Generation WV 3rd annual conference

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Last week over 200 young West Virginians and I attended the Generation WV conference in Charleston, WV. The mission of GenWV is to cultivate young leaders (21-45) across the state of West Virginia. Having missed the first two editions, I was excited to attend the sessions, meet new people, and meet a few people I… [Continue Reading]

2010 Technology Tools for Today Conference

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I spent the past four days meeting and networking with advisors and and industry vendors at the 2010 T3 conference at the Torrey Pines Hilton in La Jolla, CA.  My initial expectations for the event were based on the lineup of sessions and vendors, but found out quickly the true conference happens outside the structured… [Continue Reading]

Crowdsourcing, Comments, and Customer Service

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By now I’m sure you’re familiar with the story of Comcast employee Frank Eliason and his Comcast Cares Twitter account.  If you’re not, essentially Frank was one of the first to use Twitter to proactively “listen” for Comcast customers in need of customer service.  You can read more about his story here. Today I was… [Continue Reading]

Create WV 2010 is coming to Wheeling

In October, I attended my first Create West Virginia Conference in Huntington WV.  You can read more about the mission of Create and my experience above. During the conference, I learned that several leaders from the City of Wheeling were very interested in bringing the 2010 conference to Wheeling.  They were planning on meeting soon… [Continue Reading]

Has Social Media Transformed My Life?

I read a post this morning from Bob Bly’s blog Copywriter titled Has Social Media Transformed Your Life.  His post was in response to the book “Socialnomics” by Erik Qualman.  Specifically Erik’s claim that “social media transforms the way we live and do business”.  Bob’s issue is that he can’t think of any examples of… [Continue Reading]