SocialDevCamp 2010 brings the Chicago Tech community together

Submitted by Alex on Mon, 08/16/2010 - 16:29

Over the weekend we volunteered for and attended the Social Dev Camp Event at the IIT campus on the south side of Chicago. It was awesome. 300 plus developers, journalists, entrepreneurs, investors, not for profit and industry leaders assembled to share their experiences and learn from each other. It was a packed 2 day schedule including presentations, unconference sessions, networking and a hackathon.

The speakers/panels were a mix of high profile executives such as Andrew Mason (Groupon), Ben Huh (The Cheezburger Network) and Chis Messina (Google) and the cream of Chicago based talent such as Pek Pongpaet, Alex Bratton, Chris Pautsch, Ravi Singh and Pete Simon.

Who would you like to have dinner with?

Submitted by Alex on Thu, 08/05/2010 - 12:34

Over the last 5 months we have asked this question to over 350 people. The top 5 answers were:

1. President Lincoln

2. President Obama

3. Leonardo DaVinci

4. Albert Einstein

5. Warren Buffett

Internal Communication Weaves at Comcast

Submitted by cas on Thu, 08/05/2010 - 09:50

Read how Comcast internal communications team worked with Weave The People to align leaders to a common set of values:

Comcast Weave Case Study Article

This article shares a story of how we opened up the conversations at a key face-to-face meeting and helped "build the pillars of relationship". In the article you will read about collaboration, measurement, feedback and overcoming obstacles to achieve a valuable payoff.

Thank you Kelly and Marc from simply-communicate.com for sharing our story and all your wonderful work in supporting the internal communications professional community.

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An Engaging Day with the President

Submitted by cas on Wed, 07/07/2010 - 16:49

Paul and the President

Last week I was fortunate enough to meet President Obama and I am excited to blog about my experience! I will keep it personal not political and as I share my story, I will weave in 4 lessons on effective engagement.

The lessons are about: the power of face-to-face meeting; how questions are key to engagement; the value of acknowledging the place where you are; and how relationships make amazing things possible.

Gen. Patraeus on effective leadership and strategy

Submitted by Alex on Mon, 06/28/2010 - 12:36

I recently attended a Q&A session with General David Patraeus at The Chicago Council of Global Affairs and wanted to share an interesting point he made regarding a lesson he has learned that apply to the private sector.

One of the 1,800 people who attended asked him to define strategic leadership.

Weaving the US Senate

Submitted by Alex on Mon, 05/24/2010 - 15:54

As we speak to more and more people, we have discovered that Weaves can be applied in many situations. As part of a new series of Weaves, we will be building a wide variety of demonstrations to illustrate what we can do.

How to make your conference a more social experience.

Submitted by Alex on Tue, 04/13/2010 - 10:24

A couple of recent blog posts by Chris Brogan and Scott Gould on the subject of conferences made us stop and think about how we fit into the range of actions that make a successful conference or meeting. We have been talking to many conference and corporate meeting planners in the last few months and the feedback seems to revolve around some common themes:

Share Stories to Deliver Results

Submitted by cas on Fri, 04/02/2010 - 09:18

I was on a call with some meeting planners this week and they shared with me that meeting attendees want more than they did several years ago.

Delivering Results Counts.
Inspiring Keynotes are no longer enough.

These days people, often with more work to do than ever, are looking for practical advice and tools they can apply to their projects when they return to the office, inspirational keynotes are no longer enough to satisfy the needs of today's meeting attendees.

Measuring ROI of Engagement

Submitted by Alex on Wed, 01/27/2010 - 16:52

Since joining the team I've been thinking about how the effect of a Weave can be measured.

How do you measure the ROI of engagement?

What is the ROI of a TED conference?

A study released in September 2009 by Oxford Economics USA claims to be the first to measure the ROI of face to face events in the context of business travel.

It came to some interesting conclusions:

Both executives and business travelers estimate that 18% of current business would be lost without in-person meetings
Both executives and business travelers estimate that roughly 40% of their prospective customers are converted to new customers with an in-person meeting compared to 16% without such a meeting
More than half of business travelers stated that 5-10% of their company’s new customers were the result of trade show participation

Weave Overview Prezi

Submitted by cas on Tue, 12/22/2009 - 12:00