 of [...]