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Stanford Graduate School of Business: The Personalized Web

As consumers are increasingly willing to share more about themselves in return for services, access to contextual information such as a person’s interest, location, and social graph is creating opportunities for richer experiences both online and in the real world.

This panel explores the new business practices these trends are inspiring and engages the audience to learn about how our experiences on the web will become increasingly personalized.

Stanford eweek workshop – Creating and Leading Entrepreneurial Teams

After already 4 sessions on the first day, this was the last one at the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (“d.school”), Building 524 from Dr. Rodrigo Jordan, founder of Vertical S.A. (Leadership expeditions). He was nominated as “one of the 100 young leaders for the new millennium” from Time Magazin in 1995.

First I thought that he is talking a bit too long about his hobby: Climibing on Mount Everest. I had not read the whole text in the program due to the thing that I went from one session to the other. But as I soon recognized this was the main topic: How to build teams with whom you are able to reach the maximum like climbing on Mount Everest or K2.

This was one of the best workshops I had since years. Totally unexpected. The whole audience was totally fascinated and magnetized in the end following his speech and his videos.

Hopefully the will upload the video soon here: http://ecorner.stanford.edu

Until this will happen, here is a short summary out of the program guide:

Nominated by Time magazine in 1995 as “one of the 100 young leaders for the new millennium,” and leader of the first successful South American expedition to Mt Everest and K2, Dr. Rodrigo Jordan will share his philosophy on applying to business and education the leadership and team-building skills needed to climb the world’s most challenging mountains. Through videos and jaw-dropping photographs, he will bring his gripping leadership stories to life. He’ll examine the dynamics of building and leading high-performance teams that produce great social and economic results.

Watch a video clip of Dr. Jordan describing a crisis during the first crossing of the Ellsworth Mountains in Antarctica. He explains how one team member’s optimism in the face of certain death completely transformed his perspective as the team leader and also saved their lives.

Here is a video from Stanford in 2007

And here one from a session at Google:

 

 

In a nutshell: Rodrigo emphasized three dimensions when building up the right team:

1. technical skills

2. personal skills

3. social skills

You should not only focus on the core team but also on the ecosystem and everybody who adds value to reach the objective to change the world.

But his workshop was really excellent and it is not enough to read only this short summary. There was much more to experience!

Steve Case, former founder and CEO of AOL at eweek in Stanford

Steve case, as one of the top events in this week, was talking about the 3 p’s of entrepreneurship: eople, passion and perseverance.
Really interesting speech about his history from the 80′s till the merger of AOL time warner and his new company revolution.

http://www.revolution.com/

Zip car is a very intersting car sharing company in his portfolio: http://www.zipcar.com/

You should watch the whole session, it’s worth the whole hour:

You can follow Steve on Twitter: http://twitter.com/STEVECASE

Stanford Entrepreneurship week 2010 – Robert Scoble, Loic le Meur from Seesmic and MC Hammer

On Monday the 2010 eweek started with the topic Social Technology.

Why the hell did the invite MC Hammer for Social Technology? Ok, he as nearly 2,000,000 Followers on Twitter.

Cash4Gold Super Bowl Ad – Cash 4 GoldAmazing videos are here

In the US he had a very famous super bowl viral video.
Robert Scoble showed that he has 1176 new facebook friend requests and how the new realtime web behaves.

Some recommendations from the panel:

  • Save all marketing an PR budget and hire people who love to Twitter and do everything what you can do with creative social media to create a personal company.
  • In the future all employees should have a Twitter account (I will introduce it when I’m back) and this leads to more trust and credibility, especially for the big corporations.
  • There is still a niche to create a viable business around Twitter
  • Word of mouth is key, also negative comments
  • Answer all comments in person
  • Engage and thank them
  • Use a wiki and a forum and question what you should build next instead of thinking about a roadmap
  • You should create a storyline and give people something to talk about – ok, nothing new since the anatomy of the buzz last year.
  • some more (…)

Mc Hammer was the last speaker and was really funny and explained what he did in the past and why he is a real entrepreneur (he really is).

He did a really social thing: He asked the audience to stand up and introduce themselves to the people next to them.
This was the best what he could have done.
When I see all this bullshit talk about social media and people sitting in starbucks with a macbook. Is this social? Sitting next to each other and talk no more but looking into a technical gadget the whole day?
Social is about talking and communication and not only about writing silly things on Twitter into the endless drain of text, using very meaninglesse acronyms and bad grammar?

Instead of writing a whole summary I will update this post later with the video…

Here you can follow the panel members on Twitter

http://twitter.com/scobleizer

http://twitter.com/Mchammer

http://twitter.com/loic

Vortrag von Emanuel Rosen – The Anatomy of a Buzz (Revised)

Nach einer sehr regnerischen Ankunft in Berkley bin ich nun in Stanford auf dem Campus angekommen und war gerade auf einem Vortrag in Stanford von Emanuel Rozen.  Die Vorlesung hieß: “How to create a buzz?” und Rosen war als Gastdozent am Ende der Vorlesung eingeladen um über “Seven Concepts fo Word of Mouth Marketing” zu sprechen.

Hier mal in der Übersicht die wichtigsten Punkte:

 

1.  Something to start conversation

- passive Bekanntmachung. Keine aktive werbung. Beispiel sind die Facebook Gruppen oder Produkte, wo man “Fan” werden kann.

2. Spread the word

- “Send a friend” Funktion. Am Besten sind die übrigens bei Skype und Facebook, wo man gleich das ganz Adressbuch von Outlook einladen kann.

- Es geht aber auch noch klassisch, indem pdf Dateien zum Ausdrucken mitgeschickt werden. Tom’s Shoes legt beispielsweise noch eine Fahne und einem Aufkleber mit in den Schuhkarton um gleich selbst noch WErbung zu machen

3. Social Hubs / Expert Hubs

- Rosen differenziert die in Deuschland unter dem Namen “Early Adopter” gehandelten Personengruppen noch einmal:

Es gibt “social hubs” wie beispielsweise einen Friseur, der täglich mit vielen Leuten spricht und somit eine Multiplikatorfunktion hat.

“Expert Hubs” sind zum Beispiel it Geeks, die was von der Sache verstehen. Deswegen ist Werbung bei heise.de auch so teuer. Den dort tummeln sich ja die Early Adopters von neuesten IT Technologien, die “Influencers”. Hierfür gibt es noch viele weitere Beispiele.

4.  Have a good story!

- Word of mouth marketing funktioniert nur, wenn man auch etwas interessantes zu erzählen hat – Wieso sollte es auch sonst jemand wiederholen oder erzählen?

- Beispiel war hier: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJ8c5QWsCRQ TOM shoe drop. – Für jeden gekauften Schuh wird Kindern in der dritten Welt ein paar Schuhe geschenkt.

Krombacher macht das in Deutschland so mehr oder weniger nach: Trink jeden Tag einen Kasten Bier und du rettest den Regenwald. Ist nicht ganz so gut, aber mann hat ein gutes Gefühl beim Fussball schauen noch etwas für die Umwelt zu tun.

5. Involvement/ Self Expression

- Drückt das ganze noch eine moralische Überzeugung aus. Tut man damit etwas Gutes?

6. Surprise

Siehe auch: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_ironing

- Gibt es hier wirklich etwas neues oder lustiges?

 - Können Nutzer das ganze nachmachen. Stichwort: Youtube “Video Answer”

- Sehr gut um Multiplikatoreffekte zu erreichen

7. Mass Media

- Die Nutzung von Massenmedien ist nicht zu unterschätzen.

- Im Gegensatz zu den ganzen Viral Marketingagenturen widerspricht Rosen, dass Massenmedien nichts bringen. 55% der Leute sprechen einmal pro Tag über eine neue Werbung oder über eine TV Sendung. Die Platzierung eines Produkts, zum Biepsiel in einer zur Zielgruppe passenden Soap, ist nicht zu verachten.

Hier noch eine deutsche Kurzzusammenfassung des alten Buchs:

 

http://www.connectedmarketing.de/downloads/connectedmarketing.de_anatomy-of-buzz.pdf

 

Hier noch eine Präsentation bei Slideshare vom Januar 2009:

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