 Barry Libert : The World of WE |
 Seven Years of Social Media Business in the Making
When visitors come to Mzinga offices today, they see a building complex with purple and green painted walls, various conference rooms named after board games, and sections of cubicles within what we playfully call, “The Hive.” With about 200 employees today, it's hard to imagine what this com
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Mon, Jul 28 2008 |
Dear Microsoft, Business Apps Are Not the Future of Business
Recently released numbers show fairly solid figures from Microsoft - $60 billion dollars a year in revenue with $15.84 billion for the fiscal fourth quarter. Despite this growth, I find it interesting that I keep observing headlines like the one in today's WSJ that reads, "read more
Fri, Jul 25 2008 |
Three Rules for Building Better Community
I have been building on-line communities for organization since 2001 when I started the company now known as Mzinga. Since then I have learned a lot about what works and what doesn’t in building business and not-for-profit human networks (I'm the wrong guy to
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Wed, Jul 23 2008 |
Back to Blogging: WHY Business Leaders Should Do It and HOW
As much as I hate to admit this, I'm not a great blogger. This is evidenced by the fact that prior to my last post, I hadn't updated this in over a year. I could go on about all of the things that happened that got in the way of posting - things like growing Mzinga into the leading provider of bu
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Fri, Jul 18 2008 |
Summer School: Learning To Be Successful Outside the Classro
Wow, summer is officially here and school is out. Even though students are taking a break from the classroom, many of them are learning new lessons in other environments, in particular, the working world. I've had the opportunity to observe three young individuals who are doin
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Tue, Jul 08 2008 |
Putting the "WE" in Business
I recently spoke to several hundred Fortune 500 Business professionals at the Warrillow Summit in Las Vegas. Below you will find a ten minute clip of the highlights from this keynote. During the video, you'll hear me talk about:
- SCORE - or the construct we use for becoming a &quo
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Fri, Jun 06 2008 |
Facebook or Face to Face Meetings?
Each time I engage in a conversation about communities, I am asked about blogs, discussion forums, podcasts and wikis. What I find interesting is how few ask about the use face-to-face meetings and conference calls in building communities. It is almost as if people believe that as corporat
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Mon, Mar 24 2008 |
My Bad
As someone that has been in the business of "community" for the last 10 years (since I was advocating this at Andersen with their clients), I'm constantly surprised with how fast the "community" market is changing. Just two short years ago, I remember attending one holiday par
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Tue, Nov 14 2006 |
Sell Air, not Haircuts, to Succeed
A long time ago, my friend, who was the CEO of Thomson at the time, said that success accrues to companies that produce products which are consumed like air, not haircuts. Let me clarify what he meant. In short, there two types of businesses:<
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Sat, Sep 02 2006 |
The Future is Now For Us All
I read an interesting article in today’s weekend WSJ. It showed that the future is here when it comes to who owns content, broadcasting,
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Sat, Jul 29 2006 |
