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Re: 3 Reasons to Care About Social CRM—and One Not to

Brad Young — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 06:34:42 -0000

I agree it is really all just CRM but the big challenge is to move beyond the rhetoric of 'big data', 'social', etc to make each channel really deliver actionable insight. I think we are sucked in by 'one off' stories of brands interacting with individuals to delight them but this isn't sustainable for every single customer. So how do you operationalise it?

Re: Do Innovation Consultants Kill Innovation?

Brad Young — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:12:15 -0000

I think there is a good observation here on the number of consultants jumping on this trend. However there are the consultant that just blather on about the process, and ones that do go deeper and offer real insight into operationally how product innovation processes are more successful in some companies more than others. This level of analysis takes the magic away and can help to make real recommendations for change. Problem is that most consultants fall in the first category because it is of course easier.

Re: List of Trends, Ideas, Predictions for 2012

Brad Young — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:07:59 -0000

great list! The longest I've seen. Great work

Re: Jobs’s passing and fear of stalled innovation prompt Apple to enter Israel, former exec says

Brad Young — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:34:14 -0000

This doesn't make sense. Moving into a new market like this would have been on their radar a long time ago.

Re: The Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators

Brad Young — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 12:22:55 -0000

Very interesting. I have also published some thoughts innovation skills over here - http://www.theinnovatorsjou...

Re: http://karishma.me/post/10241218926

Brad Young — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 07:45:49 -0000

Really a great capture - well done

Re: 40 Awesome Free Fonts for Big Headlines

Brad Young — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 08:02:51 -0000

Thanks. A brilliant collection.

Re: Full Width Headers on Fixed Width Websites

Brad Young — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:32:56 -0000

thanks - a good article.

Re: How To Create Stunning Presentations Using Text Images [Mac]

Brad Young — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 11:28:58 -0000

Thanks - simple works best. Steve Jobs built a whole company on it.

Re: Cool Stuff: Carlos Ramos’ Kubrick-Inspired Art Show

Brad Young — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 12:57:16 -0000

Brilliant. I love 'What’s in Room 237?'. Really great stuff. Keep up the good work.

Re: What Brad Did Next

Brad Young — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 12:48:44 -0000

testing my own comment system. Woo hoo.

Re: One in Five Tweets Are Free Brand Advertising

Brad Young — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:53:19 -0000

I'm looking for a service that will take a brand name and show the word density of all other twitter words associated with that word in tweets. So for example Starbucks + sucks(20 hits) vs. Starbucks + tasty(40 hits). Anyone know of something like this?

Re: One in Five Tweets Are Free Brand Advertising

Brad Young — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:51:09 -0000

move house...or just don't visit twitter anymore. Ignorance is bliss.

Re: Bamboo Blog - Upgrading to Rails 2.3 with Git

Brad Young — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:02:14 -0000

thank - a helpful post. Will try it out.

Re: Twave: Google Wave + Twitter

Brad Young — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:13:24 -0000

Great, another way to receive mindless spam tweets from Twitter - the land of the one way conversation.

Re: HOW TO: Get the Most Out of Twitter #Hashtags

Brad Young — Mon, 18 May 2009 15:38:32 -0000

A step towards organising tweet data. A word association service would be cool. Taking a hashtag and branching laterally into related tags to build a broader and more intuitive picture of the subject at hand.

Re: The New York Times, 31 Years From Now

Brad Young — Mon, 11 May 2009 09:06:30 -0000

Maybe social networking is must a fad, and in 31 years we'll be back to print? hhhm.

Re: 100 Great Resources for Design Inspiration

Brad Young — Mon, 11 May 2009 06:41:39 -0000

Thanks, love the links. http://www.whatbraddidnext.com

Re: Typographic Ideas

Brad Young — Thu, 07 May 2009 08:35:31 -0000

Love it! Thanks.

Re: 23 Personal Tools to Learn More About Yourself

Brad Young — Thu, 07 May 2009 06:52:40 -0000

Nice write up. Just added to this on a primer about lifetracking here... http://www.whatbraddidnext....

A good app has to offer:

* The social element - share, view, network, meet like minded people
* An element of voyeurism that makes looking at others' stats intriguing
* A layer of analysis over the raw stats. So I drink 25 cups of water a day? What does that make me?
* Not too techie. Make the statistical side fun and accessible.
* Offer multiple and easy ways to log data. This is the boring side of lifetracking. Going online to tell an app I just had another can of coke is not really compelling and any barrier to logging data is a big turn off.
* Common units of measure. It's great that I can creat my own unit of measure on some apps (e.g. cups of water) but then I can't compare myself to others, which for me is more interesting. It's not ALL about me.
* Auto-logging of life data
* Adding a location-aware dimension will make it really interesting
* Easy to use, of course
* Offer multiple ways to display data - widgets, RSS, etc.
* iPhone integration, naturally

Re: Purported Kindle 2 images and price leaked

Brad Young — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 06:34:14 -0000

If it's announced today, let's track it for a year and see if it sinks...

http://www.nostradamical.co...