Author Archives: Brian Fanzo

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Back to the Future of Social Business by @RachellouMiller

It’s that time of year when many bloggers start to stare aimlessly into the murky depths of their proverbial crystal balls in hopes of getting glimpses of inspiration that can be artfully crafted into next year prediction statements. But me, I’m going to look to the past and highlight a significant prediction for sales, social media, and customer relationship management that came to fruition.

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Power of Social Media is about Offline People not Networks!

So I ask you to embrace the “Power Of Social” by not focusing on what social network is the best or if you should be using TSU or ELLO, rather seek out conversations and build relationships with people, so that when you meet in real life for the first time, you can experience the feeling I’ve been so fortunate to have many times this year!

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Big Data and Cloud for SMBs starts with Engagement

It’s clear that cloud and big data/analytics is no longer a tool for enterprise only. For small businesses to embrace these tools, they will have to engage and understand their customers and be prepared to make strategic businesses decisions based on data insights. Those decisions have the power to optimize both internal and external processes and provide a significant competitive advantage that will define the businesses of tomorrow.

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Best Social Media Apps on Mobile, Create Content to get Comments & Influencers on #iSocialTalks Ep17

Whats your favorite MOBILE social media tool? What is your favorite app for social media and content on the ipad? How do you create content or curate content to drive engagement and conversations? Do relationships and community have anything to do with how influential an influencer really is for a brand? All this and more answered on the latest episode of #iSocialTalks! Episode 17.

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Personal Branding 101: What’s your story?

Your Personal Brand is who YOU are, YOU must define it, tell YOUR story and share YOUR passions! Combine these answers with your resume and cover letter into a story format and you’ll be ready to jump into Personal Branding 201!

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What’s in store for cloud in 2015? @DavidLinthicum joins #CloudTalk on Oct 16th to share his insights!

When it comes to technology and cloud computing many have an opinion or have written a book on the topic but CloudTalk is honored to have David Linthicum SVP of Cloud Technology Partners as a guest this week who didn’t just write a book on computing he wrote a total of 13 books on computing. David is also an analyst and blogger at GigaOM Pro and InfoWorld and is a speaker and thought leader on everything cloud computing sharing his insights at events, on his podcast and is extremely active on twitter. We couldn’t be more excited to have David as our guest this week to talk with the #CloudTalk Community about the future of the cloud in 2015!