The Tom Parish Inc. Blog and Activity Stream

Last night, very late, I received my Google Wave Beta invitation. This morning I'm sending out invitations. Google Wave isn't much fun to use by yourself. It's like using chat by yourself. You just sit there and stare at it waiting for someone to come online.

I've sent 4 invitations out in the last hour and none of those people say they 'see' the invitation coming through. So more soon.

I just love new major releases like this. I have four more invitations left and I suspect they will go quickly.

More to come.

Tom

Here is a sampling of the video podcast interviews I've done for BMC.com.  More to come in the next couple of months.

Whether you are a chief information officer or a chief marketing officer, you need to know how to leverage technology, especially social media, to understand how customers perceive your brand both positively and negatively, and what changes you need to make to your products to get more positive responses. You have the challenge of influencing 1,000s of daily online conversations you can’t control. After all, these aren’t your conversations. Dave Evans, a social media strategist and author of Social Media Marketing – an Hour a Day, says that you need to create an external social media experience that your customers will talk about in a way that invokes others to buy your products. He adds, “This is a big change from asking your advertising agency to change the message because customers’ aren’t getting it."

Despite the economy, Austin, Texas, has seen a spike in major businesses, such as google.com and Hewlett-Packard, moving into the area, as well as more people relocating there to find jobs. Meanwhile, Austin Energy, the nation’s ninth largest community-owned electric utility, is making sure it can meet the power demands of its one million residential customers and 41,000 businesses, and continues to return more than $1.5 billion in profits back to the community. This is my second interview with Andres. He's informative and and a joy to engage in conversation.

If you're keen on knowing what's going on locally but not so keen on getting a paper everday, then go take a look at the new Austin American Stateman iPhon app. I'm just now downloading and testing it out.  Search for 'Stateman' and it will show up.  It's got possibility.  Very forward thinking of the folks at the Statesman.

Tom

   

Click here to download:

Austin_American_Statesman_Rele.zip (120 KB)

If you're keen on knowing what's going on locally but not so keen on getting a paper everday, then go take a look at the new Austin American Stateman iPhon app. I'm just now downloading and testing it out.  Search for 'Stateman' and it will show up.  It's got possibility.  Very forward thinking of the folks at the Statesman.

   

Click here to download:

Austin_American_Statesman_Rele.zip (120 KB)